There will always be people in your life who treat you wrong. Be sure to thank them for making you strong.

Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.

F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours.

There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.

If you were given the chance to be reborn after your death, buy you could only come back as a squirrel, would you complain?

The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God and that alters my view of actual things.

Enthusiasm is the power that transfers the mental blueprint into the physical dimension.

No one runs fast without an extreme amount of training. Like today, you see kids walking around dribbling a basketball. I had a bag with track shoes in it, and I used to go to the track every day.

The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.

Is a novel anything but a trap set for a hero?

We lose many things simply out of our fear of losing them.

In Canada... we should be there for the nurses, cause they are always there for us.

Goodness . . . You got to make it out of badness . . . Because there isn't anything else to make it out of.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?