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

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

My father used to wear the same pants for like a week.

I can be a cruel person.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

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

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

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.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

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

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

Learn to say ‚no‘ to the good so you can say ‚yes‘ to the best.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

The question is not, ‚Do you have a problem?‘ The question is, ‚Does the problem have you?‘

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

I’m a big believer in doing things that make you uncomfortable. So, we live in a world where we want to be as comfortable as we can. And we wonder why we have no growth. We wonder why – when the smallest thing in our life gets difficult – we wonder why we cower and we run away.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

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.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

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

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that’s what’s happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

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

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.

Only you can control your future.

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

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that’s fine with me!