There are no second acts in American lives.
F. Scott FitzgeraldI think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.
Jim CarreyI look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it’s like a circus in my head.
Steven WrightThose who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
Baruch SpinozaDifficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
B. C. ForbesWork out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
BuddhaThere is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
William JamesYou can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.
Brian TracyIt’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.
David GogginsIf you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
Henry KissingerUntil you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.
Napoleon HillDon’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.
Eckhart TolleI think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.
Elon MuskThe only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
SocratesWe identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
Alan WattsWe have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!
Maya AngelouWe are always getting ready to live but never living.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David ThoreauI continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.
Ayrton SennaAction may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin DisraeliTo not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.
Charles BukowskiI try to not focus on what people expect from me.
Lady GagaFew things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.
Booker T. WashingtonEach 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.
Pope FrancisMy 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.
Marilyn MonroeThe presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
Wayne DyerTo create something you must be something.
Johann Wolfgang von GoethePeople want to feel hopeful.
Michelle ObamaI am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.
Karl LagerfeldNo one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
Helen KellerWe need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.
Michelle ObamaThe best of us must sometimes eat our words.
J. K. RowlingTruly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.
Blaise PascalThe best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark TwainDon’t let schooling interfere with your education.
Mark TwainI was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.
Dwayne JohnsonCowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
Ernest HemingwayA wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis BaconI’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.
Denzel WashingtonMake bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.
Angelina JolieI’m really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.
Paul AusterWhenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Oscar WildeWith any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThink and grow rich.
Napoleon HillI think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.
Denzel WashingtonNo man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
Andrew CarnegieThe human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.
Theodore RooseveltMan is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
Jean-Paul SartreTo err is human; to forgive, divine.
Alexander PopeI made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.
Denzel WashingtonObserve all men, thyself most.
Benjamin FranklinI’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.
Kobe BryantThe competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
Henry FordFresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTo be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.
Thich Nhat HanhWords without actions are the assassins of idealism.
Herbert HooverTo be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
ConfuciusLet everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
Mahatma GandhiI wasn’t that great a chef, and I don’t think I’m that great a writer.
Anthony BourdainWhen one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.
Friedrich Nietzsche