You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

I’m about being the best.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

Thirty was so strange for me. I’ve really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I’m changing into the woman I am meant to be.

I love to watch times change!

The more I see the less I know for sure.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

If I’m going to get you to do stuff, I need to lead you. I can’t just order you to do it.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

I’m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

I’m not going to change the world. You’re not going to change the world. But we can help – we can all help.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – essential to success.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.

Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

If it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.

For me, education was power.

America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.

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!

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

The same thing I did in 2013 is what I’m trying to do in 2014, which is continue to improve, continue to shock people. You know, I have several projects coming up between 2014 and 2015, and hopefully by 2015, I’ll have another hour of stand-up material where I’ll be able to go on the road and tour again.

My life has been very full.