We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

If you’re doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don’t know what was going on in the person’s mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

I’m one of them guys that tries to make everything the best of the best, so sometimes I’m out of control with it.

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

A man’s own manner and character is what most becomes him.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you’re above everybody else.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn’t want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

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

You don’t want to pigeonhole yourself.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Men must know their limitations.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Little by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

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

I’ve never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

Character is destiny.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

Don’t give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren’t as strong as some of the others, so you look better.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.