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.

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

It’s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

You either make dust or eat dust.

When there’s so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you’ve already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

I’ve felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father’s family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

Pessimism never won any battle.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Quitting is the easiest thing to do.

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

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

I’ve done everything every fat person ever has. I’ve tried every diet.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

Only the insecure strive for security.

Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

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.‘

Inside of every problem lies an opportunity.

I didn’t die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn’t survive certain things… people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst… for many reasons, I shouldn’t be here.

If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it’s more fun.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

I am a grafter.

My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I’m working on the foundation.

There are certain things that bother me and certain things that don’t. Personal attacks on me? I think I’m just so used to it.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.