The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

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

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

I’ve actually not read any books on time management.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don’t have time to be depressed anymore.

Better is the enemy of good.

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Never confuse motion with action.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

Every three months, I’ll say, ‚Honey, I think I should learn how to cook‘.

I can be a cruel person.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

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

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

Why do you want to get a good workout early in the morning? Well, because it sends more oxygen to your brain; it releases endorphins. It puts you in a state of mind where you can crush things, which is where you want to be.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

Of course, individual change doesn’t make much difference in a holistic picture… but we need both systemic change and individual change.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.