Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.

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.

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

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

I didn’t always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

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.

Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.

The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

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

I give opinions, not advice.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

Only the insecure strive for security.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

No driver is perfect.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

We work to become, not to acquire.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

He that won’t be counseled can’t be helped.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.

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

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

They know enough who know how to learn.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

I’m much healthier now.

The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtues consistently.