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.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

I’m only going to stand before God and give an account for my life, not for somebody else’s life. If I have a bad attitude, then I need to say there’s no point in me blaming you for what’s wrong in my life.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

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

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

It’s really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day – 100% guaranteed.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

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

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.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

My concern today is not with the length of a person’s hair but with his conduct.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

If we’re going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

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

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don’t wish to have as their reality.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

I wasn’t that great a chef, and I don’t think I’m that great a writer.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

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

Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.

Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to be in combat.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

I’m not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren’t as strong as some of the others, so you look better.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Everybody wants to be me. What can I say?

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘