Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

You either make dust or eat dust.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.

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

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

I’m a decent cook; I’m a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers.

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one’s sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one’s character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

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

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Little things affect little minds.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

On the field, aggression can sometimes be a positive emotion. It boosts performance and can lift your game. But over the years, I have learnt that restrained aggression is a better animal. That way, you will conserve your energy and won’t spend yourself quickly.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

Competition is a sin.

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

The only shame is to have none.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

I have only one counsel for you – be master.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

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.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it’s government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

Character is power.

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

We work to become, not to acquire.