Donald Miller Quotes

Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'

Everyone wants to win. But to truly succeed - whether it is at a sport or at your job or in life - you have to be willing to do the hard work, overcome the challenges, and make the sacrifices it takes to be the best at what you do.

I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

We believe in our destiny. We do not shrink from any sacrifice.

Until the day I die, I am going to make my body a bridge so that somebody can run across it.

My faith makes me willing to do things that may look like there's going to be a lot of physical difficulty. And you just go ahead and do it because you truly believe it's the right thing to do.

When I was young, I would try to give the right answers. 'I'm going to try to slide.' But at the end of the day, I finally realized that I am going to do whatever it takes. I'm going to leave everything out there.

My dad used to take me to training in bangers, and we used to push the car. He would do whatever it would take, so I owe my family.

I pledge to give all there is of myself.

If I had to climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself for one of my films, I would do it.

At least I died trying. And I won.I never gave them away. I never hurt them. I did my best to find them. I tried to keep my promise... I die for them.

We know what you want to accomplish... The real question is, 'what are you willing to push through the dip for?' What are you willing to stand up for, bleed for, commit to and generally be unreasonable about? Because that's what's going to actually get done.

To hold on, you have to find something you’re willing to die for.

I knew I would not live to see the victory which I would make possible. But I would not die before I would make that victory certain.

I knew that, when needed, mountains would move for me.

I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. Whatever you want to do, you can do it, if you want it badly enough . . .

And that's my point: all great things worth having require great sacrifice worth giving.

If I’m committed, there is always a way.

Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed are you to winning? How committed are you to being a good friend?

There can be no progress nor achievement without sacrifice, and a man's worldly success will be by the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts, and fixes his mind on the development of his plans, and the strengthening of his resolution and self-reliance.

Every worthwhile accomplishment has a price tag attached to it. The question is always whether you are willing to pay the price to attain it - in hard work, sacrifice, patience, faith, and endurance.

Ain't no mountain high enough, ain't no valley low enough, ain't no river wide enough, to keep me from getting to you.

Maybe I don't have the patience to make a virtue of necessity - the patience to carry something all the way through, and to actually say something. Lately, the songs are more jagged and they don't really lend themselves to that. I just take it one bit at a time.

The world shall know that I will keep my faith to friends and enemies, come what will.

It doesn't matter if you win as long as you give everything in your heart