Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

I know I want to always do the best I can.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

You don’t want to pigeonhole yourself.

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.

If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

I have seen how leaders rule by intimidation. Leaders who demonize and dehumanize entire groups of people often do so because they have nothing else to offer. And I have seen how places that stifle the voices and dismiss the potential of their citizens are diminished: how they are less vital, less hopeful, less free.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman’s heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

You are victors, not victims!

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it all just hurts.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

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

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

Pessimism never won any battle.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

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

One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it’s fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

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.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

I’m interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.

If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

My interest in creating anything is that it be useful.

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that’s because I’m doing it wrong.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.

A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you’re above everybody else.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.