The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

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.

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

If you’re living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Never complain and never explain.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.

That’s when you know you’re the greatest: when you’re the greatest, and people still put odds against you.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.

Competition is a sin.

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

I’m not a bad person.

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.

The emotion to handle the pressure is one of the biggest challenges in football – it’s the top challenge.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition – such as lifting weights – we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

I don’t see myself as ever being like anybody else.

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

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

Nothing will work unless you do.