Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

When you go on your Twitter or look down your Timeline and it’s all great positivity – I love that. But at the same time, it can really divert you from what your purpose is or what you’re trying to do. And I’ve seen artists get caught up in that.

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

Your Highest Self only wants you to be at peace. It does not judge, compare, or demand that you defeat anyone or be better than anyone.

I used to get into a lot of fights.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

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.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

A calling is you feel – you look out and see the need – maybe it’s the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it’s the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was – felt called.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

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

Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That’s the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

I don’t know driving in another way which isn’t risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other’s.

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.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

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

To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.

I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

I’m not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

The doer alone learneth.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.

A man’s character is his fate.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

By ancestry, I was born to rule.

To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.