There’s an inherent danger in letting people think that they have perfected something. When they believe they’ve ‚nailed it,‘ most people tend to sit back and rest on their laurels while countless others will be labouring furiously to better their work!

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

I’m not this horrible, evil person.

I don’t think there is anything wrong in earning money from the sport you love. If you work hard and get benefits from it, there is no harm. The day you feel that you are not working hard and are only looking at the benefits, that’s where the problem is.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

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.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

It’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.

As you think, so shall you become.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

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

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can’t be all that bad.

Learn to think continentally.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

Be as you wish to seem.

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

I’m a big perfectionist! I’m trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

Your Highest Self only wants you to be at peace. It does not judge, compare, or demand that you defeat anyone or be better than anyone.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.

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

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn’t mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

Nothing will work unless you do.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

If you are surrounded by your competition and you are outworking these people, outmaneuvering these people, it’s hard not to let your confidence take over. It just builds and builds and builds.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.