Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

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

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

Material things are delightful, but they’re not important.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

Choose people who lift you up.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

I don’t follow all the 48 laws. Like, I’ve never crushed anyone totally.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

It is easier to be critical than correct.

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.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

God created man, but I could do better.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

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.

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

I like to let things breathe.

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

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

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it’s government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

Ego is only fine when it is working for your motivation.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

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?