Oswald Chambers Quotes

My whole thing is I want to affect history in a positive way. I want the timeline to be, 100 years from now, when we look back, it's going to be like, the world was like this, and then Shameik Moore hit the world, and everything changed for the better. It was a new light. Something special.

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

You know, my goal, once I leave the music business, is like, 'Man, Lupe didn't lead us astray.' It comes directly from Islam: leading people astray is the worst thing you could do. Especially in perpetuity; like, your music continues to go on and live without you. That risk is too great for me; I'm gonna keep it positive.

What really matters is what's on the inside.

I look more for something within someone and I don't care where they come from - even Essex!

I think legacies are most meaningful with the impressions that a person can leave on a group of people.

There is a certain immortality in the change that another person effects on another person.

It's really easy to fall into the trap of believing that what we do is more important than what we are. Of course, it's the opposite that's true: What we are ultimately determines what we do!

Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

It's not what a man has but what a man is that's important.

It doesn't matter whether you're the king of a country or... a fabulous Beatle; it's what's inside that counts.

God is far more interested in what you are than who you are.

What you do matters — but not much. What you are matters tremendously.

What we are is more important than what we have or what is said of us.

Kind words and good deeds are eternal. You never know where their influence will end.

People should not worry as much about what they do but rather about what they are. If they and their ways are good, then their deeds are radiant... it is not our works which sanctify us but we who sanctify our works.

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.

what is a german? to say a man is a german, what is that? does it tell you if he is a good man? or a bad man? no, my friend, it tells you nothing about a man to say he is german. a man must think what he is inside. what he is on the outside, how can this matter?

I will write a book one day about how I feel about every aspect of Emily Stone. She's a full genius. She has found her genius and is giving it all so fully and beautifully. I think everyone who works with her, brushes shoulders with her, or even makes eye contact with her, gets a shot of sunshine.

Do not think that saintliness comes from occupation; it depends rather on what one is. The kind of work we do does not make us holy, but we may make it holy.

Part of our purpose in life is to build a legacy – a consistent pattern of building into the lives of others.

Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.

Real greatness has nothing to do with a man’s sphere. It does not lie in the magnitude of his outward agency, in the extent of the effects which he produces. The greatest men may do comparatively little.

The biggest thing that will define my legacy is how I've done it, and what I've done, and who I am. I'm a weird big guy. Doing rapping, doing movies. Do a lot of stuff. But always do things the right way. Went to the police academy to become a police officer. Get his master's in criminal justice, stayed out of trouble. Played for three different teams. Changed three different franchises around. This is a guy who they would have secret meetings about to change the rules. So, that's going to be my legacy: the most dominant player ever.

Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own.