Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

There’s people that tried to celebrate when I lost that got nothing to do with it. That’s not the sign of a champion.

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Don’t despair, not even over the fact that you don’t despair.

Inside of every problem lies an opportunity.

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.

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.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

Fun is good.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

All of our problems start in our minds.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

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.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

I believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition – such as lifting weights – we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

When you’re coming up with new material, it’s not always gonna be good. The only way to learn is for it not to get a laugh, so you can adjust it and come back the next day to see if it’s working right. Next time, you might get a different laugh. You’re constantly rebuilding.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

I have good days and bad days.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

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

These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.

I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash… If anything, that’s all giving me power.