He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you’re the funniest person you’ve ever heard of.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

I do not abuse players. I talk to myself; I abuse myself. It’s my way of letting off steam. I do it after every century; I do not do it always. I keep telling myself: ‚Improve, improve from the previous match, the previous shot. You can do it.‘

It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‚That can be me.‘ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I’m just trying to create a good one for myself.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

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

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

I have goals.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

If you’re going to spend two years of your life on something, it has to matter to you; you have to be passionate about it.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

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.

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go… if it’s not a part of your God-given destiny.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I’ll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I’m crepuscular.

Sometimes, it’s just easier to say yes to that extra snack or dessert, because frankly, it is exhausting to keep saying no. It’s exhausting to plead with our kids to eat just one more bite of vegetables.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

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

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn’t feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.