Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

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

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That’s the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.

The best is the enemy of the good.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

You have to be someone.

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.

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.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

Being humble matters.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

Right now, we don’t have a very good relation with creation.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

I’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

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

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

I’m just going to say it: I’m pro-guilt. Guilt is good. Guilt helps us stay on track because it’s about our behavior. It occurs when we compare something we’ve done – or failed to do – with our personal values.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and can’t do to describe something like war or history. I’m not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

While musical experts of the world focus on what choir members can do, I would like to focus on what choir members can be.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Resist the need to be ‚right‘ all the time or to always have the last word.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

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.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

You can’t go backward in life.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

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

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.