Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

The good part about youngsters is that they are so fearless. You want to be like them.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

Let go of yesterday.

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

God’s desire is that we excel.

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

I’ve actually not read any books on time management.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

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.

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

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

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

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

Think and grow rich.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, ‚Do this, do that,‘ but it’s my demon who provokes me.

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!

I only want my work to make people happy.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

There’s room for role models who make mistakes.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

I can do whatever I want.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Don’t bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don’t feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

People who pity themselves think, ‚Why would I try to do anything? I’ll just fail.‘

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

I didn’t always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

It’s rule number one, really – beating your teammate.

Life well spent is long.

I’m not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

Never, never, never give up.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.