My reputation grows with every failure.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

A great man is always willing to be little.

I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

I just have always felt that people don’t change, circumstances change.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

‚9 to 5,‘ that little song, that little story, just won’t ever end. Just like ‚I Will Always Love You,‘ it just keeps comin‘ back, popping up its head in one way or another.

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

I was willing to accept what I couldn’t change.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.

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.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

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.

From my close observation of writers… they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

If you’re going to spend two years of your life on something, it has to matter to you; you have to be passionate about it.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say ‚recognize‘ because you’re not… it’s not new.

My mother did not like children.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.

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.

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

If you’ve got a talent, protect it.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

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

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

I’m perpetually lonely.

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.