Life is a mission, not a career. A career is a profession, a mission is a cause. A career asks, What’s in it for me? A mission asks, How can I make a difference?
If you could envision the type of person God intended you to be, you would rise up and never be the same again.
Now think deeply. What have you done with your life over the past year? How do you feel inside?
We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.
Make as many friends as you can, but don’t build your life on them alone. It’s an unstable foundation.
It’s hard, but sometimes it is better to have no friends for a time than to have the wrong friends. The wrong group can lead you down all kinds of paths you really don’t want to be on. And retracing your steps can be a long and hard journey.
Depending on what they are, our habits will either make us or break us. We become what we repeatedly do.
Don’t wait until people are dead to give them flowers.
A fruit salad is delicious precisely because each fruit maintains its own flavor.
Honesty is always the best policy, even when it’s not the trend.
Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn’t read is not better off than the person who can’t.
It’s especially hard to admit that you made a mistake to your parents, because, of course, you know so much more than they do.
Small changes can make huge destination differences.
You can usually tell when a couple becomes centered on each other because they are forever breaking up and getting back together.
The primary purpose of going to college isn’t to get a great job. The primary purpose of college is to build a strong mind, which leads to greater self-awareness, capability, fulfillment, and service opportunities, which, incidentally, should lead to a better job.
My dad told me that when I was born my cheeks were so fat the doctors didn’t know which end to spank.
I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication.
The average teen today spends about 35 hours a week in front of a screen of some kind: iPod, movie, TV, video. And a lot of it is good, but a lot of it’s not. And so I think you’ve got that five hours a day of media coming into your kid’s head that’s creating a lot of havoc out there.
My focus has kind of been on teenagers, you know, and I think we’ve got a huge crisis right now in America, among our teens.
My dad is a good role model for me, and then I had a high school coach that really helped me out when I was struggling and made a big difference in my life.