The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

Success has always been a great liar.

Your Highest Self only wants you to be at peace. It does not judge, compare, or demand that you defeat anyone or be better than anyone.

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution – they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

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

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? 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.

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

I am just one human being.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

My interest in creating anything is that it be useful.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Only the insecure strive for security.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Even when you’re 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

I criticize by creation – not by finding fault.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

Man is not made for defeat.

I’ve learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.

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.

In all my work, I try to say – ‚You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?‘

I am not afraid… I was born to do this.

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

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the ‚right‘ thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It’s like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.

It was such a leap in my career when ‚Truman Show‘ came along. It’s always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that’s OK because you appreciate it when it comes.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.

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.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.