Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

I don’t want followers.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

I’ve read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home, I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I’ve read because he is, like, a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I’m not a big reader.

I’m not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

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

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

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

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

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

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I’ve seen the profound impact he’s had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history… this is what makes you strong. It’s not looking out that’s going to do that – it’s looking in.

My reputation grows with every failure.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we’ve made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn’t care for it in other people either.

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

It didn’t even occur to me that I’m the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

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.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.