If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

Once I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

The game is changing with songs like ‚Earned It‘ as opposed to it changing me.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard.

I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.

Bad men are full of repentance.

Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

Don’t give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you.

I’ve had no problem harnessing anger.

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that’s because I’m doing it wrong.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

I’ve always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I’m just being who God made me to be.

An elusive, enigmatic aura will make people want to know more, drawing them into your circle. Create such a power by hinting at something contradictory within you.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

I think everybody’s trying to get to a place in themselves where they conquer what they was afraid of; they achieve some of their life goals, kept their word about what they were trying to do.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

I didn’t get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

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.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Even if you’re happy with the life you’ve chosen, you’re still curious about the other options.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

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.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

We are wiser than we know.

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.

When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn’t done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

No one but a fool is always right.

It’s hard to be humble, when you’re as great as I am.

Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.

There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

No man is hurt but by himself.

‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.

Sometimes when you’ve had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you’ve already had.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.