I’m only going to stand before God and give an account for my life, not for somebody else’s life. If I have a bad attitude, then I need to say there’s no point in me blaming you for what’s wrong in my life.

Bad men are full of repentance.

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‚That can be me.‘ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

You know, most people really don’t know me.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

I’m chasing perfection.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

I owe my solitude to other people.

If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that’s because I’m doing it wrong.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

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

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

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let’s face it – we all would like to be happy.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

It’s not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do – everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can’t be all that bad.

Being humble matters.

I’m not a regrets-type person.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

One of the best mental disciplines for people to implement is simply putting together a schedule or a task list and actually executing it. Write the list or the schedule the night before, and then do what you said you would do. Life becomes much better when you do that.

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.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

We become what we repeatedly do.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.