Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

And winning is a huge thing for me.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

I used to get into a lot of fights.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

At one point, I didn’t care. Now I want as many people to hear my music as possible.

One thing I’ve tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

They know enough who know how to learn.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

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.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

I don’t feel too much pressure. I only see an opportunity.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

I have retired, but if there’s anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

Being humble matters.

We should purify our innate well of contentment – what a wonderful expression – and then external things will be in harmony with us.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

I do believe in self-help.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

Boot camp sucks – SEAL training sucks – but you know what? That’s what makes you good.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they’re between you and God.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

I’m always trying. Between every book, I think, ‚Well now, it’s time to get down to the serious stuff.‘

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Let go of yesterday.

It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.