You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

We should not underestimate ourselves, because if lots of individuals go together then we can accomplish almost anything.

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

My ‚fear‘ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

You’re not going to scare me into being somebody I don’t want to be.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

I think, when you are growing up, you have to pull apart from what your mother wants or needs. You’ve got to go your own way, and that’s what I did.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

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.

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

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

Only you can control your future.

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

I’m mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it’s the only place where I’m happy.

I don’t think I get that upset over things.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Remember that life’s big changes rarely give advance warning.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

I never go into a situation with any type of expectations.

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

We become what we repeatedly do.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

I always have confidence, whether I miss four in a row or make four in a row, that the next one’s going in. To a coach, sometimes that might not make sense.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

I got teased my entire school life. What they were picking on I don’t even understand.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

All of our problems start in our minds.

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

The older you get, the better you get.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned.

‚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.‘