“It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men. Men respond to leadership in a most remarkable way and once you have won his heart, he will follow you anywhere.”

Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.

Choose to achieve perfection. We won’t achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.

Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride.

I’ve never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn’t appreciate the grind, the discipline.

While statistics are interesting, they’re all in the past.

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

Mistakes are the necessary steps in the learning process; once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten and not repeated.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner.

The joy is in creating, not maintaining.

It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner.

My heart is closer to acting than singing. It’s always been that way.

Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.

People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.

Community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for one another.

My heart died in your hands and resurrected in my own.

If I could go back to a time I’d be with you. And I’d thank you again for almost being the healing to my heart.

I am very busy delighting in the lord. The lord is very busy with the desires of my heart.

Be gentle with your heart.