I don’t want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

In order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

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

One of life’s terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they’re doing.

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Does anybody really think that they didn’t get what they had because they didn’t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business.

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

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

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.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

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.

Most of the stuff I try in a game, in the moment, I have supreme confidence I’m going to execute it.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

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.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

I’m not a star. I don’t feel I’m so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you’ve got my signature on a piece of paper?

If I can be a leader, I will.

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

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

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

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

I’m confident with my ability.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that’s fine with me!

The beauty of me being on stage is I have a voice.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

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

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.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

I say that in the most humble way: I always knew that I could perform with the best of ‚em and I could deliver with the best of ‚em.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.