A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

I got my own back.

I’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

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

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.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you’re changing, emotionally as well as physically?

Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

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.

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

I just have always felt that people don’t change, circumstances change.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

Any hand that I’ve shaken, any person that I met when I was Joe Blow, now that I’m this guy Kevin Hart, has come back. That’s why I treat everybody with respect. I’m always a nice pleasant guy to meet because when they come back to you, they remember.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

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

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

Over the holidays, and even during filming, I realized that I actually like my body, even if it’s not perfect according to the book. I just feel sexy. For the first time, I don’t want to get rid of the curves. I just want to tone it up. My body is comfortable, and it’s not unhealthy, so I’m going to rock with it.

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

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

The self is hateful.

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

A great man is always willing to be little.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

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

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

I think it does Discworld good if I don’t write about it all the time: sometimes you have to get it out of your system.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.