He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

You make yourself broad. You make yourself appealing. ‚Hey, y’all, I’m cool with everybody.‘ That’s my message.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

While musical experts of the world focus on what choir members can do, I would like to focus on what choir members can be.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

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

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

When you tell a recruiter that you’re almost 300 pounds and you want to be a SEAL, it doesn’t go too well. I got hung up on a lot.

If you hear a voice within you say ‚you cannot paint,‘ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game.

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

The idea that to make a man work you’ve got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we’ve forgotten there’s any other way.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

I want to rethink ‚surrender‘ as an active verb.

Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

To our brothers in Latin America and the world, we must convey that the Cuban people will overcome.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

I criticize by creation – not by finding fault.

If an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it.

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

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.

Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get – they probably don’t have the mission in their souls.

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

There’s many ups and downs in the fight game.

There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it’s extremely hard to block anything – extremely hard. You’ll never get perfect blocking.

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.