I’m going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

If you deserve it, go get it.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

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.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

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

I made my fair share of mistakes.

I think it’s OK to be confident in yourself.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

If you’re not very clever you should be conciliatory.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

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

The trained mind is a rich mind.

Even when you’re 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it’s like a circus in my head.

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.

I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.

One must steer, not talk.

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

Not being afraid to be wrong – I had to learn how to do that.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

I’ve never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.

If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

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

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

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.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

From the moment I open my eyes, I’m trying to free my body. I’m trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

I’m a big believer in doing things that make you uncomfortable. So, we live in a world where we want to be as comfortable as we can. And we wonder why we have no growth. We wonder why – when the smallest thing in our life gets difficult – we wonder why we cower and we run away.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

We become what we repeatedly do.

I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.