Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

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

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

I don’t know driving in another way which isn’t risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other’s.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that’s worthwhile, that they’re going to be proud to show to friends and family.

At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

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

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

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

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

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.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

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.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

I’m not a bad person.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

I never expected to be anybody important.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

Well, I wouldn’t say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

I use my celebrity status to inspire someone, to give them hope.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that’s because I’m doing it wrong.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

I’m not talent. Not considered ‚talent‘ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

I tell my fellow reggaetoneros, keep giving it your all and bring more creativity.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.