I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.

There is no substitute for victory.

We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.

They say miracles are past.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

I should be a postage stamp, because that’s the only way I’ll ever get licked. I’m beautiful. I’m fast. I’m so mean I make medicine sick. I can’t possibly be beat.

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

In this great country, we celebrate success. We don’t want to penalize those who have done well.

I can do whatever I want.

I’ve been called a recluse. There’s definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

I don’t mind people hating me, because it pushes me.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

I always was a Christian… whatsoever a man thinks in his heart is who he is.

People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.

I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.

I only want my work to make people happy.

‚Your Erroneous Zones’ was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

I don’t spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that’s how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

The nice thing is that when people come up to me, it’s the football they remember, not all the other rubbish.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Hey, I think it’s easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick around as long as I did; I think it’s a much greater accomplishment. That’s hard.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

Salvation and Christ’s love is a gift. You don’t earn it. You’ve got to receive that gift.

God helps those who help themselves.

The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

I was so ashamed of who I was.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

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

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.