Talent is something that comes from within; it has nothing to do with age.

If I had any talent that God could give me, I would be a great diva.

I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.

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.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Few people realize that luck is created.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

I don’t think I am evangelical in my work.

Even when you’re 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

Everybody has talent, it’s just a matter of moving around until you’ve discovered what it is.

‚Your Erroneous Zones’ was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

I can hold my own when it comes to burping. I’ve got a good feeling that I could win a championship.

I performed in a bowling alley before while people were still bowling. Cut the check, and I will perform anywhere.

The question is not, ‚Do you have a problem?‘ The question is, ‚Does the problem have you?‘

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.

Prime time for men is, say, 35 to 45. Then they level off and fall off.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

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

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.

One is lucky to be born in a place where no one is doing it, because then you can say, ‚Well, obviously I can write better than everyone else in high school.‘ You have no idea of the competition.

If you’ve got a talent, protect it.

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn’t matter how good you are.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.

I’ve never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I’ve wanted the music to do that.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

I’m not afraid to make mistakes.

I just think it’s so important not to take yourself too seriously.

I don’t see myself as ever being like anybody else.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.

I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

I was a good football player, and I had a chance to play with some great players.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

I have no definite talent or trade, and how I stay alive is largely a matter of magic.

Think and grow rich.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it’s a continuing choice.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.