By your hand, millions – billions – of lives will be altered, caught up in a chain of events begun by you this day.
It is not enough to recognize what is right and true. One must control the impulse to do what is wrong and easy.
The situations that have been the biggest wins for me have been because I was forced to think differently.
There are no hopeless situations, sweetheart, only people who have grown hopeless about them. You still have choices you can make.
Challenges are gifts, opportunities to learn.
Remember, young man, experience is not the best teacher. Other people’s experience is the best teacher. By reading about the lives of great people, you can unlock the secrets to what made them great.
Everybody wants to make a difference, but nobody wants to be different. And you simply cannot have one without the other.
Those who are critical of my goals and dreams simply do not understand the higher purpose to which I have been called.
I will not waste time on second thoughts. My life will not be an apology. It will be a statement.
Every man of character will have that character questioned. Every man of honor and courage will be faced with unjust criticism, but never forget that unjust criticism has no impact whatsoever upon the truth. And the only sure way to avoid criticism is to do nothing and be nothing.
If you worry about what other people think of you, then you will have more confidence in their opinion than you have in your own.
It’s time to stop letting your history control your destiny.
People who are labeled as disrespectful do not get the same opportunities afforded to those who are labeled as respectful.
I start every day making sure I’m where I need to be and thinking like I need to think.
When you know that everything matters – that every move counts as much as any other – you will begin living a life of permanent purpose.
Worry is just imagination used in an unproductive way.
While public opinion might sway back and forth, right and wrong do not.
I just think it’s amazing that a person could lose everything, chasing nothing.
Successful people make their decisions quickly and change their minds slowly. Failures make their decisions slowly and change their minds quickly.
Even a small amount of perspective can change our lives. Because even the smallest amount of perspective can change how we are able to navigate hard times.