Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

Don’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short, and you’re too special.

It didn’t even occur to me that I’m the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

I’m fat, but I’m thin inside… there’s a thin man inside every fat man.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

I never got into training to be an All-Ireland boxing champ or to win a belt. At the start, I just got into it to learn how to defend myself when I got into situations.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

As you think, so shall you become.

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

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

If you deserve it, go get it.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

I shook up the world, I shook up the world.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

I actually don’t want a throne at all, because I don’t view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.

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

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

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

When people are lame, they love to blame.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

You see things; and you say ‚Why?‘ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‚Why not?‘

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.

My view is there’s no bad time to innovate.

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

My whole life is a theater piece.

The idea that to make a man work you’ve got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we’ve forgotten there’s any other way.

I don’t regret anything.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‚What’s in it for me?‘

Me, as a person, I grow. I’m like a chameleon. You know? That is a gift and a curse for me. But more so a gift, because it never puts me in a box.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.