If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

Really, you don’t lose until you stop trying.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

I’m much healthier now.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

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

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

My biggest skill is common sense. I understand life.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

My upbringing was solid because of the people I had around me.

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren’t as strong as some of the others, so you look better.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

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

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.

What is common sense isn’t common practice.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

I’m not a bad person.

To reach a port, we must sail – sail, not tie at anchor – sail, not drift.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

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

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, ‚I release the need for this in my life‘.

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

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.

You can’t go backward in life.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

Only the insecure strive for security.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.