We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people’s happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

What is common sense isn’t common practice.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

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

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

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

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

Honestly, I always believed in myself. For real, for real.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

There’s nothing like the endorphins from being fit, and the incredible endorphin rush that goes with that.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

The big message of gospel is that you don’t have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

A lot of people cry and complain and put their hand out and beg. It never goes well.

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

I look at myself like a show dog. I’ve got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

Boot camp sucks – SEAL training sucks – but you know what? That’s what makes you good.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

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.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

I do not abuse players. I talk to myself; I abuse myself. It’s my way of letting off steam. I do it after every century; I do not do it always. I keep telling myself: ‚Improve, improve from the previous match, the previous shot. You can do it.‘

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!

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

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

My rule is to break one sweat a day.