Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Of course awards matter.

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

Over the years, I’ve learned that a confident person doesn’t concentrate or focus on their weaknesses – they maximize their strengths.

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘

A man’s character is his fate.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, ‚Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?‘ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There’s a lot of things that come with fame – it’s what people in the limelight have to do.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

For me, education was power.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it’s people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

What one has to do usually can be done.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

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

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

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

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.