People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

The Tao teaches us to let go of things. Use the 80/20 rule. If you take all your clothes, you’ll find out that you only wear 20 percent of them. Take what you have and don’t use and circulate it. Give stuff to people who truly need it. After all, we come into this world with nothing; we leave this world with nothing.

If you continue to keep low performers on your team, that are actually dragging the team down; you’re failing the whole team, and eventually, the whole team is going to fail.

Money does not change people, people change.

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

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?

I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

I don’t want to be an action star, an action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

Stand a little less between me and the sun.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

No pressure, no diamonds.

I’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.

Nothing on ‚Relapse‘ and very little on ‚Recovery‘ was produced by me.

My parents were dealing with evictions and repossessions and electricity getting shut off, and I just realized that I had to get it together.

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

It’s like, remember who you always were, where you came from, who your parents were, how they raised you. Because that authentic self is going to follow you all through life, so make sure that it’s solid so it’s something that you can hold on and be proud of for the rest of your life.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I’m still fanatical, but now I’m a little less fanatical.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

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

If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don’t be discouraged… just be willing to change.

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.

The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.

I have short goals – to get better every day, to help my teammates every day – but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It’s all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

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