People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

I’m entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they’re thinking and who they are and who’s hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what’s the story, really?

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

It’s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.

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

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

To go to the field and train and understand when days are less, that’s where experience helps.

I always have to be writing.

We’re hardwired for connection. There’s no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we’re trying to hot-wire it.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

To create something you must be something.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

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.

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

Learning never exhausts the mind.

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

The more you know the less you need to say.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go… if it’s not a part of your God-given destiny.

Mine is better than ours.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtues consistently.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, ‚I don’t want to become like Bruce Lee’s son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.‘ I just think my son is too lazy.

I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?

You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, ‚I release the need for this in my life‘.

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

We do not know what the rules of the game are; all we are allowed to do is to watch the playing. Of course, if we watch long enough, we may eventually catch on to a few of the rules. The rules of the game are what we mean by fundamental physics.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these ‚how‘ and ‚why‘ questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

I never expected to be anybody important.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.