The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

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

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Never mistake motion for action.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

My whole thing now is I know how to think properly to be successful in all aspects of my life. It’s not about ultra running or being a SEAL or pull-up records: it’s about if you want to be better you, have to change your perceived limitations and take the barriers down.

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.

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

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

I just have always felt that people don’t change, circumstances change.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

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

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

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.

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

A lot of people cry and complain and put their hand out and beg. It never goes well.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

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.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

Small aim is a crime.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

I’ve read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home, I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I’ve read because he is, like, a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I’m not a big reader.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself to deal with it and not dwell on the class in front of me – to keep a straight face, give the report and concentrate on getting it right. That’s normally how I perform. That’s how I am.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

From the moment I open my eyes, I’m trying to free my body. I’m trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.