God created man, but I could do better.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

Observe all men, thyself most.

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

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

When there’s so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you’ve already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

Our necessities never equal our wants.

I do know this… I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to church until they heard our message of hope that God is a good God who desires to bless those who are faithful and obedient to Him through Jesus Christ.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn’t been the case for teaching.

At the heart of every being lies creation’s dream of a principle that will one day give organic form to its fragmented treasures. God is unity.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he has made every other creature, however noxious and insignificant to us. They are earth-born companions and our fellow mortals.

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

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

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.

In legal language, a covenant generally denotes an agreement between two or more parties. But in a religious context, a covenant is much more significant. It is a sacred promise with God. He fixes the terms.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

‚Worry‘ is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.

Start your week off right by getting back to what is really important – honoring God.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

I have wasted my hours.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

I never expected to be anybody important.

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you’re changing, emotionally as well as physically?

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

Life isn’t fair, but God is.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.

My mum passing away wasn’t funny, but that funeral and what I went through, the things that happened, looking back at it, there were funny moments. You have to be strong enough to look back at it, to sit and assess the situation.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

For me, I don’t want to cheat the game by saying, or kind of doing lip service by saying, I want to be the greatest ever. I want to be able to show it.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.