I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately… you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you.

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Be not simply good – be good for something.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

I knew I wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist – let’s not be fools – but I wasn’t going to be a bum.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it can’t have.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Get mad, then get over it.

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.

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.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

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

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

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

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

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

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

My whole thing now is I know how to think properly to be successful in all aspects of my life. It’s not about ultra running or being a SEAL or pull-up records: it’s about if you want to be better you, have to change your perceived limitations and take the barriers down.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

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

Over the years, I’ve learned that a confident person doesn’t concentrate or focus on their weaknesses – they maximize their strengths.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

I’m not this horrible, evil person.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

The authority you establish must emerge naturally from your character, from the particular strengths you possess.

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

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.

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