How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

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.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

I’m a whopping 5 foot 4 inches tall. I’m not going to get any taller.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

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

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

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.

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

It’s always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

By indignities men come to dignities.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

I don’t think I’m an unlucky person.

The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

What is true belongs to me!

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

I always entertain the notion that I’m wrong, or that I’ll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels good; sometimes it really hurts and is embarrassing.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don’t really know me at all.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Modesty is the color of virtue.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

To this day, some of my closest friends say, ‚Gaga, you know, everything’s great. You’re a singer; your dreams have come true.‘ But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you’re growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they’re true.

I write for myself things that I’ve gone through.

There is always safety in valor.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.