Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

Success is the child of audacity.

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Success is not a stop sign.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

People don’t usually compliment your character.

Find people who will make you better.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it can’t have.

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

I’m just like you – I want to be a good human being. I’m doing my best, and I’m working at it. And I’m trying to be a Christian. I’m always amazed when people walk up to me and say, ‚I’m a Christian.‘ I always think, ‚Already? You’ve already got it?‘ I’m working at it. And at my age, I’ll still be working at it at 96.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

I have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I’ve had my breasts lifted – but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway.

I’m sure I’ve changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up – as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I’ve changed my mind about some food that I didn’t like when I was young.

I use my celebrity status to inspire someone, to give them hope.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

The self is hateful.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.

If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

People want you to fail.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.

One thing that I find very unmotivating is the kind of Plan B argument: when Earth gets destroyed, you want to be somewhere else. That doesn’t work for me. We have sent robotic probes now to every place in the solar system, and this is the best one.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.