When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

I wasn’t a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.

Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

Things do not change; we change.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

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

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.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

I do value the respect I get from my contemporaries, but to have Oasis cover my song, to have Puff Daddy cover a song, to have Goldie come along to my gigs – that’s where my ego is at. To have my fellow musicians like what I do, that’s very cool.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

The only shame is to have none.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

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

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.

If I made a commitment, I stood by that commitment – and try to make it real. Because when you become leaders, the most important thing you have is your word, your trust. That’s where respect comes from.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

Today, we’re still loaded down – and, to some extent, embarrassed – by ancient myths, but we respect them as part of the same impulse that has led to the modern, scientific kind of myth. But we now have the opportunity to discover, for the first time, the way the universe is in fact constructed as opposed to how we would wish it to be constructed.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

Resist the need to be ‚right‘ all the time or to always have the last word.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one’s self on lies and fables.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

My fat never made me less money.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

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.

You have to be someone.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

One must steer, not talk.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

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.

When there’s so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you’ve already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I’m working on the foundation.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

It’s hard to be humble, when you’re as great as I am.