Believe that none of the effort you put into coming closer to God is ever wasted - even if in the end you don't achieve what you are striving for.
Success at anything will always come down to this: focus & effort. And we control both.
Success isn't overnight. It's when everyday you get a little better than the day before. It all adds up.
Wake up determined. Go to bed satisfied.
To some its Hump Day. To us, it's Wednesday's getting its ass kicked and Thursday just asked Friday to switch places.
The wall! Your success is on the other side. Can't jump over it or go around it. You know what to do.
In life we get an opportunity to do some cool things, and some things that are fun and that we like doing.
The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air.
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
I wouldn't say that I'm the greatest guitarist ever. I'd say probably that I'm the greatest guitarist sitting in this chair.
We are in constant danger of being not actors in the drama of our lives but reactors, to go where the world takes us, to drift with whatever current happens to be running the strongest.