“Big things are built one brick at a time. Victories are achieved one choice at a time. A life well lived is chosen one day at a time.”

Don’t let people’s compliments go to your head, and don’t let their criticisms go to your heart. The degree to which you do either of these things is the degree to which you’ll be ruled by what other people think of you.

The decisions we make dictate the schedules we keep. The schedules we keep determine the lives we live. The lives we live determine how we spend our souls. So, this isn’t just about finding time. This is about honoring God with the time we have.

Getting healthy isn’t just about losing weight. It’s not limited to adjusting our diet and hoping for good physical results. It’s about recalibrating our souls so that we want to change – spiritually, physically, and mentally. And the battle really is in all three areas.

God, I want to see You. God, I want to hear You. God, I want to know You. God, I want to follow hard after You. And even before I know what I will face today, I say yes to You.

Scars are beautiful when we see them as glorious reminders that we courageously survived.

I want to learn how to be more thankful for what I am, than guilty for what I’m not.

Love isn’t what I have the opportunity to get from this world. Love is what I have the opportunity to give.

Remember: even the smallest drop of God’s strength is more than enough to cover our frailties, our shortcomings, and the places where we deem ourselves weak.

Sometimes it’s the words we choose not to say that speak most loudly about our character.

God loves to take people from broken backgrounds and surprise them with possibilities.

Just because we feel offended doesn’t mean we must be offended. Feelings are indicators not dictators.

The one who obey’s God’s instruction for today will develop a keen awareness of His direction for tomorrow.

When feelings of inadequacy come creeping in, let’s park our minds in God’s truth.

God is good to me, even when life doesn’t feel good to me.

Where there is a lack of rest, there is an abundance of stress.

Not making a decision is actually a decision. It’s the decision to stay the same.

My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel–it is, before all, to make you see.

I just wanted to speak to the streets and give them motivation on making it out. Whatever situation they’re in, know that they can make do and have a better life.

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation – veneer isn’t worth anything.

It is one of the enjoyments of retirement that you are able to drift through the day at your own pace, easy in the knowledge that you have put hard work and achievement behind you.

As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.

To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts, all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.

To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.