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.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

From the moment I open my eyes, I’m trying to free my body. I’m trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

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

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself to deal with it and not dwell on the class in front of me – to keep a straight face, give the report and concentrate on getting it right. That’s normally how I perform. That’s how I am.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

Aim for the highest.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

You’ll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.

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 important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better.

‚Worry‘ is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

I do not want medical men to discuss whether or not my work is valuable, because I know what it will do. I want them to tell me how best this new knowledge of rapidly restoring paralysed people to health and strength can be applied where it is needed.

Better is the enemy of good.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

I think I’ve got wiser.

A penny saved is two pence clear.

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.

Nothing will work unless you do.

No man is hurt but by himself.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

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.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.