In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

What keeps me going is goals.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it’s going to happen.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

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

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

I pity the fool who just gives up.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people – their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I’d wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, ‚You’re going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.‘

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.

The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was ‚Crime and Punishment‘. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days… I said, ‚If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.‘

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

You have to be someone.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don’t take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

At one point, I didn’t care. Now I want as many people to hear my music as possible.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

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

Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

Young people can create beautiful things.

I don’t fly because of the enormous climate impact of aviation per person.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

Sometimes I’ve called writing a disease. If so, I’m glad that it caught me.

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

Americans never quit.

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