People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

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

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

One must steer, not talk.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.

If I can be a leader, I will.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Never confuse motion with action.

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘

I am in my own head most of the time.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

People have told me, ‚You shouldn’t bring your daughter onto the podium, ‚cause it’s the workplace,‘ and things like that. But I’m not gonna really listen to that. I’m gonna do what I think is fun for me and my family, and everything’ll be all right.

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.

I’ve never professed to be anything but an average student.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

If somebody thinks they’re a hedgehog, presumably you just give ‚em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.

Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.

There’s a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.

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.

I guess I have a little bit of an ego. I’m confidently cocky, you might say.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.