Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

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

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

Resist the need to be ‚right‘ all the time or to always have the last word.

I don’t even know how to speak up for myself, because I don’t really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

I have trouble with letting go. That’s my problem.

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.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

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.

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.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

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.

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares… if you don’t really work them.

Become aware of your own insufficiency.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

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.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

I’m gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we’re not being controlled, we’ll just do what we want.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

If I can be a leader, I will.

I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can’t be all that bad.

I like it when someone tells me ‚I don’t agree.‘ This is a true collaborator. When they say ‚Oh, how great, how great, how great,‘ that’s not useful.

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

When I feel I’m doing too much, I do less if I can.

We work to become, not to acquire.

I don’t believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Men must know their limitations.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

One of my direct subordinates, one of my guys that worked for me, he would call me up or pull me aside with some major problem, some issue that was going on. And he’d say, ‚Boss, we’ve got this, and that, and the other thing.‘ And I’d look at him and I’d say, ‚Good.‘

Choose people who lift you up.

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

You are victors, not victims!

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

I have rooms full of little dongly things and don’t want any more. Half the little dongly things I’ve got, I don’t even know what gizmo they’re for. More importantly, half the gizmos I’ve got, I don’t know where their little dongly thing is.