Act, and God will act.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

People’s blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

There are so many things we have to overcome in this life with Jesus, His work on the cross. He’s paid the ultimate price for us, so I’m proud to be a child of God.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Desire is the essence of a man.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

If you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

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.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

If you ask people what they’ve always wanted to do, most people haven’t done it. That breaks my heart.

Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

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

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

People who think too much before they act don’t act too much.

Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.

I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin‘ hymns is a great thing to do.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

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.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

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

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

Effective action is always unjust.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.