To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

I didn’t know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

The only shame is to have none.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

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

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

I’ve actually not read any books on time management.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

Don’t bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don’t feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

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.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

I thought I couldn’t make a difference because I was too small.

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.

Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

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.