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

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

I know I want to always do the best I can.

By ancestry, I was born to rule.

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

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

They know enough who know how to learn.

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares… if you don’t really work them.

I’m not talent. Not considered ‚talent‘ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.

You make yourself broad. You make yourself appealing. ‚Hey, y’all, I’m cool with everybody.‘ That’s my message.

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

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you’ve blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

The doer alone learneth.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

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

Any hand that I’ve shaken, any person that I met when I was Joe Blow, now that I’m this guy Kevin Hart, has come back. That’s why I treat everybody with respect. I’m always a nice pleasant guy to meet because when they come back to you, they remember.

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

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

I’m never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.

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

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

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.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

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.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

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.

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people’s children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

The more you know the less you need to say.

Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

We may define therapy as a search for value.