I’m about being the best.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Never regret what you don’t write.

As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.

Little by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.

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.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

Just do some kind of workout. Doesn’t matter if it’s going for a walk around the block, going for a jog, doing some calisthenics, lifting weights, going to a pool and swimming – you name it. But do something that gets your blood flowing and gets your mind in the game.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.

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.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

I’ve never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.

I don’t focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing, then I don’t worry about it.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

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

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.

I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Our work is never over.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, ‚I don’t want to become like Bruce Lee’s son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.‘ I just think my son is too lazy.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.