Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

The self is hateful.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane… There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

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.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock.

A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

I have made the mistaken assumption – and I will attempt to be better at this – of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season. And that is my mistake.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

Right now, we don’t have a very good relation with creation.

Never complain and never explain.

If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.

Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.

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

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

I want to rethink ‚surrender‘ as an active verb.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren’t worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

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.

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

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

Time is something that interests me a whole lot – past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

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

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn’t mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.