Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Every time you think the problem is ‚out there,‘ that very thought is the problem.

It’s very unnatural to be someone for so many people. But of course it’s very nice.

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

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

I got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

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

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

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

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That’s what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games – nothing like saving the world.

The thing I always say to people is this: ‚If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.‘

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Even if you have a terminal disease, you don’t have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.

When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

Without forgiveness, there’s no future.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

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

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that’s because I’m doing it wrong.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

I wouldn’t ever say if you’re having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.

I’m pretty positive, optimistic, so I always expect the best.

Actors search for rejection. If they don’t get it they reject themselves.