Accountability breeds response-ability.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

I’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

Remember: your bosses prefer to keep you in dependent positions. It is in their interest that you do not become self-reliant, and so they will tend to hoard information. You must secretly work against this and seize this information for yourself.

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

Treat your children like the blessings they are or don’t have them at all.

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it’s unbelievable!

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

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.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you’ve got the chemistry for a lot of industry.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

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.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

If you have the ability to pick yourself up by the bootstraps and start over, you come out stronger because you learn from whatever mistakes you made.

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

I’m pretty positive, optimistic, so I always expect the best.

Defending peace is the duty of all.

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

For me, I don’t want to cheat the game by saying, or kind of doing lip service by saying, I want to be the greatest ever. I want to be able to show it.

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let’s face it – we all would like to be happy.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

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.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

My parents were dealing with evictions and repossessions and electricity getting shut off, and I just realized that I had to get it together.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.