Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Never complain and never explain.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.

I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people’s children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

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.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

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

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

How sweet it is to learn the Savior’s love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a blessed thing it is to see that the Savior does not forsake us but still keeps us and holds us fast and clings to us and will not let us go!

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

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

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

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all – not in any way.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

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

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.