You Quotes by Henry Ford, Jim Lovell, John Barrow, Mitch Hedberg, George Bernard Shaw, Elbert Hubbard and many others.
Things are beautiful if you love them.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
You’re going to go through tough times – that’s life. But I say, ‘Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.’ See the positive in negative events.
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven‘t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.
It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
You know what’s funny to me? Attitude.
Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that’s when you’re most beautiful.
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.
I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn’t matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.
Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.
Only the disciplined ones in life are free. If you are undisciplined, you are a slave to your moods and your passions.
You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.
If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.
You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that’s where you’ll find success – on the far side of failure.
May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
It’s really not about what you have. It’s about how you’re able to enjoy life in general.
If you’re going through hell, keep going.
If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time – a tremendous whack.
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.
Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.
Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you.
I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.
Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
A good restaurant is like a vacation; it transports you, and it becomes a lot more than just about the food.
You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.
He who angers you conquers you.
Unless you have bad times, you can’t appreciate the good times.
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
You may delay, but time will not.
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
True friends stab you in the front.
Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
As long as you keep going, you’ll keep getting better. And as you get better, you gain more confidence. That alone is success.
Nothing will work unless you do.
I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.
If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.
If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.
You can tell alot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jellybeans.
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.
To become ‘unique,’ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.
Live the life you’ve dreamed.
You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas.
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.
You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.
I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
If you are a chef, no matter how good a chef you are, it’s not good cooking for yourself; the joy is in cooking for others – it’s the same with music.
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
Once you label me you negate me.
Don’t Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.
I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you’re on it.
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
Like what you do, and then you will do your best.
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.
Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
If you are in a beautiful place where you can enjoy sunrise and sunset, then you are living like a lord.
Do what you need to do and enjoy life as it happens.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you’ll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you’ll find that you have more of it.
Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going to fast – you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give – pleasure, possessions, power – but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.
Life is really not easy, we all have our personal battles, but it is important that you really treasure yourself, love yourself and have a sense of self-worth.
Life is too short to do the things you don’t love doing.
Your dreams are what define your individuality. They have the power to give you wings and make you fly high.
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
The journey is never ending. There’s always gonna be growth, improvement, adversity; you just gotta take it all in and do what’s right, continue to grow, continue to live in the moment.
If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
I don’t tell people, ‘You’re okay the way that you are.’ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‘You’re way less than you could be.’
I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.
Believe in yourself and believe in your dreams. Follow them, never give up, that’s the most important thing. If you believe you can get there, then one day you will.
The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live.
The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence.
With consistency and reps and routine you’re going to achieve your goals and get where you want to be.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.
If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
I think you create your own hipness.
Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.
You can really only enjoy life when you’re extremely busy.
Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.
Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.
Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent‘s fate.
See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.
You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
When you forgive, you in no way change the past – but you sure do change the future.
I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.
Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.
You’re only as good as your last haircut.
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
If you believe in yourself anything is possible.
The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.
You can’t fix stupid.
A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Do all you can to make your dreams come true.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.
Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.
Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.
Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
You can lead a man to Congress, but you can’t make him think.
I think it’s important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state – meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.
Power is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.
If you aim at nothing, you’ll hit it every time.
When you cease to dream you cease to live.
You can observe a lot by just watching.
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.
Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.
Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.
There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.
The greatest gift of leadership is a boss who wants you to be successful.
You never know God is all you need until God is all you have.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
Enjoy the journey and try to get better every day. And don’t lose the passion and the love for what you do.
Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
Most importantly, if you feel sexy, you look sexy.
I do believe in the old saying, ‘What does not kill you makes you stronger.’ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.
When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It’s all a matter of perspective.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon… must inevitably come to pass!
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.
You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut.
You can’t win unless you learn how to lose.
Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.
Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.
No matter what you’re going through, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you’ll find the positive side of things.
My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you’re ugly too.
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you.
The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.
Be not afraid of discomfort. If you can’t put yourself in a situation where you are uncomfortable, then you will never grow. You will never change. You’ll never learn.
Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday‘s success or put its failures behind and start over again. That’s the way life is, with a new game every day, and that’s the way baseball is.
To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.
It’s nice to just embrace the natural beauty within you.
You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.
As you think, so shall you become.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
You can’t respect yourself if you’re afraid to be who you are.
You’re not looking for perfection in your partner. Perfection is all about the ego. With soulmate love, you know that true love is what happens when disappointment sets in – and you’re willing to deal maturely with these disappointments.
Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.
Never give up. There are always tough times, regardless of what you do in anything in life. Be able to push through those times and maintain your ultimate goal.
Work hard for what you want because it won’t come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.
Sometimes in life, you have to make a selfish decision and do what’s best for you.
At the end of the day, you can’t control the results; you can only control your effort level and your focus.
You are the music while the music lasts.
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
Some people say I have attitude – maybe I do… but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there.
You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.
Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.
You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.
Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
If you do what you love, it is the best way to relax.
If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution.
Love yourself for who you are, and trust me, if you are happy from within, you are the most beautiful person, and your smile is your best asset.
If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say ‘thank you?’
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
May you live all the days of your life.
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
The attitude is very important. Because, your behavior radiates how you feel.
Be as you wish to seem.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Keep going and keep believing and do what makes you feel good. And when you feel good and get to the point where no-one can take that from you, then that feeling will the best feeling.
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Fitness is not about being better than someone else… It’s about being better than you used to be.
You don’t have to be naked to be sexy.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.
The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples’ money.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.
If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.
Only you can control your future.
I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.
The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.
If you can’t do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Your personality is what makes you sexy.
I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I’m like, ‘My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don’t have it. I just want to chill.’ We all have self-doubt. You don’t deny it, but you also don’t capitulate to it. You embrace it.
Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
Doing voiceovers is so great because even though many people would think it’s just your voice, you really do use all your physicality. I’ve done everything from playing a butterfly to Alice in Wonderland when she’s 10 feet tall, so it allows you to be an actor and build new characters.
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A ‘you can do it’ when things are tough.
There are a lot of pros and cons about social media; it’s just how you choose to handle it and how you have to be prepared for the negatives as well.
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
With confidence, you have won before you have started.
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.
Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.
Choose to focus your time, energy and conversation around people who inspire you, support you and help you to grow you into your happiest, strongest, wisest self.
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.
Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
I’m selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I’m out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.
I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Sometimes things don’t go your way, but you get up and keep going.
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
You usually have to wait for that which is worth waiting for.
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
Everything you can imagine is real.
If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
Don’t let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don’t like them.
Catch on fire and people will come for miles to see you burn.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.
If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.
Art is anything you can get away with.
If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride – and never quit, you’ll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.
Show me a good loser, and I’ll show you a loser.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day. That’s a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you’re going to have something special.
If you’re not cheating, you’re not trying.
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about.
The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time.
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.
With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.
Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
You just have to take a deep breath, relax and let the game come to you.
If you learn something new every day, you can teach something new every day.
There will always be obstacles and challenges that stand in your way. Building mental strength will help you develop resilience to those potential hazards so you can continue on your journey to success.
Wherever you are – be all there.
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
My mama always used to tell me: ‘If you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for.’
It’s always great to engage with people. You never know who you can make an effect on. And I love interacting with the fans, hearing what they have to say and joking around with them. Anytime I can reach out online and give encouragement, motivate people, be a better citizen, that’s what it’s all about, man.
You only live once and you need to enjoy life, to go out and achieve whatever you want to.
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.
There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone’s spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that’s beautiful to me.
That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don’t be into trends. Don’t make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
Don’t forget to tell yourself positive things daily! You must love yourself internally to glow externally.
Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.
