We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

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

You don’t see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

Occasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him, but it does not matter how the voice sounds to the ears of man. What is important is how the heart sounds to the ears of God.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

It doesn’t matter who you are – if you dream big and if you work really hard, you can achieve unimaginable results, and that’s really good for the nation.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

I’ve felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father’s family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.

Prayer doesn’t just change things – it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

I know Elon, we’re very like minded in many ways. We’re not conceptual twins. One thing I want us to do is go to Mars, but for me it’s one thing. He’s singularly focused on that. I think motivation wise, for me I don’t find that Plan B idea motivating. I don’t want a plan B for Earth, I want Plan B to make sure Plan A works.

I’m a bold Christian, not a scaredy-cat Christian.

I’m not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I’m doing. So if I’m playing basketball, if I’m taking the SATs, like, there’s a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it’s the same thing.

I’m a Christian by choice.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He’s doing.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

I believe in that old adage that ‚as goes California, so goes the country.‘

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

I will do this job as long as I feel that I can do it full steam.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.