Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

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

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

You fail only if you stop writing.

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

No driver is perfect.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

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

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

It’s really annoying for me. That’s not what I’m playing for, to be the face of the NBA or to be this or that or to take LeBron’s throne or whatever.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

I’ve felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father’s family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I’m going to grow artistically.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

Well, in order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times.

Dream and you shall become.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

On the field, aggression can sometimes be a positive emotion. It boosts performance and can lift your game. But over the years, I have learnt that restrained aggression is a better animal. That way, you will conserve your energy and won’t spend yourself quickly.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

A lot of people cry and complain and put their hand out and beg. It never goes well.

I like money, but it’s never been about the money.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn’t think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.