It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.

Self-respect knows no considerations.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

It’s an honor for me to represent urban music, reggaeton, trap and hip-hop.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

What we think, we become.

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

To make headway, improve your head.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

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.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it’s a continuing choice.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

Well, I wouldn’t say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

I can be a cruel person.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

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.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

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

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don’t wish to have as their reality.

Only you can control your future.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately… you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

It’s easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it’s easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

If I can be a leader, I will.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

As you think, so shall you become.

You have to be someone.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.