I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

I don’t go to bed at 1 A.M. and wake up at 5 A.M. and say, ‚Let’s see if I can get this done today.‘

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‚leaders‘ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

I came up from a difficult background.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.

Remember that life’s big changes rarely give advance warning.

It’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge.

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

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they’re between you and God.

You know, most people really don’t know me.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

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

It’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

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 selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

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

Be not a slave of words.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

When I had to make a decision whether or not an activity was appropriate for the Sabbath, I simply asked myself, ‚What sign do I want to give to God?‘ That question made my choices about the Sabbath day crystal clear.

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don’t recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

Example is leadership.