So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

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

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Character is power.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

I’m ugly.

God always wants us to be growing.

My dad used to have an expression – ‚It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.‘

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I’m just trying to create a good one for myself.

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

True Scouts are the best friends of animals, for from living in the woods and wilds, and practising observation and tracking, they get to know more than other people about the ways and habits of birds and animals, and therefore they understand them and are more in sympathy with them.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

My father used to wear the same pants for like a week.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

My future is righteousness.

A fit body gives you confidence. And there’s nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you’ll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

I’m a big believer in doing things that make you uncomfortable. So, we live in a world where we want to be as comfortable as we can. And we wonder why we have no growth. We wonder why – when the smallest thing in our life gets difficult – we wonder why we cower and we run away.

I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I’m not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I’m going to do something, I have to do it.

In art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

A great man is always willing to be little.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

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

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Nothing on ‚Relapse‘ and very little on ‚Recovery‘ was produced by me.