I believe in the battle-whether it’s the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

By indignities men come to dignities.

I shook up the world, I shook up the world.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

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

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

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.

I’ll never make it, it will never happen, because they’re never going to hear me ‚cause they’re screaming all the time.

I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.

Faith never makes a confession.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Not one person can make or break what I’m doing, except me or God.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Every day that goes by puts us closer to the day when Christ will return.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

Well begun is half done.

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‚darkness‘ on the walls of his cell.

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

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

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

Belief creates the actual fact.

When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can’t budge you from believing God, he won’t know what to do with you anymore.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

God always has patience.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.