Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, ‚Where’s the self-help section?‘ She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

If you sit there and have that mentality of ‚triple down on what you’re good at,‘ you’re never going to grow. You’re always going to stay the same.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

I have wasted my hours.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

People clinging to job security, savings, retirement plans, and other relics will be the ones financially-ravaged from 2010-2020, the most volatile world-changing decade in history.

As you think, so shall you become.

‚Your Erroneous Zones’ was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

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.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

Never find fault with the absent.

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

An unclean person is universally a slothful one.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Even when you’re 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.

In order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

They know enough who know how to learn.

I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

I don’t even know how to speak up for myself, because I don’t really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘

Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.

That’s the biggest gift I can give anybody: ‚Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you’re doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.‘

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

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

Talent is something that comes from within; it has nothing to do with age.