No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Little by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.

The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn’t even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we’d never have had the light bulb.

The self is hateful.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

You don’t want to pigeonhole yourself.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I’d follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I’ve been very lucky.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

Lot of players lose hope because of lack of motivation.

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

Become aware of your own insufficiency.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

Being humble matters.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

In two decades I’ve lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

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

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

Hitch your wagon to a star.

The opportunities of America opened out to me the public schools. They carried me to the professional training of an American university. I began by working with my own hands for my daily bread.

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

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

My moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.