It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

Right now, we don’t have a very good relation with creation.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

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.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

I don’t have emotional needs, only physical ones.

No driver is perfect.

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

It’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

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

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

Don’t give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I’m just trying to create a good one for myself.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

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

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

I’m a big believer in doing things that make you uncomfortable. So, we live in a world where we want to be as comfortable as we can. And we wonder why we have no growth. We wonder why – when the smallest thing in our life gets difficult – we wonder why we cower and we run away.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

I love money because I’ve earned it. I won sixty G’s with my first knockout – and the week before, I was collecting social welfare.

I’m very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me. I’m rather surprised at who I am, because I’m actually like my dad!

I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a sentence. I had anxiety attacks. Partly it was a way of personifying the situation because I couldn’t breathe. I was surrounded by people and by duties. I was a housewife and the children’s mother, and I was judged on how I performed those roles.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

There’s a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of 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.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

Don’t feel sorry for me.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

The work is the work. The work is not me.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

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?‘

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

I’m of the school of thought where if you can’t sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.