Getting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It’s a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That’s why I need to throw curve balls.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

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

Only the insecure strive for security.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

People’s blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

From the moment I open my eyes, I’m trying to free my body. I’m trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all – not in any way.

Somewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me, he just can’t be found.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

Observe all men, thyself most.

As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.

There’s no point in starting a business unless you’re going to make a dramatic difference to other people’s lives. So if you’ve got an idea that’s gonna make a big difference to other people’s lives, then just get on and do it.

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

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

I used to rush home to see ‚Match Of The Day.‘ Whatever I was doing, I wouldn’t miss it.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

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.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

Your life must be a progression towards ownership – first mentally of your independence, and then physically of your work, owning what you produce.