The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Once I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

The last suit that you wear, you don’t need any pockets.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

Life is a song to me.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.

The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.

I think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

When I checked into SEAL Team One many years ago, one of the things that I noticed was there was this old guy, who was younger than I am today, who I decided that I was going to be like. I wanted to emulate what he was doing, and one of those things was he got to work before anybody else.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

I always have to be writing.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

I tend not to really think about what other people say. I’d rather just try and focus on what I’m doing, try and win basically.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

In pop music, the public usually see the results – the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours – but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won’t make it.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

I guess I’m just inspired to tell stories.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘