Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

I can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

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

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

I never say I am a guru.

I have trouble with letting go. That’s my problem.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

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.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

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.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

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

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

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

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

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

I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

I’m not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

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.

Nothing will work unless you do.

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

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.