Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.

I don’t think I’m tangible to myself.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

I want you to be everything that’s you, deep at the center of your being.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

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

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

I hate to be smart.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

I’m not a person that socializes very well.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

I’m a whopping 5 foot 4 inches tall. I’m not going to get any taller.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.

The most challenging project I’ve ever done, I think, is every single thing I’ve ever tried to do. It’s never easy.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

I’m just like you – I want to be a good human being. I’m doing my best, and I’m working at it. And I’m trying to be a Christian. I’m always amazed when people walk up to me and say, ‚I’m a Christian.‘ I always think, ‚Already? You’ve already got it?‘ I’m working at it. And at my age, I’ll still be working at it at 96.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

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

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

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

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

We cannot learn men from books.

Playing in MLS was a great experience. It has boosted my confidence and I feel I have matured as a player.

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.

I’m crazy, but I’m not too crazy.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.

I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is – this thing that happens to everyone, so I’ve heard.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that’s the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.

I don’t feel too much pressure. I only see an opportunity.

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.