Because of a great love, one is courageous.

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

My wife has about everything I can think of.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

I modelled my looks on the town tramp.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

Choose people who lift you up.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

I love Brad in every state.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

If you’re waiting for the perfect moment, you’ll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There’s nothing foolproof.

Quitting is the easiest thing to do.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

Never complain and never explain.

Many of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better… I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.

WWE is a space where I thrived, and I loved, and I still do. I love connecting with an audience; that is the greatest thing about going back to WWE.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it – oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

I always had faith in my creative capacity.

My drive is other people’s success.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.