There’s a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

Let go of yesterday.

It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you’re under reproach, your behavior shows it.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.

We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

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

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

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

I’m not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I’m just living my life.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

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

There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.

I was a thug.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtues consistently.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

I don’t know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I’m a great gift to the world. I’ve been very fortunate.

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

Character is destiny.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

Don’t bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don’t feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

Sometimes I’m fascinated with how famous my work could be while I’m not so famous.

I was so rude when I was a little girl.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

Yeah, I was a delinquent. It was when I was in the ninth grade. I was doing stupid stuff, and the cops came into the class. I was humiliated more than anything.

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.