He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

I just want to do well with the national team.

Mine is better than ours.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.

Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

Affluence means influence.

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn’t mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

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’m on record that it didn’t really traumatize me to do away with some people.

Even the best and biggest teams in the world do not reach finals of tournaments.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

See, winners embrace hard work.

If you sit there and have that mentality of ‚triple down on what you’re good at,‘ you’re never going to grow. You’re always going to stay the same.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

I’ve always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin‘ my thing, my own way. And it’s been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

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.

Honestly, I always believed in myself. For real, for real.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that’s the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.

It confuses me and disappoints me when somebody says, ‚What does he do? What does he do?‘ My records are some of the biggest anthems ever. What do you think, they magically just appear? Obama walked out to my record.

On one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts!

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

If I’d been born ugly, you’d never have heard of Pele.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

People just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning.

God puts people in our lives on purpose so we can help them succeed and help them become all He created them to be. Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

God’s desire is that we excel.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can’t be naive.

From the time that ‚Nevermind‘ came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

No one but a fool is always right.

I’m going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.

Be not simply good – be good for something.

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?