An elusive, enigmatic aura will make people want to know more, drawing them into your circle. Create such a power by hinting at something contradictory within you.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

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.

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

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

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

Dream and you shall become.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

I don’t have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

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

Be a player; don’t play yourself. And don’t play basketball. That’s not your sport, Jeb Bush.

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

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

I’m not very ambitious at all.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

You are victors, not victims!

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.

I’m about being the best.

I’m not a natural born performer.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

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

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

I look at myself like a show dog. I’ve got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

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

All cruelty springs from weakness.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

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.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.

My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.

I’ve been studying the Bible for a long time. I remember that after the first five years or so of diligently studying the Word, I didn’t feel like I had made any progress. There were a lot of things in my life that were out of order, and I didn’t feel like I was getting anywhere.

I’m not afraid to make mistakes.

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.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to be in combat.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.

The only shame is to have none.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.