By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you’ve blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed.

People want to feel hopeful.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

If you’ve got a talent, protect it.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

My future is righteousness.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

When I finish something, I want it out that day. Pop music is like the daily paper. Its got to be there then, not six months later.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Your life must be a progression towards ownership – first mentally of your independence, and then physically of your work, owning what you produce.

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

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

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

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Too many people treat parenting like it’s the 20th item on their to-do list.

I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

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.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtues consistently.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

Friends are thieves of time.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.