Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action – faithful action, for the world, and in God.

Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.

In 1995, I was diagnosed with cancer, and I had to practice what I preached. I had always said to ‚believe in God‘ and ‚don’t give up‘ to little kids who had been diagnosed with cancer. I then thought if I can’t call on that same God and same strength that I told people about, I would be a liar and a phony.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

I believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity work and build orphanages. There’s the teaching that we’re supposed to be poor to show that we’re humble. I don’t buy that. I think we’re supposed to be leaders. We’re supposed to excel.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

Nothing’s ever easy as long as you go on living.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent’s house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

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

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

The decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for generations to come. A desire to serve is a natural outcome of one’s conversion, worthiness, and preparation.

My old drama coach used to say, ‚Don’t just do something, stand there.‘ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.

You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.

All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.

I’m an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call ‚the last illusion.‘ The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what’s going on but that the planets know what’s going on.

I was a fighting machine with a will of iron.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

The word ‚Islam‘ means ‚peace.‘ The word ‚Muslim‘ means ‚one who surrenders to God.‘ But the press makes us seem like haters.

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

I believe in the battle-whether it’s the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.

‚God‘ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‚Deity‘ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

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

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

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.‘

All the top players in the world play 45-50-60 games. You need that many games, even the strikers need that many games.

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.