The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

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

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

I didn’t get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.

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

I’ve always strived to be successful, not famous.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

I think of myself more as a sportsman than I do an artist.

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

I didn’t play with other children.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

My whole thing now is I know how to think properly to be successful in all aspects of my life. It’s not about ultra running or being a SEAL or pull-up records: it’s about if you want to be better you, have to change your perceived limitations and take the barriers down.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

I think I had a mild case of Asperger’s as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately… you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

The question is not, ‚Do you have a problem?‘ The question is, ‚Does the problem have you?‘

Learning to live for others isn’t something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

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.

I thought I couldn’t make a difference because I was too small.

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

I think you’re working and learning until you die.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

Find people who will make you better.

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

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

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

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.

Being humble matters.

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

There are many things I do where the centre of it is… It’s almost more my humanitarian work than art.

I do believe in self-help.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

What we think, we become.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

I’m not really book-smart.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.