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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.
Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them, Filling an emptiness we don't even know we have.
All top international athletes wake up in the morning feeling tired and go to bed feeling very tired.
The wall! Your success is on the other side. Can't jump over it or go around it. You know what to do.
Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.
I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
Nobody gets to pick their time to die, but living every day to the max is something we all get to do.
There is something fundamentally wrong in treating the Earth as if it were a business in liquidation.
But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?
There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.
When your back is against the wall, there is only one thing to do, and that is turn around and fight.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
Every idea that strengthens you must be taken up and every thought that weakens you must be rejected.
Where you are is a result of who you were, but where you go depends entirely on who you choose to be.
Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
No matter who you are, no matter what you do, you absolutely, positively do have the power to change.
You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.
People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation.
We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
Success is one thing you can't pay for. You buy it on the installment plan and make payments everyday.
If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth.
The moment a man ceases to progress, to grow higher, wider and deeper, then his life becomes stagnant.
A person really doesn't become whole, until he becomes a part of something that's bigger than himself.
It is our attitude toward life that determines life's attitude toward us. We get back what we put out.
I always tell the kids, You know what's great about going the extra mile? There's very little traffic.
It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.
Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog.
Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.
How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness.
I can't very well tell my batters don't hit it to him. Wherever they hit it, he's there anyway (Mays).
When you win, you don't get carried away. But if you go step by step, with confidence, you can go far.
Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
Every single person I know who is successful at what they do is successful because they love doing it.
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
Everybody does the things that top people do occasionally. Top people do these things all of the time.
It doesn't matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything is personal power.
Being in school is the best place to be if you are an athlete because you can structure your own time.
Nothing is impossible. With so many people saying it couldn't be done, all it takes is an imagination.
If you don't think you can do it, who will? You control the most important tool in success, your mind.
If the house is to be set in the order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past