For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

My drive is other people’s success.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

One is lucky to be born in a place where no one is doing it, because then you can say, ‚Well, obviously I can write better than everyone else in high school.‘ You have no idea of the competition.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

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

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

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

It’s really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day – 100% guaranteed.

I don’t want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.

I still consider myself a little, fat kid from Hawaii.

The time is always right to do what is right.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

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.

Energy begets energy.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

In a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

Everyone calls me Bruno; they don’t ever call me Peter – that was just my government name.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

My one big regret is that I didn’t play on for ten more years.

Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don’t ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It’s like, ‚Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.‘

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

I’m aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

I think that at the start of a game, you’re always playing to win, and then maybe if you’re ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

I don’t have any regrets. I made all my own decisions.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

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

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

Only you can control your future.

I look at myself like a show dog. I’ve got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?