It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

I already am a product.

I criticize by creation – not by finding fault.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

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

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

When I signed up for BFC, then-coach Ashley Westwood wanted me to play on the left as an attacking midfielder. I was not sure initially but I believed in his vision. For the first six-seven games, I didn’t really know what I was doing. I was like a headless chicken. But he kept backing me.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

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.

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.

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

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

Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

I’m not really book-smart.

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.

I’ve learned never to say never.

As you think, so shall you become.

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.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

Mine is better than ours.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

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.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, ‚I release the need for this in my life‘.

I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

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.

I am just one human being.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.