Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

My reputation grows with every failure.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

I’m always attracted to people who interest me. They’ve got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They’re interested in people.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

I think I should learn French and be a better cook – basic, really good life stuff.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

I’m not very articulate.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

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.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

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!

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.

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

I don’t see myself as ever being like anybody else.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

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

Dream and you shall become.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

I’m selfish.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

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.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.