Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

Silence is a source of great strength.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

If you tell me there’s something I can’t do, I’ll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

I don’t feel too much pressure. I only see an opportunity.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

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

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it’s government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can’t stop marching. Even when they’re turning the hoses on you, you can’t stop.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

No man is hurt but by himself.

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: ‚We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.‘

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

I’m an all-or-nothing kind of guy, I guess.

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.

If you will do what God tells you to do, there’s no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

Don’t ever play yourself.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Not one person can make or break what I’m doing, except me or God.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.

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.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.