Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

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.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

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.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

I’ve always strived to be successful, not famous.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

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.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

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

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

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

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

I think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

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.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.

By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.

To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

Small aim is a crime.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.