Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

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.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

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.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I’ll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

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.

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

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don’t know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

Character is destiny.

We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.

I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

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.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.

Humble people ask for help.

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

I use my celebrity status to inspire someone, to give them hope.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.