Anything I do, I want to do it well.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

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.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

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

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

A great man is always willing to be little.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

There’s a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps. What’s the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it’s exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That’s really cool. That’s the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

The big message of gospel is that you don’t have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

To create something you must be something.

It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

Only you can control your future.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

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

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

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.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.