The only thing that could pull me away, was hard work.

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.

Pessimists never go on a voyage of discovery, equally so they never leave the shoreline in search of new horizons.

My get-up-and-go often leaves without me.

I was feeling like a real misfit in middle school, but when I saw 'Wicked, ' it made me feel really cool for being different... and you can carve that in stone!

If not me, who? And if not now, when?

There is no gambling like politics.

Last Exit to Brooklyn should explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America and still be eagerly read in a hundred years.

This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, Theres nothing true but Heaven.

Anyone not busy learning is busy dying.

I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life.

The TV's the altar. I'm what people are sacrificing to.' 'What do they sacrifice?' asked Shadow. 'Their time, mostly,' said Lucy. 'Sometimes each other.