Have the humility to learn from those around you.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it’s a shield.

Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.

We all self-conscious. I’m just the first to admit it.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

Spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and fulfilling your purpose.

I’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

Every man’s memory is his private literature.

I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Working with a guy like Ice Cube on ‚Ride Along,‘ you learn so much. He’s a guy who produces, writes, and directs, so you watch and learn and ask questions. As you go, you learn and figure out what you should and shouldn’t do. I do nothing but soak up information.

I’m just trying to be myself. I’m not trying to be anyone else.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

I’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

I always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don’t think that anymore.

I’m an emotional person. Sometimes I can’t help it.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

I’m tired of fighting. I’ve always known that I can’t be an action star all my life.

I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don’t have any insecurities.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that’s such a downer, and people hate that topic. It’s not that vulnerability is the upside, but it’s better than shame, I guess.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

By reading, you learn through others‘ experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

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

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don’t recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

Thirty was so strange for me. I’ve really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way – pouty.

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.

Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

I’m not a person that socializes very well.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

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

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.