Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.

I don’t do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life.

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.

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

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

I’m always trying. Between every book, I think, ‚Well now, it’s time to get down to the serious stuff.‘

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one’s belly, in order to be able to save one’s head.

I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.

I was raised on, ‚You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.‘

Good luck has its storms.

Over a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as others get pushed out of the market or burn out from working so hard. It’s really sad.

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what’s been on your mind so you can think about what you’ve been thinking about.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Be not simply good – be good for something.

I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

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.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

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

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

I think that I’m perfect.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It’s a natural process.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.

I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

My family, frankly, they weren’t folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn’t raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

I’ve always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin‘ my thing, my own way. And it’s been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

I’m here. I’m not going anywhere. No matter what the injury – unless it’s completely debilitating – I’m going to be the same player I’ve always been. I’ll figure it out. I’ll make some tweaks, some changes, but I’m still coming.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I’ll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you’re not on time.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

I don’t think any country is perfect. It’s our responsibility to do the best we can do to change the things we don’t like. I think that’s part of social responsibility, and everybody is going to do that in their own way.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.