Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

I’m not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

I think it’s so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully.

I’m not the same man I used to be, I’m not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

I’m an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I’ll go stand in the corner.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

What nourishes me also destroys me.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

A man’s own manner and character is what most becomes him.

What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it’s because that’s what’s inside.

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us… While what we call ‚our own life‘ remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make ‚our own life‘ less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

My life is my argument.

You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

The work is the work. The work is not me.

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

I’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

Yeah, I was a delinquent. It was when I was in the ninth grade. I was doing stupid stuff, and the cops came into the class. I was humiliated more than anything.

Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don’t know and I don’t care.

Humble people ask for help.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

When I’m in management meetings when we’re deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I’m the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That’s the part of my life where I feel most in control.

There’s a scripture that says, ‚A merry heart doeth good like medicine.‘ I think that’s true, too.

There are a lot of people who don’t know me and what I am all about.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go… if it’s not a part of your God-given destiny.