By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you’ve blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

Bad men are full of repentance.

Little by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.

I’m a day-to-day-type person.

To create something you must be something.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

I often work by avoidance.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

I do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world.

I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it’s unbelievable!

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

Never find fault with the absent.

I was never particularly fond of my voice.

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don’t regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

Mine is better than ours.

Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I’ll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you’re not on time.

I want to appeal to everyone. Because I’m not saying I’m the best, but we the best.

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.

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

If you have the ability to pick yourself up by the bootstraps and start over, you come out stronger because you learn from whatever mistakes you made.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Competition is a sin.

I’m a big believer in doing things that make you uncomfortable. So, we live in a world where we want to be as comfortable as we can. And we wonder why we have no growth. We wonder why – when the smallest thing in our life gets difficult – we wonder why we cower and we run away.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.