If you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

I try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they’re men or women.

Losing is tough.

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

Big results require big ambitions.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

Once you feel loved by the universe, you’re already accepted, and you’re not really concerned about offending people.

I’ve always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we’re young, we don’t understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it’s a blessing to have that support at home.

You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

When asked, ‚How do you write?‘ I invariably answer, ‚one word at a time.‘

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I’ve done it.

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

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

I teach children to be winners.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble and degenerate into negative thinking, you’ll magnify the problem to the point where it can haunt you.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

I think it’s very important to cry in the shower and not in front of them. They need to know that everything’s going to be all right, even when you’re not sure it is.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

I don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.

You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.

I am confident that nobody… will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

Sleep is all about recovering. So if you’re not sleeping, you’re not recovering. And if you’re going to break your body down a lot, you better find ways to build it back up. And the only way to do that is get a lot of sleep. So for me, I go to bed at like 8:30, 9:00. As soon as I put my kids to bed. Because I’m up at 5:30 the next day.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, ‚I don’t have time.‘ But that’s the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

Energy begets energy.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.