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

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

Only you can control your future.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

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.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

I’m perpetually lonely.

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.

I’m pretty positive, optimistic, so I always expect the best.

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

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

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

When we build, let us think that we build for ever.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.

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

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

Observe all men, thyself most.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‚Oh, I forgot that bit,‘ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

You can’t go backward in life.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it’s almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself to deal with it and not dwell on the class in front of me – to keep a straight face, give the report and concentrate on getting it right. That’s normally how I perform. That’s how I am.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

I’m just going to say it: I’m pro-guilt. Guilt is good. Guilt helps us stay on track because it’s about our behavior. It occurs when we compare something we’ve done – or failed to do – with our personal values.