We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.

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

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

No man is hurt but by himself.

I’ve learned through my own relationship with God that He’s not expecting me to be perfect; He wants me to do my best to be in His will and take steps of faith as He leads me, through His Word and the promptings He speaks to my heart.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, ‚Can any of us imagine better,‘ but, ‚Can we all do better?‘

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.

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

I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself – let’s put it that way.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

Children always turn to the light.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion – it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.

I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it’s like a circus in my head.

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

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

I think we’re having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we’re always trying to do better.

Humble people ask for help.

I can handle pain.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

You’re not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

Only the insecure strive for security.

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.

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

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.

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 creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

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.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

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

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.