Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
Maybe I was great in the ring, but outside of boxing, I'm just a brother like other people. I want to live a good life, serve God, help everybody I can. And one more thing. I'm still gonna find out who stole my bike when I was 12 years old in Louisville and I'm gonna whup him. That was a good bike.
Players should know that if you can't make the contribution of the winning shot, that your attitude every day when you come to practice, or the positive contribution you make through cheering and keeping up team morale, is just as important in the overall picture.
The British prime minister will want to have a strong and positive relationship with European leaders always.
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.
Once you have a clear picture of your priorities - that is values, goals, and high leverage activities - organize around them.
You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman.
You don't drown by falling in water. You only drown if you stay there.
. . . You can make a positive out of most any negative if you work at it hard enough.
If you can see life as a learning experience, you can turn any negative into a positive.
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
I trust there are none here present, who profess to be followers of Christ who do not also practice prayer in their families. We may have no positive commandment for it, but we believe that it is so much in accord with the genius and spirit of the gospel, and that it is so commended by the example of the saints, that the neglect thereof is a strange inconsistency.
Every person gets negative things, they learn from those negative things, and you become a positive person.
There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.
Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
the seeker who embraces positive theology finds. . . that you can have all that stuff in the mall, as well as the beautiful house and car, if only you believe that you can. But. . . if you don't have all that you want, if you feel sick, discouraged, or defeated, you have only yourself to blame. Positive theology ratifies and completes a world without beauty, transcendence, or mercy.
Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.