If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

I love the attention but I don’t like too much of it.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

I got my own back.

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.

Humility may well be one of the most difficult of the fruit of the Spirit to be cultivated in us – and to maintain. That’s because without humility, it’s not likely that you will put your complete trust in God.

It’s not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do – everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

I definitely wasn’t anything special when I first started but I think I adapted quite quickly into racing and it became a bit better slowly. All of cadets, the first four years of karting, I only won one proper race, one! Which was the British Open Championship at PFI and I started 21st and I won.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

Quitting doesn’t enter my mind.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

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

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

Character is destiny.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

When I do something, I do it full steam ahead.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

Right now, we don’t have a very good relation with creation.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can’t move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.

In retrospect, I can see I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can’t be naive.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.