Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

You make yourself broad. You make yourself appealing. ‚Hey, y’all, I’m cool with everybody.‘ That’s my message.

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

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.

It’s not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin‘, but I felt like a fighter comin‘ up, man. I felt like, you know, I’m being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

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.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

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.

Getting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

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.

If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

I have often been asked what I think about at the moment of take-off. Of course, no pilot sits and feels his pulse as he flies. He has to be part of the machine. If he thinks of anything but the task in hand, then trouble is probably just around the corner.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

The symbolism of the climate strike is that if you adults don’t give a damn about my future, I won’t either.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

I have trouble with letting go. That’s my problem.

Learn to think continentally.

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I’ve been working nonstop since I was 15. I don’t even know how to chill out.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

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.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

I am just one human being.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

I said that America’s role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation, and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.

To create something you must be something.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.