The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

We should purify our innate well of contentment – what a wonderful expression – and then external things will be in harmony with us.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

An unused life is an early death.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

I’m not the most patient of people.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

I got my own back.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

My problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it’s not about me.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

I shook up the world, I shook up the world.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

I’m a whopping 5 foot 4 inches tall. I’m not going to get any taller.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

I seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that’s it, and somebody else come in.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

Remember that life’s big changes rarely give advance warning.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

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

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

I don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

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.

People may think I’m trying something new by telling stories, but they’re just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That’s what I do.