Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

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

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

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

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares… if you don’t really work them.

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

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

I think it’s quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you’ve got another reason for keeping fit.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

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.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

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

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

If you deserve it, go get it.

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.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

I have only one counsel for you – be master.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

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.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

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

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Everybody wants to be me. What can I say?

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

Never find fault with the absent.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.