Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Not being afraid to be wrong – I had to learn how to do that.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

I’m not a person that socializes very well.

As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.

A lot of times, people have something that they’re afraid of. They’ve got a client that’s mad at them. They’ve got a project that’s due. And they let that stress hang over their head. I don’t let that happen.

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I’m working on the foundation.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

We live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

I’m not the same man I used to be, I’m not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

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

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

I’m a big believer in doing things that make you uncomfortable. So, we live in a world where we want to be as comfortable as we can. And we wonder why we have no growth. We wonder why – when the smallest thing in our life gets difficult – we wonder why we cower and we run away.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

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

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.

Computers make me totally blank out.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

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

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

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

I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Choose people who lift you up.

Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

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

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

Men must know their limitations.

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one’s sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one’s character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

I’m not a bad person.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

Let go of yesterday.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

I’m one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you’re doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.