The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

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

Learn to think continentally.

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That’s the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn’t mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

For me, education was power.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.

I’ve learned never to say never.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

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.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But I had to really push myself to be a writer.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

Applause waits on success.

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

The special ops guys and the firefighters around the world have this great phrase. They say, ‚Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast,‘ and that is true. Everything I’ve accomplished in my life has been because of that attitude.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

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

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.