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“When an opportunity comes, it holds possibilities. And when you move away from it or don't sense it or grasp it, you're really throwing away your future; you're throwing away your tomorrow.”
“My family and I would never receive royalties on the revenue that my materials brought into the church; materials that were created on our own personal time.”
“Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
“Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.”
“It takes guts to get out of the ruts.”
“You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.”
“I have had more honors than I've deserved and more rewards than I expected. It can be tempting just to say, 'Well, I'm going to retire.' But what would I do then? Sit in a chair and watch TV? Don't let fulfillment throw away your tomorrow.”
“Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.”
“A lack of resources may slow you down, but don't let it make you throw away a big idea. Give God five years, ten years, fifteen years, twenty years, twenty-five years, thirty years, forty years, or more. Give God all the time He needs to bring the resources to you!”
“I have a reputation worldwide of being tolerant of all people and their views. I'm too well-educated to criticize a certain religion or group of people for what they believe in. It's called freedom.”
“The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies.”
“Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.”
“I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.”
“Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.”
“The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.”
“Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.”
“The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.”
“What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?”
“You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.”
“I want to build friendships. I want to come across as being a good illustration of what Jesus is like.”