Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

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.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

I’m just going to say it: I’m pro-guilt. Guilt is good. Guilt helps us stay on track because it’s about our behavior. It occurs when we compare something we’ve done – or failed to do – with our personal values.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

If you sit there and have that mentality of ‚triple down on what you’re good at,‘ you’re never going to grow. You’re always going to stay the same.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

For me, education was power.

When there’s so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you’ve already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

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

If you or I fail at business, we fail. If we cheat and fail, we go to jail. But if you’re rich and politically connected, your incompetence may be protected by a government bailout.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

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

Partnering with Atlantic Records creates the opportunity to take what we’re doing to the next level, without compromising.

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.

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.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

Character is power.

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

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.

I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies – I was Armed with Insight.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

Observe all men, thyself most.

As I’ve said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis‘ future.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.

A lot of people cry and complain and put their hand out and beg. It never goes well.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

Never mistake motion for action.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.