Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

Winning, to me, is easy. Winning more is the challenge.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

I resigned from the Marine Corps and flying in 1974, even though I loved them both. I quit because I no longer wanted to fight for peace. Instead, I believe we can build a more sustainable peace by working for prosperity.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

I kinda live where I find myself.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it’s government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

You can’t put your feet on the ground until you’ve touched the sky.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

If you continue to keep low performers on your team, that are actually dragging the team down; you’re failing the whole team, and eventually, the whole team is going to fail.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

I’m totally myself.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.