We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

I’ve never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

My dad used to have an expression – ‚It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.‘

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people – their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

I actually don’t want a throne at all, because I don’t view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

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

Character is destiny.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

I’m of the school of thought where, if you can’t sort something out for yourself, no one can help you. Rehab is great for some people but not others.

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

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

I have to write because if I don’t get something down then after a while I feel it’s going to bang the side of my head off.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing.

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

I still think I am the greatest.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

I thought one should have the attitude of ‚What do you care what other people think!‘

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.

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

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

I’d be so bored if I wasn’t going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I’m going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.

Getting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.

I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

The question is not, ‚Do you have a problem?‘ The question is, ‚Does the problem have you?‘

Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap – it is all in the mind.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.