You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

Never complain and never explain.

I think I’ve developed, as many people do, this sense of, ‚Don’t say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.‘

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.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It’s embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.

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

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

I do believe in self-help.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

I just have always felt that people don’t change, circumstances change.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

You see things; and you say ‚Why?‘ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‚Why not?‘

Every three months, I’ll say, ‚Honey, I think I should learn how to cook‘.

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.

I love to watch times change!

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

I do believe in the old saying, ‚What does not kill you makes you stronger.‘ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and can’t do to describe something like war or history. I’m not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.