I think everybody has something that they’ve been obsessed about in their lifetime.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That’s what I’ve done.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don’t wish to have as their reality.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

Even when you’re 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.

I really have no interest in myself.

I’ve been studying the Bible for a long time. I remember that after the first five years or so of diligently studying the Word, I didn’t feel like I had made any progress. There were a lot of things in my life that were out of order, and I didn’t feel like I was getting anywhere.

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, ‚I release the need for this in my life‘.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people’s actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

I’m no natural beauty. If I’m gonna have any looks at all, I’m gonna have to create them.

I like making things. I don’t like getting my picture taken.

I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

An unclean person is universally a slothful one.

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

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

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Be a player; don’t play yourself. And don’t play basketball. That’s not your sport, Jeb Bush.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

I’m of the school of thought where, if you can’t sort something out for yourself, no one can help you. Rehab is great for some people but not others.

There’s something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There’s something that invites all this obsessive behavior.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

If you’ve got a talent, protect it.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.

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

God always wants us to be growing.

The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtues consistently.

Everybody has talent, it’s just a matter of moving around until you’ve discovered what it is.

Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.

I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.

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.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.