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

The more you do, the more you fail. The more you fail, the more you learn. The more you learn, the better you get.

Failing forward is the ability to get back up after you’ve been knocked down, learn from your mistake, and move forward in a better direction.

The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops them.

It is our decisions not our conditions that determine our quality of life.

Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you.

You can easily determine the caliber of a person by the amount of opposition it takes to discourage him or her.

Give God the first part of every day. Give God the first day of every week. Give God the first portion of your income. Give God the first consideration in every decision. Give God the first place in your life.

A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.

You will become on the outside, what you believe on the inside.

Do something you hate every day, just for the practice.

It’s good to be out of your comfort zone. Just don’t step out of your gift zone.

We teach what we know, but we reproduce what we are.

I think many people believe the best way they can help others is to criticize them, to give them the benefit of their ‘wisdom.’ I disagree. The best way to help people is to see the best in them.

We cannot consistently behave in a way that is inconsistent with our beliefs.

You either spend your life preparing or you spend your life repairing.

Never allow others to put obstacles in the pathway of your dreams.

I have done a great deal of work, as much as a man, but did not get so much pay. I used to work in the field and bind grain, keeping up with the cradler; but men doing no more, got twice as much pay. We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.

In my personal life I’m not very tough at all, but in my professional life, having to deal with being a woman in a man’s world, I’m really tough. I never back down from a fight or an argument. I’m willing to stand there toe to toe with anyone.

I only deal in what is real. To be honest, I’ve never thought about what I could get out of football or where it would take me. I just wanted to play. I’m the same now.

If you laugh at it, you can deal with it.

A gospel that doesn’t deal with the issues of the day is not the gospel at all.

When you’re black, you have to deal with so much crap in your life from other black people. It’s a dirty, dark secret; I’m glad it’s coming out.

People who assume I want to run for elected office may be dealing from a bad assumption.

There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life – we are never bored.