Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

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.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

I don’t want to be an action star, an action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

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.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, ‚He is not a lush.‘ That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, ‚Look!‘

He not busy being born is busy dying.

I think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.

I can handle pain.

When one door is closed, don’t you know, another is open.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

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

The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.

Be not a slave of words.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

I’ve been fortunate. I don’t pick scripts. Scripts pick me.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

The great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition – such as lifting weights – we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

I’m not very articulate.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

It is easier to be critical than correct.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

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

I’m about being the best.

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

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

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

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

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Character is power.