When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

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.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

If you will do what God tells you to do, there’s no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

Not being afraid to be wrong – I had to learn how to do that.

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

A lot of people have said I’d have probably done better in my career if I hadn’t looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn’t be blamed because you want to look pretty.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I’ve met with, and I’ve met them all: It’s never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

I don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

If it wasn’t for the fun and money, I really don’t know why I’d bother.

I couldn’t ever go back home without being something. I probably would never have gone back home. That was definitely a big motivation. To get back home, and not empty-handed.

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

My moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

Resist the need to be ‚right‘ all the time or to always have the last word.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

No man was ever great by imitation.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

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.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

If you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

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