I think you’re working and learning until you die.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

I like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act.

I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.

You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

I think Americans generally are not used to working very hard, in terms of working for the collective. I think in our country we have taken individualism to its farthest reaches, possibly.

Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don’t see what goes on underground – as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don’t see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

I’ve never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

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.

I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a sentence. I had anxiety attacks. Partly it was a way of personifying the situation because I couldn’t breathe. I was surrounded by people and by duties. I was a housewife and the children’s mother, and I was judged on how I performed those roles.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.

The risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

Men don’t and can’t live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don’t live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.

One must steer, not talk.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

There is one thing that gets you out of bed in the morning, and that is discipline. Because your dreams and your goals are not there waking up for you in the morning.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

It’s easy to forget who you are.

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.

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘

My concern today is not with the length of a person’s hair but with his conduct.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

The best is the enemy of the good.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

Dream and you shall become.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

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

We are what we believe we are.

I didn’t work hard to sit down and not work.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

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

Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I’m doing, I always tell myself, ‚You can do better than this.‘