However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

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

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

I am rather inclined to silence.

It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Giving up cannot be an option.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.

Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

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

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

To reach a port, we must sail – sail, not tie at anchor – sail, not drift.