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.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.

I’m a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.

God answers prayers, but he doesn’t always answer it your way.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

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

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‚If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?‘ And whenever the answer has been ‚No‘ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

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.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

God made you a masterpiece – be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

You don’t want to pigeonhole yourself.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

I’m very careful about saying who would and wouldn’t go to heaven. I don’t know.

When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher,‘ ‚Prophet,‘ ‚Really nice guy’… this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you’re left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Only God can look at somebody’s heart.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

Temptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

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

When Christians say God has been talking to them about something, it simply means they have a strong inner conviction or feeling that God has made His will known to them.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

There’s a belief that you’re supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don’t see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.