Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Well, I wouldn’t say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

My company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

I think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

Little by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.

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

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don’t think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

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

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.

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

Be a player; don’t play yourself. And don’t play basketball. That’s not your sport, Jeb Bush.

It is always your next move.

Boot camp sucks – SEAL training sucks – but you know what? That’s what makes you good.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

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.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

You learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

There is only a finger’s difference between a wise man and a fool.