Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you’re advancing. If you don’t you’re as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn’t there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

If I see something sagging, bagging or dragging I’ll get it nipped, tucked or sucked.

I’m sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.

Everything is subject to change except God Himself.

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

Success has always been a great liar.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations – if you become aligned with it, something good will emerge from that.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, – till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

At one point, I didn’t care. Now I want as many people to hear my music as possible.

I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

I already am a product.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

The gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

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.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

A man’s own manner and character is what most becomes him.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States – that is, prosperity.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.