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.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

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

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‚satisfactory,‘ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself. Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn’t care for it in other people either.

What we think, we become.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

Who wants to leave the door open to being dominated physically by another human being? Jiu Jitsu gives you the ability to not be dominated by that person, and to me, that’s real peace of mind. I don’t have to worry about that when I’m walking around in the world.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

There was a while when I was feeling like, ‚Damn, if I’d just been born black, I would not have to go through all this‘.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say ‚recognize‘ because you’re not… it’s not new.

My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.