It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

I believe in God – not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

Losing is tough.

I’m a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.

I have made the mistaken assumption – and I will attempt to be better at this – of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season. And that is my mistake.

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit’s aid than he can create a world.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them… may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

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

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

If there are people you haven’t forgiven, you’re not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

On the field, aggression can sometimes be a positive emotion. It boosts performance and can lift your game. But over the years, I have learnt that restrained aggression is a better animal. That way, you will conserve your energy and won’t spend yourself quickly.

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

I’ve been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It’s natural.

If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

I just want to lobby for God.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

In my career as a director, there’s always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go: ‚What is this thing all about, and why am I telling the story? Does anybody really care about seeing this?‘ At that time you have to say: ‚OK, forget that and just go ahead.‘

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

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.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

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.

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares… if you don’t really work them.

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

You have to be someone.

If at first you don’t succeed… so much for skydiving.

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

Only God can look at somebody’s heart.

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God’s eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

Any hand that I’ve shaken, any person that I met when I was Joe Blow, now that I’m this guy Kevin Hart, has come back. That’s why I treat everybody with respect. I’m always a nice pleasant guy to meet because when they come back to you, they remember.

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

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