I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

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.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

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

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

There ought to be an artistic depot where the artist need only hand in his artwork in order to receive what he asks for. As things are, one must be half a business man, and how can one understand – good heavens! – that’s what I really call troublesome.

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

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

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

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.

If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren’t worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

I’m pretty positive, optimistic, so I always expect the best.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

‚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.‘

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

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.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.