Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Every one of my regrets has produced a song I’m proud of.

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort – I think it keeps you going.

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.

Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.

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

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

I give opinions, not advice.

I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.

I am who I am and I say what I think. I’m not putting a face on for the record.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

We all have done something unethical.

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Thoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, ‚Do this, do that,‘ but it’s my demon who provokes me.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

When it comes to everybody else’s thing and their lane and their timing, I’m never doing anything intentional to, like, come after somebody. That will always be my biggest mistake or anybody’s biggest mistake if that’s their intention.

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge.

Passions are the gales of life.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

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.

You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

Joanne‘ is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.