Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

Life well spent is long.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

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.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

I’m going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

I like pushing boundaries.

I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

From the moment I open my eyes, I’m trying to free my body. I’m trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.

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 a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

I don’t even know how to speak up for myself, because I don’t really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.

I’ve learned through my own relationship with God that He’s not expecting me to be perfect; He wants me to do my best to be in His will and take steps of faith as He leads me, through His Word and the promptings He speaks to my heart.

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.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

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

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

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

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.

One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it’s fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

I hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.

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.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

People want to feel hopeful.

Power is competence.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.