Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it’s fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.

I’ve always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we’re young, we don’t understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it’s a blessing to have that support at home.

Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, ‚Don’t try.‘ That fits the writing, too. I don’t try; I just type.

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

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

When I’m inspired, I get excited because I can’t wait to see what I’ll come up with next.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

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

I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

Only you can control your future.

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

Desire is the very essence of man.

God wants to bless us where we are.

Heaven means to be one with God.

Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you’re supposed to be.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

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.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

I think that at the start of a game, you’re always playing to win, and then maybe if you’re ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

The future is called ‚perhaps‘, which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

I deal with more practical issues of the Bible.

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.

If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.

He who is brave is free.

I couldn’t ever go back home without being something. I probably would never have gone back home. That was definitely a big motivation. To get back home, and not empty-handed.

I feel like my message is to let people know that God is a good God, that He’s on their side, and no matter what happens, He has a great plan for them.

I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‚OK, I’m done.‘ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.