I don’t want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

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.

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

I am fearless.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

‚Your Erroneous Zones’ was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that’s you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don’t really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

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

She is a peacock in everything but beauty.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

I focus on my own job.

Boldness be my friend.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

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.

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

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

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.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Resist the need to be ‚right‘ all the time or to always have the last word.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

Never complain. Never explain.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

Learning never exhausts the mind.

You learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

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.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.