I’m just going to say it: I’m pro-guilt. Guilt is good. Guilt helps us stay on track because it’s about our behavior. It occurs when we compare something we’ve done – or failed to do – with our personal values.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It’s a black wall. It’s a thief.

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!

In art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.

I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

I give opinions, not advice.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

I didn’t work hard to sit down and not work.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

I’m only going to stand before God and give an account for my life, not for somebody else’s life. If I have a bad attitude, then I need to say there’s no point in me blaming you for what’s wrong in my life.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

If I can be a leader, I will.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

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.

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.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

I’m about being the best.

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Never confuse motion with action.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.