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

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

Say not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘

I don’t want to be too critical of what other people do, but when people go back to do the same thing that they did, I’m completely confused. I’m like, ‚Didn’t you make that movie already?‘ I’ve been very fortunate, and I’m well taken care of, so the least I can do is try to go forward.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn’t think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

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

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Aim for the highest.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I’m going to grow artistically.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

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.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

I think it’s quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you’ve got another reason for keeping fit.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

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 think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

I’m sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

I don’t make people bend over backwards, and I don’t like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it’s government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

Learn to think continentally.

I’m sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.

Stay humble and be concerned for the less fortunate.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

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

Because I’m small, I’ve been called things from ‚Happy Feet‘ to ‚Little Face.‘