Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

Our goal is to make it so there’s as little friction as possible to having a social experience.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

I think the reason I don’t read is because, when I’m reading, I feel like I’m missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where’s my girlfriend?

Right now, we don’t have a very good relation with creation.

I like to do things quickly because I’m easily bored.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, ‚I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.‘ Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, ‚Yes, I deserve it.‘

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

In twenty years I’ve never had a day when I didn’t have to think about someone else’s needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.

I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

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 is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Never complain and never explain.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

I will be unhappy if I know I have not accomplished something I should have done that was possible.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

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.

I like pushing boundaries.

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Differences exist in practice and organization between the Lord’s Church and man-made institutions.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

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

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.