By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

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.

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

Before all else, be armed.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it’s fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That’s what I’ve done.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

Well, I wouldn’t say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

God created man, but I could do better.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

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

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don’t think anybody has held this job who hasn’t felt personally responsible for those being killed.

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.

I can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

Being president isn’t anything like reality TV. It’s not about sending insulting tweets or making fiery speeches; it’s about whether or not the candidate can handle the awesome responsibility of leading this country.

We should purify our innate well of contentment – what a wonderful expression – and then external things will be in harmony with us.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.

My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

Mission presidents hold keys of responsibility for the welfare, safety, and success of their missionaries.

I notice that my characters go out to dinner and have fun and take these great trips, but I spend so much time on their lives, I don’t have much of a personal life of my own. I have to sort of remember to fill out that little notebook on me.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.

When you go to an oasis, you go there to supply yourself with the vital things you are missing, things that you need.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy.

It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

The community – more than two billion people use our products, and we get that, with that, a lot of people are using that for a lot of good, but we also have a responsibility to mitigate the darker things that people are gonna try to do.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

I often say to people that producing is the best-paid form of cowardice. When you produce things, you almost always get credit if it’s a good record, but you hardly ever get the blame if it’s not! You don’t really take responsibility for your work.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can’t get it out, I start feeling bad about myself – a lot of self-loathing.