An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

I’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, ‚I don’t want to become like Bruce Lee’s son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.‘ I just think my son is too lazy.

Losing is tough.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

Boot camp sucks – SEAL training sucks – but you know what? That’s what makes you good.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn’t start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

He that won’t be counseled can’t be helped.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

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

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

I’m interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

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

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

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.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

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

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

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

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

I still learn, but I think it’s the best thing in life to have a kid.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.