Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

I’m not talent. Not considered ‚talent‘ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

I don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Jiu Jitsu is probably the No. 1 activity that I could recommend to someone to improve their lives overall.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.

I do believe in self-help.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

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.

Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don’t see what goes on underground – as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don’t see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.

I know that I came into the world with what I call ‚big dharma‘ – with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

You don’t want to pigeonhole yourself.

I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

The doer alone learneth.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

I’ve learned never to say never.

I want to appeal to everyone. Because I’m not saying I’m the best, but we the best.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

What I love best in life is new starts.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

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.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

Without tact you can learn nothing.