My biggest skill is common sense. I understand life.

I try to live what I teach. A lot of things come against us in life, but we should try to find something to be grateful for, and see each day as a gift.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

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.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

I’m no natural beauty. If I’m gonna have any looks at all, I’m gonna have to create them.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

Common sense is not so common.

I want to appeal to everyone. Because I’m not saying I’m the best, but we the best.

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I’m working on the foundation.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

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

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition – such as lifting weights – we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

Only you can control your future.

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

But ever since I was a kid, I was always the winner.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

People have this capacity within them to set the world straight.

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.

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business.

It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.

Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

I’ve been studying the Bible for a long time. I remember that after the first five years or so of diligently studying the Word, I didn’t feel like I had made any progress. There were a lot of things in my life that were out of order, and I didn’t feel like I was getting anywhere.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, ‚I release the need for this in my life‘.

I’m not good at talking about myself.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

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

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

My rich dad believed we should all learn to take care of ourselves.

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