Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

God puts people in our lives on purpose so we can help them succeed and help them become all He created them to be. Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

I don’t think about that. I wasn’t a kid growing up saying one day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn’t on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

Think of what you are, you Christians. You are God’s children; you are joint heirs with Christ. The ‚many mansions‘ are for you; the palms and harps of the glorified are for you. You have a share in all that Christ has and is and shall be.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

Our God is a forgiving God.

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.

I am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin‘, but I felt like a fighter comin‘ up, man. I felt like, you know, I’m being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

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.

We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That’s why we have the gift of faith.

No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.

While discipline and freedom seem like they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, they are actually very connected.

They say miracles are past.

The Bible says today is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation… But there will come a time when it will be too late for you.

Where love is, there God is also.

We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so, I am exposing Christianity to ridicule and leading people to speak evil of the holy name by which I am called.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

Applause waits on success.

It’s not the tools that you have faith in – tools are just tools. They work, or they don’t work. It’s people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I’m still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

If you look at my life, generally, I’ve been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.

Like so many American families, our families weren’t asking for much. They didn’t begrudge anyone else’s success or care that others had much more than they did… in fact, they admired it.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it – not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.