Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition – such as lifting weights – we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

That’s correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

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.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

Stand a little less between me and the sun.

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn’t mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

If it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go… if it’s not a part of your God-given destiny.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

In my entire life, any time I’ve ever lost something, I’ve gotten something even better going around the next corner. It’s like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they’re going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

I’ve seen how the issues that come across a president’s desk are always the hard ones – the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.