If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, Impossible, when orders came?

Sometimes it's very difficult to keep momentum when it's you that you are following. - Andrew Lloyd Webber

Does adversity build character? . . . It does not. Almost all people can stand adversity of one sort or another. If you want to test a person's character, give him power.

A life filled with opportunities and encouragement finds more and more opportunities and encouragement, and success becomes inevitable.

He did, however, put in me the ability to make a decision and then make it right.

If your situtation is the fault of anything or anyone else...there is very little hope and absolutely zero power over your own life. "Responsibility is about hope and control. And...who doesn't want hope for a greater future that their choices control? ...Most folks look for their car keys with more energy than they search for the wisdom that can change their lives.

Most people fail at whatever they attempt because of an undecided heart. Should I? Should I not? Go forward? Go back? Success requires the emotional balance of a committed heart. When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape.

I've got to be willing to enter into and do battle with the confusion in order to reach the victory on the other side. It's like, I am here, confusion is in front of me, and just beyond confusion waits the answer or skill I need to take my life in a new and incredible direction.

It is true: an army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep! I am a person of action.

When I am faced with the choice of doing nothing or doing something, I will always choose to act. I am a person of action.

We can't do everything at once, but, by God, we can do something at once!

You must come to the self-realization that even though you couldn't control any of the crazy things that have happened in your life, your choices in response to those things are what have led you down this path you don't like.