Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

Do not hide your faith and your beliefs under a bushel basket, especially in this world that seems to have gone mad with political correctness.

Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Continuous effort — not strength or intelligence — is the key to unlocking our potential.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.

Football is like life—it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles in the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

You are a fool in four letters, my son.

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.