If you have the ability to pick yourself up by the bootstraps and start over, you come out stronger because you learn from whatever mistakes you made.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

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

You have to be tough and have a lot of faith.

Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you’re the funniest person you’ve ever heard of.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

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?

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I’ve got kids and responsibilities, so I can’t be my own test pilot. That wouldn’t be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it’s a sensible thing to do.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don’t have any insecurities.

The thing about Jiu Jitsu is it is also not for everybody. It can be very humiliating and humbling. If you have a hard time dealing with the fact that someone smaller than you may be able to tap you out, it is going to be difficult.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

What one has to do usually can be done.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.

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

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

I’m afraid to fail again.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It’s a natural process.

People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has.

I love money because I’ve earned it. I won sixty G’s with my first knockout – and the week before, I was collecting social welfare.

Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life – I don’t mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

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

With tech companies, whoever’s the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, ‚Is this the end of them?‘ And – there’s more – more times people think that’s the case than it really is the case.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

I don’t see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way – artistically.

I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

It’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

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