You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

It’s always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

I’ve learned never to say never.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That’s the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we’re doing.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they’re proud of.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

One’s own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one’s Maker and no one else’s.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

I’m going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: ‚Lord, remember me.‘

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

To make headway, improve your head.

I am not afraid of saying something and going and pursuing it. That’s it. I see it in my mind. I say it out loud. I go and do it.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

When I die, and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That’s what I’ve done.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don’t believe that we’re supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God’s blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that’s how God leads us.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood – both its power and those who bear it.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that’s worthwhile, that they’re going to be proud to show to friends and family.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

I’m amazed sometimes by the Christians who don’t really believe that God wants to help them and bless them.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

I didn’t work hard to sit down and not work.

My message to all the activists is to just keep going, and I know it really may seem impossible and hopeless sometimes – it always does – so you just have to keep going because if you try hard enough and long enough you will make a difference.