I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

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

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

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.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life.

‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

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

You can be happy where you are.

What I love best in life is new starts.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

If you’re in a workplace you don’t like right now, be encouraged because God will use it for your good. Think about it this way: He wants you to be a light in the darkness – and He’s putting His confidence in you!

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

God made you a masterpiece – be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.

You don’t want to pigeonhole yourself.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

I’m a decent cook; I’m a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

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

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

I really have no interest in myself.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it’s about earning approval and acceptance.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

Any hand that I’ve shaken, any person that I met when I was Joe Blow, now that I’m this guy Kevin Hart, has come back. That’s why I treat everybody with respect. I’m always a nice pleasant guy to meet because when they come back to you, they remember.

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

I don’t follow all the 48 laws. Like, I’ve never crushed anyone totally.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

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.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.