I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

If at first you don’t succeed… so much for skydiving.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

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

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

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.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Now, as a nation, we don’t promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That’s an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

This industry has been really good to me. It’s been a great life. I’m not through yet. I’m ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it’s a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.

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

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

There wasn’t much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

I think everybody’s trying to get to a place in themselves where they conquer what they was afraid of; they achieve some of their life goals, kept their word about what they were trying to do.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

I already am a product.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

If an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.