My whole thing now is I know how to think properly to be successful in all aspects of my life. It’s not about ultra running or being a SEAL or pull-up records: it’s about if you want to be better you, have to change your perceived limitations and take the barriers down.

I’ve read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home, I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I’ve read because he is, like, a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I’m not a big reader.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

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

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

‚Your Erroneous Zones’ was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

You make yourself broad. You make yourself appealing. ‚Hey, y’all, I’m cool with everybody.‘ That’s my message.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

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

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

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

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.

I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

Don’t give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

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

I’m not sure what you need first – the players believing or others believing in them – but in the end, both have to think it.

If I see something sagging, bagging or dragging I’ll get it nipped, tucked or sucked.

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

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

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.

Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

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.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

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.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

If we’re going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.