He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don’t know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

We can approach God’s throne with boldness because we are confident in the power of what Jesus accomplished for us at the cross.

I’ve taught a lot about prayer over the years and how it is really just talking to God.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn’t been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that’s really worthwhile.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

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.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

In two decades I’ve lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

Any man who has had the job I’ve had and didn’t have a sense of humor wouldn’t still be here.

I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

Pray, and let God worry.

I promise you, I will have something on the Internet that is game-changing. I can’t lose.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

God’s mercy and grace give me hope – for myself, and for our world.

Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.

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.

I believe with all my heart that America remains ‚the great idea‘ that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian’s relationship with God. It’s how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they’re not satisfied with their prayer life.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

The great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.