Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Don’t ever play yourself.

Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.

I’m not talent. Not considered ‚talent‘ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one’s sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one’s character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

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

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

Character is destiny.

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.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

Never mistake motion for action.

I’ve never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

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.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

While musical experts of the world focus on what choir members can do, I would like to focus on what choir members can be.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

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

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

I’m always trying. Between every book, I think, ‚Well now, it’s time to get down to the serious stuff.‘

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

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

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

I’m not good at talking about myself.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

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

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.