I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

Each daughter of God is of infinite worth because of her divine mission.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

The day we receive Jesus Christ as our Savior is one of the greatest days of our lives. Not only are our sins washed away, but God puts His Spirit inside of us and gives us new desires.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

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

A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

Now, we can’t stop the devil from coming against us, but we can overcome him each time – if we exercise the authority of Jesus and decide not to put up with him.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Just do some kind of workout. Doesn’t matter if it’s going for a walk around the block, going for a jog, doing some calisthenics, lifting weights, going to a pool and swimming – you name it. But do something that gets your blood flowing and gets your mind in the game.

My old drama coach used to say, ‚Don’t just do something, stand there.‘ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

You are victors, not victims!

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

O God, we praise Thee for keeping us till this day, and for the full assurance that Thou wilt never let us go.

I’m the most stubborn person I know.

I’m a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting, and dancing is what you want to do, then you just have to do it – no matter where it is.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you – when life opens that door for you, I should say – I think it’s important to be giving, to return the love back.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

I’ve never been able to witness the birth of an idea. It seems as if one second, there’s nothing particularly going on, and the next second, something is there. It’s coming up out of my unconscious, up from places that I don’t even know where they are.

Life loves the liver of it.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see – or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

I’ve never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.