A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

I don’t know if I’ve ever cared much what others think.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

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

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

I was never particularly fond of my voice.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

I have goals.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

I’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

I think everybody’s trying to get to a place in themselves where they conquer what they was afraid of; they achieve some of their life goals, kept their word about what they were trying to do.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

If one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

I don’t think I get angry.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

I remember when I was in high school I didn’t have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

We are what we believe we are.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Small aim is a crime.

‚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.‘

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it’s government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

I don’t pretend to understand the Universe – it’s a great deal bigger than I am.