I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

I’m perpetually lonely.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

I do believe in the old saying, ‚What does not kill you makes you stronger.‘ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

There’s an inherent danger in letting people think that they have perfected something. When they believe they’ve ‚nailed it,‘ most people tend to sit back and rest on their laurels while countless others will be labouring furiously to better their work!

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It’s a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That’s why I need to throw curve balls.

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

He who angers you conquers you.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

It’s really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day – 100% guaranteed.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

A promise must never be broken.

Yes, sir, no, sir, clock in, clock out. Why were you late? Why are you not in today? That’s not how humans are supposed to live.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

I used to get into a lot of fights.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn’t write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you’re expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you’re not asking for it.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

I’m not a person that socializes very well.

I think and that is all that I am.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares… if you don’t really work them.

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.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

Does anybody really think that they didn’t get what they had because they didn’t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.

Never mistake motion for action.

The book you don’t read won’t help.