We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

Everything is subject to change except God Himself.

Without failure there is no achievement.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

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.

I don’t really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

I dwell in possibility.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we’re doing.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.

I’m a big perfectionist! I’m trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.

It’s never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

I wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people around the world.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.

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!

You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.

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

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That’s why we have the gift of faith.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Men freely believe that which they desire.

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

We’re just enthusiastic about what we do.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can make it happen. Thankfully, He doesn’t expect us to make ourselves holy. He just wants us to learn to depend on Him to make us holy.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

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.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

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.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

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

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.

I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

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 battle is all over except the ‚shouting‘ when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.