Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

When I used to play sports, I’d be the one cheering the team on, ‚Come on, we can beat these guys!‘ That’s just in me.

I’m sure I’ve changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up – as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I’ve changed my mind about some food that I didn’t like when I was young.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

To rule children by force is the technique of Satan, not of the Savior.

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

I’m not looking to freak people out – eating rodents or bugs. I don’t do that anymore.

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

Does anybody really think that they didn’t get what they had because they didn’t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Why go through life if you’re not going to challenge yourself?

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.

Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

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.

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don’t believe too much into inspiration, only I’m waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It’s a little too easy to say that.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

I’m one of the world’s most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

It’s a rule to give all, and it can make the difference if you work more. If you don’t have to give all, and you still win, what’s this?

I’ve discovered that when we take time to renew our minds with God’s Word, we learn how to think like God thinks, say what God says, and act like He wants us to act.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I’ll say that. Wonder and terror.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.