If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.

You need to think outside the box. You need to think differently if you want to sustain what, for me, is my peak performance: the very best that I can achieve as an athlete every day.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

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.

I’m not sure what you need first – the players believing or others believing in them – but in the end, both have to think it.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

I’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

I don’t worry about stress. I create it.

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

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

Nothing will work unless you do.

I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music ‚made it‘ the same way. It’s all different. There’s no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ‚I know.‘ Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

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

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

I’m not afraid to make mistakes.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

I’ve never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

My interest in creating anything is that it be useful.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

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

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

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

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it’s more fun.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.