Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

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

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

I’ve learned never to say never.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

My rich dad believed we should all learn to take care of ourselves.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

Little things affect little minds.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Few people realize that luck is created.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

I’m always attracted to people who interest me. They’ve got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They’re interested in people.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

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.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

I’m no natural beauty. If I’m gonna have any looks at all, I’m gonna have to create them.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

I can handle pain.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

Even when you’re 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

Self-respect knows no considerations.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you’re going drama just because everybody else does it. You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

Power is competence.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

The best is the enemy of the good.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

If you’ve got a talent, protect it.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.