Jiu Jitsu is probably the No. 1 activity that I could recommend to someone to improve their lives overall.

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.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

I want to be an expert in different fighting styles, new training methods, new ways of thinking.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.

It’s crazy how fast you get out of shape if you miss a couple days of action.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

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

Being humble matters.

Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

The more you know the less you need to say.

Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you’re under reproach, your behavior shows it.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don’t need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.

If I see something sagging, bagging or dragging I’ll get it nipped, tucked or sucked.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

I was part of Jazzercise class. It was an aerobics routine accompanied by loud music, sounding quite awful to me. Jazzercise was popular in the ’80s and ’90s.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

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.

Aim for the highest.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.

People think hard sparring will get you sharp. And you do get sharp in the gym. But anytime I’ve trained that way, I’ve actually been a little bit flatter in the fight. And the knockout shot hasn’t come. It’s almost because my training has been too hard.

‚Worry‘ is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

I look at myself like a show dog. I’ve got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

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

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.