I wouldn’t ever say if you’re having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that’s worthwhile, that they’re going to be proud to show to friends and family.

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God’s promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

I’ve done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price – which has been the case most of the time.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.

To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it’s digging deep, it’s doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.

I get really motivated when I put on the India jersey. It is a responsibility, so I want to perform in the best way I can.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

If you’ve got a talent, protect it.

People want you to fail.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

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

My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.

Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can make it happen. Thankfully, He doesn’t expect us to make ourselves holy. He just wants us to learn to depend on Him to make us holy.

As far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

I’ve written some great things. That’s a gift, but there’s consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

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

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

You are never too young to learn, never too old to change.

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

You just have to have a simple faith.

I’ve had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, ‚Your music sucks, you don’t know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don’t know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.‘

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.

Siren voices tell me, ‚You don’t have to keep going on.‘ And then you think, ‚I’m a writer. What do I do? Sit there watching my wife clean up?‘ I don’t know. I like being a writer.

Aim for the highest.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It’s easy to get discouraged in life.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

I’ve always been very happy. I’ve always been easy going and I’ve always been very encouraging; it’s just my personality.