Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

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.

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.

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

I’m not a natural born performer.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

The first story I finished was when I was six years old.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

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

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

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.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

I’ve been studying the Bible for a long time. I remember that after the first five years or so of diligently studying the Word, I didn’t feel like I had made any progress. There were a lot of things in my life that were out of order, and I didn’t feel like I was getting anywhere.

I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it’s like a circus in my head.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

Don’t ever play yourself.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.

There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‚That person I see is a savage monster;‘ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.

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

I grew up cursing a lot.

Never confuse motion with action.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

We are what we believe we are.

I don’t have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

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

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.