Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

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

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you’re the funniest person you’ve ever heard of.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

I’m all about evolution. I’m the first person to judge myself.

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

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

Maybe I should say that memory interests me a great deal, because I think we all tell stories of our lives to ourselves as well as to other people. Well, women do, anyway. Women do this a lot. And I think when men get older, they do this too, but maybe in slightly different terms.

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

In this great country, we celebrate success. We don’t want to penalize those who have done well.

I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

When I was into my 30s, I became increasingly depressed by rejection letters. I had had the feeling that by the time I was 30, I would be established. But I was not at all. By the time of ‚Lives of Girls and Women,‘ I was into my 40s and I had become more thin-skinned.

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

All of our problems start in our minds.

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

Me not finishing school – in my head, I still have this insecurity when I’m talking to someone educated.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

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.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

I’ve always had a problem with the average macho man – they’ve always been a threat to me.

All honor’s wounds are self-inflicted.

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

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

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

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

Even when you’re 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

Unlike many of its European neighbors, Britain shares many of America’s financial traits.

You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.

I’m the type person, my safe place to be emotional is the booth.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I’m changing into the woman I am meant to be.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.