An unclean person is universally a slothful one.

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

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

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

Success has always been a great liar.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

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.

The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

I’m not talent. Not considered ‚talent‘ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.

At the core, one of my original goals is to redefine what the streets expect.

Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.

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.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 – and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I’m doing, I always tell myself, ‚You can do better than this.‘

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.

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

I really have no interest in myself.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

I think everybody has something that they’ve been obsessed about in their lifetime.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

Being humble matters.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

The authority you establish must emerge naturally from your character, from the particular strengths you possess.

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

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

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.

Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That’s the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.

In order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

I try to lead by example, being conscious of others and being responsible.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

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

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

The only shame is to have none.

I have goals.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.

I’m not very articulate.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.