A man of courage is also full of faith.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

As we regularly spend time reading God’s Word and talking to Him in prayer, we put ourselves in position for Him to do things in our lives we could never do on our own.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

I remember they used to tell me, they said, ‚Khaled, you can’t get a Rolls-Royce; you need to get one of them small ones.‘ So I went and bought a Phantom.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

If you continue to keep low performers on your team, that are actually dragging the team down; you’re failing the whole team, and eventually, the whole team is going to fail.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I’d wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, ‚You’re going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.‘

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

There is always safety in valor.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It’s when you go backwards through the ‚begats‘ and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, ‚Hang on, that’s a big punishment for eating one lousy apple… There’s a human-rights issue.‘

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

You can’t think; you just gotta do things.

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

Off with you! You’re a happy fellow, for you’ll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don’t believe that we’re supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God’s blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that’s how God leads us.

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it all just hurts.

If you deserve it, go get it.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.