If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

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

I have only one counsel for you – be master.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

Sometimes I’m a bit under-aggressive and sometimes a bit over. But I think it’s good to have both.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

The big message of gospel is that you don’t have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

I’m not afraid to make mistakes.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Life must be lived as play.

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Why go through life if you’re not going to challenge yourself?

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

We named the book ‚Extreme Ownership‘ because we really found that when we looked at not only at leaders but at teams that were the most successful, we found that the ones that had this attitude of extreme ownership were the ones that did the best, and it’s definitely an attitude that I had.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

I’m not a serious person, and I don’t like serious people.

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

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Mine is better than ours.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.