If you have the ability to pick yourself up by the bootstraps and start over, you come out stronger because you learn from whatever mistakes you made.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Never complain and never explain.

Little things affect little minds.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

I don’t have a problem with ageing – in fact, I embrace that aspect of it. And am able to and obviously am going to be able to quite easily… it doesn’t faze me at all.

Every three months, I’ll say, ‚Honey, I think I should learn how to cook‘.

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It’s because I’m not quite an atheist and it worries me. There’s that little bit that holds on: ‚Well, I’m almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.‘

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

I will not be triumphed over.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

I’m just looking to learn, grow, stay focused, and become a better fighter and a better athlete.

It’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It’s like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children – and the next day, it’s completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that’s when I had to man up.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

God has entrusted me with myself.

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don’t regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

You’re going to go through tough times – that’s life. But I say, ‚Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.‘ See the positive in negative events.

Because, you know, resilience – if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you’d be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn’t a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what’s been on your mind so you can think about what you’ve been thinking about.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

I was so ashamed of who I was.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

I didn’t want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn’t like it. I always wanted to do other things.

You have to be tough and have a lot of faith.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.