I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

I think I’ve got wiser.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

One of the best mental disciplines for people to implement is simply putting together a schedule or a task list and actually executing it. Write the list or the schedule the night before, and then do what you said you would do. Life becomes much better when you do that.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don’t have time to be depressed anymore.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

It’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.

I’ve been studying the Bible for a long time. I remember that after the first five years or so of diligently studying the Word, I didn’t feel like I had made any progress. There were a lot of things in my life that were out of order, and I didn’t feel like I was getting anywhere.

Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

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.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

You don’t want to pigeonhole yourself.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

What is common sense isn’t common practice.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

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.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

I’m not very ambitious at all.

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.