People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.

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

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

I’ve done everything every fat person ever has. I’ve tried every diet.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

All that the future holds in store for each sacred child of God will be shaped by his or her parents, family, friends, and teachers. Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity’s faith later.

I believe that some of us who were kept by God a long while before we found Him love Him better perhaps than we should have done if we had received Him directly, and we can preach better to others – we can speak more of His loving-kindness and tender mercy.

Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‚Is there any hope for the future?‘ My answer is the same, ‚Yes, through Jesus Christ.‘

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

‚Mean‘ is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

The best way out is always through.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

I explain the law of compensation like this: ‚Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.

When it comes to our everyday habits, it’s important to ask: ‚Am I putting God first?‘

My reputation grows with every failure.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

You can be passionate about anything.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

Lord sanctify us. Oh! That Thy spirit might come and saturate every faculty, subdue every passion, and use every power of our nature for obedience to God.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

I definitely wasn’t anything special when I first started but I think I adapted quite quickly into racing and it became a bit better slowly. All of cadets, the first four years of karting, I only won one proper race, one! Which was the British Open Championship at PFI and I started 21st and I won.

Marines don’t know how to spell the word ‚defeat‘.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

If I’m inspired to make a certain kind of song, I’m going to make that kind of song, no matter if it’s what they know me as or think I am.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live up to how huge Snoop got, how huge Dre got, how huge Pac got. I was always aware.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you’re dealt?

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

When I’m writing a record, I kind of don’t listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels.

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

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.

If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.