The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

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

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

Women feel empowered when they can do the things that are supposed to be only for men, you know? It breaks boundaries, it’s liberating, and it’s empowering when you feel like, ‚Well, I can do that, too.‘

Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you’re under reproach, your behavior shows it.

The funny thing is people won’t let me pay for things. I’ll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, ‚Oh no, it’s on the house.‘

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

My father wasn’t perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

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.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

It is easier to be critical than correct.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it’s fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it’s applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you’re dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

T stands for being nice. T stands for manners. T stands for being polite.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

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.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

You don’t want to pigeonhole yourself.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

We should not underestimate ourselves, because if lots of individuals go together then we can accomplish almost anything.

I’m going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.

The way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something of myself as an artist, when I was 19 or 20, it became more about function for me. Like, what is this song doing to you? What is the function of this type of artform? What is it doing?

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

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

I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative. I’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.

I’m not a natural born performer.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

I don’t know driving in another way which isn’t risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other’s.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.