I figured something out. And it is no secret what I figured out. Whatever the majority of people were doing, I found myself doing the opposite. I wanted to chase something great.

Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day.

The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching.

If there's something in your life that you know needs changing, make sure you change it before God's got to change it. Because if God's got to change it, you ain't going to like it.

Before anything great is really achieved, your comfort zone must be disturbed.

Don't let your alarm clock, be the only reason you wake up.

Wins and losses come a dime a dozen. But effort? Nobody can judge effort. Effort is between you and you. Effort ain't got nothing to do with nobody else.

Let your name be worth more than your bank account

If tomorrow wasn’t promised, what would you give for today?

When you see tears in my eyes, you see it's not about the wins or the losses, It's about the opportunity.

I wasn't the biggest, the fastest, the strongest, and then I bought into something called work ethic.

You really shouldn't say I love you unless you mean it. But if you mean it you should say it a lot. People forget.

Keep Inspiring everyday, because when you retire, you will lose desire, become tired, and expire.

In many homes and among so-called educated people—it has become fashionable to joke about the Bible and to regard it more as a dust-catcher than as the living Word of God.

The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.

If you can learn to convey what you express in the first rough sketch, you're really saying what you need to say in that.

I wrote the novel [Room], and then I thought, "This could work on film, and I want to be the one to do it." So I went ahead and drafted it.

Ignorance is a self-generating state of mind; one of its characteristics is that it doesn't recognize itself as ignorance.

But I confess that "my mind to me a kingdom is" - not! Rather it is a fantastical republic, daily troubled by more revolutions than ever occurred in South America.

We having nothing to fear but fear itself. That, and maybe getting mugged by someone wearing a "No Fear" t-shirt.

A small country cannot contend with a great; the few cannot contend with the many; the weak cannot contend with the strong