Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.

Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can’t stop marching. Even when they’re turning the hoses on you, you can’t stop.

Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.

I hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

Life well spent is long.

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.

A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I’ll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I’m crepuscular.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

Why go through life if you’re not going to challenge yourself?

If it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

I don’t need to be vindicated, and I don’t want attention.

The fact that you are willing to say, ‚I do not understand, and it is fine,‘ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it’s about earning approval and acceptance.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

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

The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

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 reward of a thing well done is having done it.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

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

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

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

If we turn our backs of the Scythians who have provoked us, how shamefully shall we march against the revolted Bactrians; but if we pass Tanais and make the Scythians feel, by dear experience, that we are invincible, not in Asia only, it is not to be doubted but that Europe itself, as well as Asia, will come within the bounds of our conquests.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

I’ve never seen myself as a star. I never call myself a celebrity or a superstar, whatever.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

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

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.