The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

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

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

Me not finishing school – in my head, I still have this insecurity when I’m talking to someone educated.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

It’s a frustrating game because the situations so drastically change at different times over the course of the week, the game, the season. It feels like brain surgery at times.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Fear is real, but so is love.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

People who pity themselves think, ‚Why would I try to do anything? I’ll just fail.‘

Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‚Ego‘.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

It doesn’t matter who you are – if you dream big and if you work really hard, you can achieve unimaginable results, and that’s really good for the nation.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

Nothing will work unless you do.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

The fact is that since you’re a divine creation who originated in the world of Spirit, you have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you’re here on earth. It’s all perfect… and so are you!

If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time… I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

I’m not looking to freak people out – eating rodents or bugs. I don’t do that anymore.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

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

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

I’m one of the luckiest people on earth.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

The highest result of education is tolerance.