Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you’re under reproach, your behavior shows it.

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

The test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

There’s an inherent danger in letting people think that they have perfected something. When they believe they’ve ‚nailed it,‘ most people tend to sit back and rest on their laurels while countless others will be labouring furiously to better their work!

I’m quite a chauvinistic person.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

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

Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

I criticize by creation – not by finding fault.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

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

The big message of gospel is that you don’t have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

I’m not a natural born performer.

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

What I love best in life is new starts.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

My reputation grows with every failure.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

Honestly, I always believed in myself. For real, for real.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares… if you don’t really work them.