Achievement without the privilege to achieve means that we can be thankful for the former when it happens, but we need to be thankful that the latter allowed it to happen.

True greatness does not arise from the achievements in my life. Rather, it is born out of an appreciation for my life.

The risk in reaching for great things is that they might elude our grasp. But have we considered that the ‘reaching’ might in fact have been the great thing?

It is the aversion to fear that kills the greatest of dreams. And until the aversion to the death of our dreams outpaces the fears that kill them, what we could achieve will only be a dream.

In our frenzied attempts to catch up with life, we run right past it. Once we have run past it, what we are in reality attempting to catch is ourselves.

To forgo every achievement that would demand the sacrifice of our character is by far one of the greatest achievements of all.

The most critical time in any battle is not when I’m fatigued, it’s when I no longer care.

With God, the setbacks of today are the precise ingredients that He needs to craft the victories of tomorrow.

The greatest gains that we will ever experience arise from the greatest sacrifices that we have ever known.