Act, and God will act.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

God made you a masterpiece – be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

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.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

We’re all put on this earth to walk in His image, the Master.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

We have not yet reached the goal but… we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

Success is not a stop sign.

I’ve been studying the Bible for a long time. I remember that after the first five years or so of diligently studying the Word, I didn’t feel like I had made any progress. There were a lot of things in my life that were out of order, and I didn’t feel like I was getting anywhere.

I’ve been praying that we might have a spiritual awakening. But I think that becomes possible as individuals surrender their lives fresh and anew to Christ.

I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

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

This guy Clubber Lang, I’ve been him all my life. He’s mean and hungry just like me.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

From caring comes courage.

I use my celebrity status to inspire someone, to give them hope.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

I knew I wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist – let’s not be fools – but I wasn’t going to be a bum.

You just have to have a simple faith.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

Don’t say I hate institutionalised religion – rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I’m saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.