Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

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

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

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

If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.

I’ve been studying the Bible for a long time. I remember that after the first five years or so of diligently studying the Word, I didn’t feel like I had made any progress. There were a lot of things in my life that were out of order, and I didn’t feel like I was getting anywhere.

Opportunity makes a thief.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn’t write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

If you gonna wear the mohawk, you stick with it. You don’t just be dibby-dabbing. You make up your mind.

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

They say somebody’s ‚street smart.‘ I feel like, if I got intelligence, it’s just a country smart.

I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.

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

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.

I think of myself more as a sportsman than I do an artist.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

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

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.

If you sit there and have that mentality of ‚triple down on what you’re good at,‘ you’re never going to grow. You’re always going to stay the same.

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to be in combat.