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

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

I don’t think I get angry.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

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

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

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.

Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

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.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

You can’t go backward in life.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

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

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

People are so caught in a routine, doing the same things over and over.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.

Sometimes I’m a bit under-aggressive and sometimes a bit over. But I think it’s good to have both.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

You can’t think; you just gotta do things.

You’re not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

What one has to do usually can be done.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I’m working on the foundation.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

I didn’t get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.

Stand a little less between me and the sun.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

I don’t have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.