It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

Prayer doesn’t just change things – it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

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

I think it’s so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with ‚Rocky,‘ so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they’re proud of.

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.

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don’t believe too much into inspiration, only I’m waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It’s a little too easy to say that.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

I used to get into a lot of fights.

Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Man is not made for defeat.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

You fail only if you stop writing.

God created man, but I could do better.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.

I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.

It’s a frustrating game because the situations so drastically change at different times over the course of the week, the game, the season. It feels like brain surgery at times.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

I think it’s quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you’ve got another reason for keeping fit.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That’s why now, even when I get tired, I think, ‚This is what I asked for.‘

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.