Don't speak to me about your religion; first show it to me in how you treat other people. Don't tell me how much you love your God; show me in how much you love all God's children. Don't preach to me your passion for your faith; teach me through your compassion for your neighbors. In the end, I'm not as interested in what you have to tell or sell as I am in how you choose to live and give.
No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, enthusiasm over lethargy, love over hate. This is our true freedom. Whatever life may throw at us, we have the freedom and ability to choose our attitude. And I believe it is in those moments of choice that we manifest our destiny.
It is okay not to like someone, but it is never okay to try and degrade, humiliate, or dehumanize them.
Leadership is not a position or a title, it is action and example.
Don't let your inability to do everything undermine your determination to do something.
When happy, be kind. When angry, be kind. When hopeful, be kind. When discouraged, be kind. When ever, be kind.
The right attitude can transform a barrier into a blessing, an obstacle into an opportunity or a stumbling block into a stepping stone.
First class in life has nothing to do with the clothes you wear, the car you drive or the house you live in. First class is and always will be about the content of your character, the quality of your ideas and the kindness in your heart.
Before you speak to me about your religion, first show it to me in how you treat other people. Before you tell me how much you love your God, show me in how much you love all His children.
Give more than is expected, love more than seems wise, serve more than seems necessary, and help more than is asked.
Dream big & have huge ambition, but never forget life is lived in small moments and sustained by simple acts of love.
No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, love over hate.
Let your critics make you humble, and your enemies make you wise. Learn from every stumble but let nothing keep you down, for you were born to rise!
In life, it is never the big battle, the big moment, the big speech, the big election. That does not change things. What changes things is every day, getting up and rendering small acts of service and love beyond that what's expected of you or required of you.
You need to understand something, you drink deeply from wells of freedom and liberty and opportunity that you did not dig. You eat lavishly from banquet tables prepared for you by your ancestors. You sit under the shade of trees that you did not plant or cultivate or care for. You have a choice in life, you can just sit back, getting fat, dumb, and happy, consuming all the blessings put before you, or it can metabolize inside of you, become fuel to get you into the fight, to make this democracy real, to make it true to its words that we can be a nation of liberty and justice for all.
You cannot find what you do not seek. You cannot grasp when you do not reach. Your dreams won't come up to your front door. You have got to take a leap if you want to soar.
If you want extraordinary results you must put in extraordinary effort.
I caution anyone who in their protest becomes the very thing that they're protesting against. Meaning turning to hateful speech, violating principles and ideals that are sacred in America. We need to raise our voices, but we do not need to indulge in hate.
If you want the things people don't have, you have to do the things other people will not do.
May we help more than we hurt, may we seek to understand more than be understood and may we love more than we judge.
The more you limit your choices, thereby limiting thought, the more you can simplify your life and focus your energy elsewhere.
Remember that the biggest thing you could do today is a small act of kindness.
Give the respect you want to receive; embody the grace you hope to encounter; and help others with no expectations whatsoever.
Greatness is helping others realize they are great, beautiful and capable. Genius is seeing the wonder and possibility in those others ignore.
Never let your soul be silenced. Live life out loud. Every day tell your truth not with words but with actions from your heart.
