I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can’t be all that bad.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

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

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don’t have time to be depressed anymore.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

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

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

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

I think everybody has something that they’ve been obsessed about in their lifetime.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

To lead people walk behind them.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

God’s desire is that we excel.

My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

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

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

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

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

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

For me, I don’t want to cheat the game by saying, or kind of doing lip service by saying, I want to be the greatest ever. I want to be able to show it.

I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

I just get annoyed at myself. A lot of swearing goes on generally when I am driving.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

What is common sense isn’t common practice.