If you will do what God tells you to do, there’s no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.

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

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

If there really is a god, then he really looks after me.

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I’m just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

A promise must never be broken.

‚You are no saint,‘ says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

I’ve always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it’s also been about confidence and faith.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several important things very quickly. Whether they will be of use to him is conditioned by survival. Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

I will not be triumphed over.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Everybody accuses me of moving fast when I direct a picture. I don’t move fast, but I just keep moving.

Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger’s skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

Our work is never over.

A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don’t ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren’t blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

Of course you can’t ‚trust‘ what people tell you on the web anymore than you can ‚trust‘ what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.

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

I’m a big perfectionist! I’m trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way – I hope it never will.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

In football, I don’t have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many… Most of the time, I’m alone.

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

There’s many ups and downs in the fight game.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.