Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort – I think it keeps you going.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

We come bulletproof in Ireland. We’re reared tough, and we fight.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

This guy Clubber Lang, I’ve been him all my life. He’s mean and hungry just like me.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

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

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention.

I should be a postage stamp, because that’s the only way I’ll ever get licked. I’m beautiful. I’m fast. I’m so mean I make medicine sick. I can’t possibly be beat.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Time is the least thing we have of.

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

I can’t say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

I’m not a bad person.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

My upbringing was solid because of the people I had around me.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

I’m ugly.

It doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.

If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.

I will not be triumphed over.

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.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.