Believe in yourself, listen to your gut, and do what you love.
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don’t trust enough.
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.
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.
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
Evening is a time of real experimentation. You never want to look the same way.
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
True love doesn’t happen right away; it’s an ever-growing process. It develops after you’ve gone through many ups and downs, when you’ve suffered together, cried together, laughed together.
Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.
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.
I ain’t giving up on myself, so if you give up on me, I ain’t got nothing else to say for you.
If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.
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.
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.
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
Everything you can imagine is real.
You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
The word ‘racism’ is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything – and demanding evidence makes you a ‘racist.’
Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that’s beautiful.
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
The mind is everything. What you think you become.
If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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.
If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say ‘thank you?’
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
When you cease to dream you cease to live.
As long as you keep going, you’ll keep getting better. And as you get better, you gain more confidence. That alone is success.
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.
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.
Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.
The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
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.
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.
Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
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.
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
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.
Suicide is man’s way of telling God, ‘You can’t fire me – I quit.’
My mama always used to tell me: ‘If you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for.’
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.
Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone’s spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that’s beautiful to me.
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no point in being a damn fool about it.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
It’s about you. If you win, it’s you; if you lose, it’s you. Black and white. Nowhere to hide.
If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one.
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
Life isn’t black and white. It’s a million gray areas, don’t you find?
Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
Nobody can predict the future. You just have to give your all to the relationship you’re in and do your best to take care of your partner, communicate and give them every last drop of love you have. I think one of the most important things in a relationship is caring for your significant other through good times and bad.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Don’t try to be what you’re not. If you’re nervous, be nervous. If you’re shy, be shy. It’s cute.
You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.
If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
