I want to rethink ‚surrender‘ as an active verb.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

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

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

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

If you sit there and have that mentality of ‚triple down on what you’re good at,‘ you’re never going to grow. You’re always going to stay the same.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

I don’t want to be an action star, an action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

Don’t give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.

I want to appeal to everyone. Because I’m not saying I’m the best, but we the best.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

Only the insecure strive for security.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

I think I’ve got wiser.

I have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I’ve had my breasts lifted – but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

Resist the need to be ‚right‘ all the time or to always have the last word.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

I criticize by creation – not by finding fault.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

While musical experts of the world focus on what choir members can do, I would like to focus on what choir members can be.

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.