Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

Do I have chocolate chip cookies? Yes, I do. Do I have mint chocolate chip milkshakes? Yes, I do. I love them. They are fantastic. But when I have them, they’re worth it. I earned them. I did something. I worked out super hard. I stayed clean on food.

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

My one big regret is that I didn’t play on for ten more years.

If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.

I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

I was so ashamed of who I was.

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

Get mad, then get over it.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

What I love best in life is new starts.

You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

I’ve always wanted to live above my means because it inspired me to work harder.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

I’m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

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

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

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.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

I love money because I’ve earned it. I won sixty G’s with my first knockout – and the week before, I was collecting social welfare.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

While musical experts of the world focus on what choir members can do, I would like to focus on what choir members can be.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

There’s only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.