It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.

Does anybody really think that they didn’t get what they had because they didn’t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

People want to feel hopeful.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people’s minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I’m a realist.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don’t be discouraged… just be willing to change.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

I’m not a bad person.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it’s government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Ego is only fine when it is working for your motivation.

How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.

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.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

I can’t prove it scientifically, that there’s a God, but I believe.

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.