To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

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.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That’s the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.

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.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

The only shame is to have none.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

My measure of success is whether I’m fulfilling my mission.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

I don’t want to be too critical of what other people do, but when people go back to do the same thing that they did, I’m completely confused. I’m like, ‚Didn’t you make that movie already?‘ I’ve been very fortunate, and I’m well taken care of, so the least I can do is try to go forward.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

I’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

One of the best mental disciplines for people to implement is simply putting together a schedule or a task list and actually executing it. Write the list or the schedule the night before, and then do what you said you would do. Life becomes much better when you do that.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

I have only one counsel for you – be master.

My moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.