True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

I don’t really have a gimmick or a ‚thing.‘ I’m one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.

There’s a belief that you’re supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don’t see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

It could be if I fight in front of one person or one million people. It’s still the same emotions.

My life is not to be somebody else’s impact – you know what I mean?

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

Being humble matters.

In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don’t try to play younger than I really am.

Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you’re supposed to be.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course, you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place, you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across – not to just depict life – or criticize it – but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me, you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful.

I do believe in the old saying, ‚What does not kill you makes you stronger.‘ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

We can’t all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it’s to be true and not cover up the cracks.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

They’re right to think that about me, because I’m the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what’s underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don’t think it ever will be.

I didn’t try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can’t budge you from believing God, he won’t know what to do with you anymore.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

I’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

Right now, when we’re hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been – and will always be – our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Marines don’t know how to spell the word ‚defeat‘.

People ask, ‚Should I call you Sir Hopkins?‘ But I say, ‚No. Call me Tony,‘ because it’s too much of a lift-up.

I’m not going to make a song just to make a song. The day that I make an album, it’s so that people really know what Bad Bunny’s about.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman’s dance.

It’s flattering to people who stop you and say that you’ve helped them and all. But, again, you know, you’ve got to stay humble because as quick as you came up, you can come down.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.

Old is authentic. Old is genuine. Old is valuable.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

I’m not trying to be fashionable. Never was!

Anyone who wants to be pope doesn’t care much for themselves, God doesn’t bless them. I didn’t want to be pope.

O God, we praise Thee for keeping us till this day, and for the full assurance that Thou wilt never let us go.