The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

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

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don’t wish to have as their reality.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

I’m afraid to fail again.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

The reason I became 297 pounds is because that was comfortable. What was very uncomfortable was running. What was very uncomfortable was being on a diet. What was very uncomfortable was trying to face things that I didn’t want to face. And I also realized, when I was really big, I had no growth. Why? Because I was living comfortable.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

I’ve always been really, really aware of my insecurities – really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.

Never mistake motion for action.

Competition is a sin.

Little by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

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

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

I know that I came into the world with what I call ‚big dharma‘ – with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

I do not abuse players. I talk to myself; I abuse myself. It’s my way of letting off steam. I do it after every century; I do not do it always. I keep telling myself: ‚Improve, improve from the previous match, the previous shot. You can do it.‘

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

God always wants us to be growing.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

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.

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

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.

I’m really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.

Bad men are full of repentance.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

A lot of people cry and complain and put their hand out and beg. It never goes well.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.

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