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

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

I’m living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

You’ll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

I want to lose weight because I want to be focused, meaning healthy.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

Stand a little less between me and the sun.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.

Because in a split second, it’s gone.

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

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

I think of myself more as a sportsman than I do an artist.

Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

For me, I don’t want to cheat the game by saying, or kind of doing lip service by saying, I want to be the greatest ever. I want to be able to show it.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

I’m not talent. Not considered ‚talent‘ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

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

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

I’m not a regrets-type person.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.

Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity.

I try to lead by example, being conscious of others and being responsible.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

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.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

A great man is always willing to be little.

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection – you cannot cope with the future.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

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

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.

The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.