Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

I want to make something that is breathtaking. Of course, you can’t make something that is always breathtaking, or you would never be able to breathe. You would collapse.

For me, education was power.

I hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

I have made the mistaken assumption – and I will attempt to be better at this – of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season. And that is my mistake.

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

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

I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

Become aware of your own insufficiency.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

For me, I don’t want to cheat the game by saying, or kind of doing lip service by saying, I want to be the greatest ever. I want to be able to show it.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

I’m not the most patient of people.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they’re between you and God.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

I’m not a natural born performer.

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.

I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

I focus on my own job.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

You make yourself broad. You make yourself appealing. ‚Hey, y’all, I’m cool with everybody.‘ That’s my message.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Choose people who lift you up.

When there’s so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you’ve already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

If there are people you haven’t forgiven, you’re not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.