I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

Small aim is a crime.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

I’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

I’m extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that… it sounds, well, I don’t care how it sounds – to me, scoring comes easy. It’s not a challenge to me to win the scoring title, because I know I can.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

It’s human nature to gripe, but I’m going ahead and doing the best I can.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

If you’re not very clever you should be conciliatory.

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

I’m just like you – I want to be a good human being. I’m doing my best, and I’m working at it. And I’m trying to be a Christian. I’m always amazed when people walk up to me and say, ‚I’m a Christian.‘ I always think, ‚Already? You’ve already got it?‘ I’m working at it. And at my age, I’ll still be working at it at 96.

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.

I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

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

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Your Highest Self only wants you to be at peace. It does not judge, compare, or demand that you defeat anyone or be better than anyone.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‚hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

I don’t think anything about a personal legacy. I mean, those words would never come out of my mouth unless I just repeated them. Those things have never been important to me.

My whole life is a theater piece.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

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.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

I was raised to be independent.

He who is brave is free.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

I resigned from the Marine Corps and flying in 1974, even though I loved them both. I quit because I no longer wanted to fight for peace. Instead, I believe we can build a more sustainable peace by working for prosperity.

I love money because I’ve earned it. I won sixty G’s with my first knockout – and the week before, I was collecting social welfare.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today.