Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

Never find fault with the absent.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

It’s really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day – 100% guaranteed.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I’ll stop the whole production: ‚Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.‘

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

And winning is a huge thing for me.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

While musical experts of the world focus on what choir members can do, I would like to focus on what choir members can be.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

You fail only if you stop writing.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Of course, ‚I Will Always Love You‘ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

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

When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty.

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

Talking to a player helps, but in our sport the majority of learning happens from watching another player. You pick up things like being punctual, being nice to everyone, making sure you give your 100 per cent even in training.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.

Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.

I didn’t always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

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.

I’m a decent cook; I’m a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

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.

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn’t been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A’s without taking a book home. I didn’t go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

Our Heavenly Father loves you. He has created you to be successful and to have joy.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.