The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

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

Women have to be active listeners and interrupters – but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

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.

It’s easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it’s easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

Knowledge is true opinion.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

You don’t want to pigeonhole yourself.

I really have no interest in myself.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

I don’t think I am evangelical in my work.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

Every man is his own hell.

My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.

The question is not, ‚Do you have a problem?‘ The question is, ‚Does the problem have you?‘

I think you’re working and learning until you die.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.

There is one thing that gets you out of bed in the morning, and that is discipline. Because your dreams and your goals are not there waking up for you in the morning.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

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.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

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

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

I’m of the school of thought where, if you can’t sort something out for yourself, no one can help you. Rehab is great for some people but not others.

I have goals.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

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

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

I’m not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.

I don’t watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

Well, I wouldn’t say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

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

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.