You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you – when life opens that door for you, I should say – I think it’s important to be giving, to return the love back.

‚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.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

I think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

If you are full of motivation as a player, if you are full of concentration, I am open arms.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

I’m not the judge. You know, God didn’t tell me to go around judging everybody.

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

See, winners embrace hard work.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

I believe that some of us who were kept by God a long while before we found Him love Him better perhaps than we should have done if we had received Him directly, and we can preach better to others – we can speak more of His loving-kindness and tender mercy.

Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.

I’m not going to stop having problems.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

I pity the fool who just gives up.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the faults of others.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

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

I have only one counsel for you – be master.

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point – a cactus, not a cushion.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

I’m not the kind of cat that’s going to cut off an ear if I can’t do something.

God always wants us to be growing.

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‚Is there any hope for the future?‘ My answer is the same, ‚Yes, through Jesus Christ.‘

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.