I’m a can-do girl.

If you continue to keep low performers on your team, that are actually dragging the team down; you’re failing the whole team, and eventually, the whole team is going to fail.

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

Character is power.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

I’m not going to change the world. You’re not going to change the world. But we can help – we can all help.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

We’re just enthusiastic about what we do.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

It’s rule number one, really – beating your teammate.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

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.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I’m changing into the woman I am meant to be.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

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

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

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

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

I want people to follow their dreams, yes… but I’m not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers… I want to show them that there’s so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it’s so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

I’m not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I’m doing. So if I’m playing basketball, if I’m taking the SATs, like, there’s a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it’s the same thing.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.

I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

I don’t want to be fake. I’m just being me. And I have the power to break stereotypes and whatever useless rules that society puts on us.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Competition is a sin.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.