It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

I have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I’ve had my breasts lifted – but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway.

You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.

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.

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

I always make my dreams into goals.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

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

Become aware of your own insufficiency.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

Please don’t ask me to do that which I’ve just said I’m not going to do, because you’re burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

God always wants us to be growing.

I don’t focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing, then I don’t worry about it.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time… I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

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

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

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.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

I’ve learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

I focus on my own job.

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

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

To make headway, improve your head.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.