The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I’d follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I’ve been very lucky.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

I have the ’77 Million Paintings‘ running in my studio a lot of the time. Occasionally I’ll look up from what I’m doing and I think, ‚God, I’ve never seen anything like that before!‘ And that’s a real thrill.

In every walk of life, you must have leaders. An education in the spiritual world, in the labor field, in the agricultural field, we must have leaders.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.

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

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.

I get really motivated when I put on the India jersey. It is a responsibility, so I want to perform in the best way I can.

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.

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.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

Let God’s promises shine on your problems.

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.

God made you a masterpiece – be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.

The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

Whenever I’m confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does.

Confidence is always a good thing to have going into the weekend. Especially where it’s quite difficult to put the lap together.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

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

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

If I see something sagging, bagging or dragging I’ll get it nipped, tucked or sucked.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn’t copy my style from anybody.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.