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

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

I like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

I do believe in self-help.

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.

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

I used to get into a lot of fights.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

People should not make me out to be like Jesus; I don’t walk on water.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.

You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: ‚Yes, you’re doing the right thing, you’re always right.‘ No, they tell me when I’m wrong, and that’s why I’ve been able to stay who I am and stay humble.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

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

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

I criticize by creation – not by finding fault.

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

It doesn’t take much to make me angry.

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

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.

My philosophy is it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

It’s only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I’m skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I’m big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.