I’m not afraid to make mistakes.

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

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

I think I should learn French and be a better cook – basic, really good life stuff.

A fit body gives you confidence. And there’s nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you’ll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

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

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that’s the way I am.

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

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

I want to rethink ‚surrender‘ as an active verb.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

It is easier to be critical than correct.

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.

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

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it’s applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you’re dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it’s about earning approval and acceptance.

To make headway, improve your head.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

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.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.