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

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

Surely our job while we’re here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

I grew up cursing a lot.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

We moralize among ruins.

To make headway, improve your head.

Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don’t wish to have as their reality.

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what’s been on your mind so you can think about what you’ve been thinking about.

Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

The good is the beautiful.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

You’ll see it when you believe it.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

Reactive people… are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‚That can be me.‘ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

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.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that’s what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.

The ‚I think‘ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‚I breathe‘ which actually does accompany them.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

I have wasted my hours.

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don’t live angry, let go now!

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

Forever is composed of nows.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it’s applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you’re dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.