We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it’s a continuing choice.

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

You have a nice personality, but not for a human being.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

Maybe some people can wake up and play PlayStation all day, but that’s never been me.

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do – anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of – your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life. My way of dealing with frustration is to shut down and to think and speak logically.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

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

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

If you’re embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn’t include weeping, then you have some personal work to do.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

You learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

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

My view is there’s no bad time to innovate.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

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.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

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

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‚Ego‘.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.

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

Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.