It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

When I’m in management meetings when we’re deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I’m the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That’s the part of my life where I feel most in control.

I thought I couldn’t make a difference because I was too small.

We should not underestimate ourselves, because if lots of individuals go together then we can accomplish almost anything.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

I’m a big believer in doing things that make you uncomfortable. So, we live in a world where we want to be as comfortable as we can. And we wonder why we have no growth. We wonder why – when the smallest thing in our life gets difficult – we wonder why we cower and we run away.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

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.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

I look at myself like a show dog. I’ve got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

When I was writing the Destiny’s Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the label at the time didn’t know that we were going to be that successful, so they gave us all control. And I got used to it.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.