“Pay now, play later; play now, pay later.”

If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn’t show yet.

People who blame others for their failures never overcome them. They simply move from problem to problem. To reach your potential, you must continually improve yourself, and you can’t do that if you don’t take responsibility for your actions and learn from your mistakes.

If your habits don’t line up with your dream, then you need to either change your habits or change your dream.

True success is obeying God.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to get things done, and those who don’t want to make mistakes.

When values, thoughts, feelings, and actions are in alignment, a person becomes focused and character is strengthened.

It’s better to prepare than to repair.

The true measure of your character is what you would do if you were sure no one would ever find out.

The only one you should compare yourself to is you. Your mission is to become better today than you were yesterday.

Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present.

Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.

When you are bigger than your purpose you have a career. When your purpose is bigger than you, you have a calling.

You have to live with the people to know their needs, and you have to live with God to know how to solve them.

God chooses what we go through; we choose how we go through it.

Commitment comes as a result of choice, not conditions.

Successful people don’t have any fewer problems than unsuccessful people; they just have a different mindset in dealing with them.

Sins are like chains and locks preventing their perpetrator from roaming the vast garden of Tawheed and reaping the fruits of righteous actions.

However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man. Empty of essence, what learning has he whether upon him is firewood or book?

We do not become righteous by doing righteous deed but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.

Men must not only know, they must act.

In war, mere appearances have had all the effect of realities; and that a person, under a firm persuasion that he can command resources, virtually has them; that very prospect inspiring him with hope and boldness in his exertions.

After all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done.

Everyone experiences bouts of jealousy; but the dignified person conceals it, while the vulgar one acts upon it

In Missouri, where I come from, we don’t talk about what we do – we just do it. If we talk about it, it’s seen as bragging.