When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.
I wasn't born a superstar.
Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
Perhaps I failed, but I did my best, These masters of mine may do the rest.
I've never wanted to just ride on coat tails. I don't know, if you don't earn something then it doesn't feel as good.
I think anything you do on your own, so to speak, I think, is worth more than something that is maybe looked upon as gifted to you or handed to you.
If hard work, integrity, thrift, and perseverance have caused you to succeed, then you don't owe anyone an apology for winning.
One day in God's grace is equivalent to a thousand days of striving by your own efforts.
Prayer is not a substitute for work. First we have to do all we can ourselves to understand a situation. Then when we ask for help, sometimes it is very evident, sometimes it isn't. Sometimes we may well be helped by not getting a decision.
I did my best, and God did the rest.
I think it's incumbent upon me to try to be smart and make good choices and work with good people and work my ass off when I'm working with good people and I have to let everyone have their opinion afterwards. But this is what happens. You make a movie or you're on a show and then you have this experience and everyone tells you what you did. They tell you what you did. That's allowed. That's the experience of being human and subjectivity. That's it. We can only do what we'll do, and I can only do the best I can do.
I won the John Mackey Award, so I did something right.
I want to work for what I have. If feel if you work for what you have instead of it being just given to you, people respect you a lot more because you understand what it takes, you've been there and done it. No one can just say it was easy because you took it. You didn't just get it. You took it.
That's the only way that I can figure out how to live, is to say, "Well, I don't know what this adds up to, but I can do the best I can."
I did not come to NASA to make history.
I knew if I worked hard enough that I'd be successful and eventually give opportunities to others.
I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given.
There's nothing special about me. Nothing has come easy.
You've just got to do the best that you can.
I'm not one of those people who thinks they simply deserves success. I have the drive to work. Maybe that's why I've stayed on the fringe.
I'm working hard. I'm putting in the hard work. I'm sacrificing. I ain't asking for no handouts. I'm going to earn everything I'm given.
Nobody automatically believes in your dream. Nobody! You have to turn it into reality through your own sheer grit, bullheadedness and persistence.
It really comes down to God opening the doors for me, and I'm trying to walk through them doing the best I can.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
