I think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

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

Only you can control your future.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

Right now, we don’t have a very good relation with creation.

Passions are the gales of life.

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

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

All my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.

As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, ‚I don’t want to become like Bruce Lee’s son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.‘ I just think my son is too lazy.

If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

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

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

I’m not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‚If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?‘ And whenever the answer has been ‚No‘ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Character is power.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

There’s no point in starting a business unless you’re going to make a dramatic difference to other people’s lives. So if you’ve got an idea that’s gonna make a big difference to other people’s lives, then just get on and do it.

I used to get into a lot of fights.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.

My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I’m working on the foundation.

I’m always trying. Between every book, I think, ‚Well now, it’s time to get down to the serious stuff.‘

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Somewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me, he just can’t be found.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.