Don’t bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don’t feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it’s really let us down.

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.

Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading.

Little by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it’s one that’s easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.

I break orbital bones.

I’m not the same man I used to be, I’m not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.

My reputation grows with every failure.

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

I wasn’t that great a chef, and I don’t think I’m that great a writer.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.

The big message of gospel is that you don’t have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people’s children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

Ego is only fine when it is working for your motivation.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I’m working on the foundation.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God’s waiting room.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.

I’m a big believer in doing things that make you uncomfortable. So, we live in a world where we want to be as comfortable as we can. And we wonder why we have no growth. We wonder why – when the smallest thing in our life gets difficult – we wonder why we cower and we run away.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.