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

I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I was just right, so I believe that my brain is a good one, and it’s lasting me very well.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

Fame itself… doesn’t really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

If you want to thrive in today’s economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.

I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto – I tell people you don’t have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

I will continue to believe that Israel’s security is paramount.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

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

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

You don’t have to be somebody different to be important. You’re important in your own right.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Often, in the real world, it’s not the smart that get ahead but the bold.

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

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

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

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.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

I believe that I’m one of the best in the world at what I do, and that’s all I’ve ever wanted to be.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; therefore, I am saved.

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

To create something you must be something.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

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