It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Know that as a Christian, your destiny is to be Christlike in all of your ways.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

Because I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn’t mean I am immortal. It doesn’t mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

If you look at space companies, they’ve failed either because they’ve had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.

It’s never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

Winning takes precedence over all. There’s no gray area. No almosts.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.

There is a power in God’s gospel beyond all description.

God wants to help us… He loves us… we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

I don’t let my religious world get too complicated.

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I’ve been working nonstop since I was 15. I don’t even know how to chill out.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

If a man does his best, what else is there?

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

I don’t know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact – men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

God’s first line of defense – and offense – for every situation is prayer.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

When all is said and done, what constitutes the impregnable superiority of Christianity over all other types of Faith is that it is ever more consciously identified with a Christogenesis: in other words, with an awareness of the rise of a certain universal Presence which is at once immortalizing and unifying.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

I am not going to Heaven because I have preached to great crowds or read the Bible many times. I’m going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: ‚Lord, remember me.‘

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.