Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.

One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

You’re not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

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

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

I try to live what I teach. A lot of things come against us in life, but we should try to find something to be grateful for, and see each day as a gift.

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

I’m ugly.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.

The best is the enemy of the good.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

I know that I came into the world with what I call ‚big dharma‘ – with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

I try to lead by example, being conscious of others and being responsible.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

I’m not really book-smart.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

I have goals.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

I feel you’re in charge of your own situation.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

I’m not good at talking about myself.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

You have to be someone.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it’s a continuing choice.

I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Being humble matters.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

I know I want to always do the best I can.

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

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.