I’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

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

The people who truly know me know what I’m like. There have been people who try to say things that aren’t fair, and I check them. And then they don’t like me because I checked them.

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 – and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I’m quite shy.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

Learn to say ‚no‘ to the good so you can say ‚yes‘ to the best.

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I’m going to grow artistically.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

If there are people you haven’t forgiven, you’re not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

I’m one of the world’s most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

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

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

I like pushing boundaries.

Nothing on ‚Relapse‘ and very little on ‚Recovery‘ was produced by me.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

I’m just going to say it: I’m pro-guilt. Guilt is good. Guilt helps us stay on track because it’s about our behavior. It occurs when we compare something we’ve done – or failed to do – with our personal values.

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

No one but a fool is always right.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

What is common sense isn’t common practice.

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.

There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.