Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

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

I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash… If anything, that’s all giving me power.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

That feeling is so intoxicating, walking off the court holding the Larry O’Brien trophy. So I just want to do that again.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?

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.‘

You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.

One’s own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one’s Maker and no one else’s.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Life isn’t fair, but God is.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

It’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don’t know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

I’ve always seen first responders as unsung heroes and very special people because, when everyone else is running away from danger, they run into it.

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

I’m a big perfectionist! I’m trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

Nothing will work unless you do.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

Of course, there are those critics – New York critics as a rule – who say, ‚Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it’s good but then she’s a natural writer.‘ Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

Life loves the liver of it.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

I was raised on, ‚You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.‘

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.