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.

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

It is natural to want to have a future.

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

I always try to put a seed of hope into people’s hearts. I’m not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.

There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

No pressure, no diamonds.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

Me don’t dip on nobody’s side. Me don’t dip on the black man’s side, not the white man’s side. Me dip on God’s side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – essential to success.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

God has entrusted me with myself.

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

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us – more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

If you’re waiting for the perfect moment, you’ll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There’s nothing foolproof.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

I’m just telling you, God permits things in our lives sometimes for reasons that we do not understand yet because of the spiritual level that we’re on. We can’t have any understanding of it, because we’re not at a place of spiritual growth yet where we understand the deeper things of God.

Enemies are so stimulating.

The Lord has often chosen to instruct His people in their times of trial.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

Only God can look at somebody’s heart.

God’s desire is that we excel.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

Never leave a rhinestone unturned.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.