To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

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

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it all just hurts.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

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.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

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

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

Our vision and commitment is towards the country’s progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don’t be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Evil is whatever distracts.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Choose people who lift you up.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

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

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Small aim is a crime.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

I use my celebrity status to inspire someone, to give them hope.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.

I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Never mistake motion for action.

I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.