There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

Even the best teams can fail. Celebrities can fade. There is only One in whom your faith is always safe, and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need to let your faith show!

There are so many things we have to overcome in this life with Jesus, His work on the cross. He’s paid the ultimate price for us, so I’m proud to be a child of God.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

I encourage people not to be passive consumers of music and of culture in general. And feeling like, yeah, you can enjoy the products of professionals, but that doesn’t mean you don’t have to completely give up the reins and give up every connection to music or whatever it happens to be.

And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

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

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

Now I do whatever I want.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

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.

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again – as I always am when I write.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.

When you’re one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

You have to be someone.

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

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

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?

There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.

If I have a platform and a voice, I should use it for my people.

I dwell in possibility.

I’m not a regrets-type person.

I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I was just right, so I believe that my brain is a good one, and it’s lasting me very well.

In all seriousness, people think that it’s the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words – that’s how long a novel is.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.