I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

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.

Religions get lost as people do.

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

Gold was a gift to Jesus. If it’s good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me!

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

You have to be tough and have a lot of faith.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

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

Every time I say something that’s extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

If there are people you haven’t forgiven, you’re not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

What one has to do usually can be done.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

I’ve learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.

Seeing is not always believing.

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

I’m a strict, strict agnostic. It’s very different from a casual, ‚I don’t know.‘ It’s that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can’t present it as fact.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Aim for the highest.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

If one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

Honestly, I always believed in myself. For real, for real.

I feel like my message is to let people know that God is a good God, that He’s on their side, and no matter what happens, He has a great plan for them.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

I do not abuse players. I talk to myself; I abuse myself. It’s my way of letting off steam. I do it after every century; I do not do it always. I keep telling myself: ‚Improve, improve from the previous match, the previous shot. You can do it.‘

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

My focus is my art, and that’s what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I’ve turned down many things that I just didn’t believe in.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

Silence is the mother of truth.