If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

I don’t follow all the 48 laws. Like, I’ve never crushed anyone totally.

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

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

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.

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.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

We work to become, not to acquire.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

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.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Life well spent is long.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That’s what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games – nothing like saving the world.

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

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

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

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

I came, I saw, I conquered.

Example is leadership.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

I knew I’d be in the UFC since I started my career.

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

Never regret what you don’t write.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you’re going drama just because everybody else does it. You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.

I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I’m angry about bankers. About the government.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares… if you don’t really work them.