Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

You fail only if you stop writing.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you’ve blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

I want to appeal to everyone. Because I’m not saying I’m the best, but we the best.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Some people are jerks, and some people aren’t.

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

I’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

I’m not a regrets-type person.

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.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

I’m not a bad person.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

I was never particularly fond of my voice.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

Don’t give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

I can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

I think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.