Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

I’ve learned never to say never.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

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

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

Our God is a forgiving God.

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.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

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

Resist the need to be ‚right‘ all the time or to always have the last word.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let’s face it – we all would like to be happy.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

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

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

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it’s about earning approval and acceptance.

Bad men are full of repentance.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

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

To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

As you think, so shall you become.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

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