If you sit there and have that mentality of ‚triple down on what you’re good at,‘ you’re never going to grow. You’re always going to stay the same.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

I just get annoyed at myself. A lot of swearing goes on generally when I am driving.

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they’re rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

The first story I finished was when I was six years old.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don’t wish to have as their reality.

The rich don’t work for money – the rich invent money.

Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

I’m not a regrets-type person.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

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

Never complain and never explain.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

There are many things I do where the centre of it is… It’s almost more my humanitarian work than art.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

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

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

I’m not the most patient of people.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

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.

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

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

I have goals.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.