Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

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

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

I just have always felt that people don’t change, circumstances change.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

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

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

You either make dust or eat dust.

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

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

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

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.

I focus on my own job.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

I look at myself like a show dog. I’ve got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

The older you get, the better you get.

Be a player; don’t play yourself. And don’t play basketball. That’s not your sport, Jeb Bush.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

Learn to think continentally.

Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

I think it’s quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you’ve got another reason for keeping fit.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

I knew ‚Crenshaw‘ had elevated me and distinguished me.

You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

Observe all men, thyself most.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

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.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

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

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.