If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

I don’t think a lot of people know personally who I am.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

I’m of the school of thought where if you can’t sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

I’ve read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home, I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I’ve read because he is, like, a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I’m not a big reader.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

I’m not very ambitious at all.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

There are two kinds of people in this world. ‚I‘ people and ‚we‘ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‚we‘ person.

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.

I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

I’m giving all that I have in this life. I’m opening up my notebook, and I’m saying everything in there out loud.

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.

Humble people ask for help.

Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don’t really know me at all.

You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.

I’m on record that it didn’t really traumatize me to do away with some people.

I’ve always written. There’s a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother’s papers were destroyed. I’d written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.

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

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

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.

If you only believe that you’re an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that’s quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America’s really large shadow and that’s not all that bad.

I’ve always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I’m just being who God made me to be.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

I don’t really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It’s all inside me. I am good at hiding everything.

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.