A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

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

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

When people are lame, they love to blame.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don’t need another plaque.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

I really have no interest in myself.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

I’m just like you – I want to be a good human being. I’m doing my best, and I’m working at it. And I’m trying to be a Christian. I’m always amazed when people walk up to me and say, ‚I’m a Christian.‘ I always think, ‚Already? You’ve already got it?‘ I’m working at it. And at my age, I’ll still be working at it at 96.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that’s you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don’t really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

I give opinions, not advice.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

I’m going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

A fool is wise in his eyes.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

People and organizations don’t grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses.

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

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

I don’t look at my old work. I mean, they made nice books; the books were made without me, the one from last year and the one from this year. I – personally, I’m not interested in my own past. I’m only interested in today – perhaps tomorrow.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.