Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it’s unbelievable!

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

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

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children – and the next day, it’s completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that’s when I had to man up.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

I think we need more idiot control.

I’m very secure about my talents and about who I am.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

I got teased my entire school life. What they were picking on I don’t even understand.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

Aim for the highest.

It’s like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf… most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

I’m not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I’m just living my life.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.

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

Single life is so overrated.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

I did suffer a lot since karting, with my size and everything, not really having a clue what to do when I started karting. So I suffered in every category: F4, F3, F2. Not so much F2 but I’ve had to kind of play catch-up quite a bit and in some ways, F1 was a bit nicer with power steering.

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.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Even with my divorce and with everything, I don’t need money.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

I’m not the most attractive fella. I’m not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

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

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.