You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

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!

Jesus isn’t lettin‘ you off the hook. The Scriptures don’t let you off the hook so easily… When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher‘, ‚Prophet‘, ‚Really nice guy‘ … this is not how Jesus thought of Himself.

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

Act, and God will act.

I’m never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

We cannot have communion with Christ till we are in union with Him; and we cannot have communion with the Church till we are in vital union with it.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God’s grace.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

It’s absolutely normal that different human beings want to go different ways.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Power is competence.

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

The essential lesson I’ve learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you’re not here as a human being only. You’re a spiritual being having a human experience.

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.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

I never looked at my mantel and envisioned an MVP trophy sitting there. This is pretty crazy.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

Every day is a gift from God, no matter how old we are.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

You can never get enough of what you don’t want.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

‚God‘ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‚Deity‘ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

Even with my divorce and with everything, I don’t need money.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

God has entrusted me with myself.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Be not a slave of words.

I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.