A great man is always willing to be little.

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

To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

I’m always attracted to people who interest me. They’ve got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They’re interested in people.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

A man’s own manner and character is what most becomes him.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

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?

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin‘, but I felt like a fighter comin‘ up, man. I felt like, you know, I’m being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

People make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t go to my head.

Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and can’t do to describe something like war or history. I’m not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

I love getting out of my comfort zone.

I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life… I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a vagabond.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

Character is destiny.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

‚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.‘

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

If you deserve it, go get it.

Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

If you sit there and have that mentality of ‚triple down on what you’re good at,‘ you’re never going to grow. You’re always going to stay the same.

Nothing will work unless you do.

I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Humility may well be one of the most difficult of the fruit of the Spirit to be cultivated in us – and to maintain. That’s because without humility, it’s not likely that you will put your complete trust in God.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.