People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

If you have the ability to pick yourself up by the bootstraps and start over, you come out stronger because you learn from whatever mistakes you made.

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

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

I’m pretty positive, optimistic, so I always expect the best.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

My interest in creating anything is that it be useful.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, ‚I release the need for this in my life‘.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that’s because I’m doing it wrong.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

I’m not very articulate.

We work to become, not to acquire.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

No man was ever great by imitation.

I don’t want to be an action star, an action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

I’m going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

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.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Even when you’re 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

Not being afraid to be wrong – I had to learn how to do that.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

I didn’t always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

I realized why directors are such horrible people – in a way – because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.