Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.

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

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort – I think it keeps you going.

If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

I think I’ve got wiser.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

The self is hateful.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

Never mistake motion for action.

A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

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.

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

It doesn’t matter who you are – if you dream big and if you work really hard, you can achieve unimaginable results, and that’s really good for the nation.

Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

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

It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

I didn’t know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us – more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

What I love best in life is new starts.

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.