The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

I knew I wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist – let’s not be fools – but I wasn’t going to be a bum.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.

Don’t bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don’t feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

Only you can control your future.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

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

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

Ego is only fine when it is working for your motivation.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

I can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

Being humble matters.

When one door is closed, don’t you know, another is open.

I explain the law of compensation like this: ‚Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.