What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

If you sit there and have that mentality of ‚triple down on what you’re good at,‘ you’re never going to grow. You’re always going to stay the same.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

I’m not a person that socializes very well.

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

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn’t a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

When I’m inspired, I get excited because I can’t wait to see what I’ll come up with next.

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?

Opportunity makes a thief.

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

I’m not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Any time we are misused or used for a purpose other than what God intended us for, it’s damaging.

When there’s so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you’ve already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

I knew ‚Crenshaw‘ had elevated me and distinguished me.

If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Every man is his own hell.

What I love best in life is new starts.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

In any decision for action, when you have to make up your mind what to do, there is always a ‚should‘ involved, and this cannot be worked out from, ‚If I do this, what will happen?‘ alone.

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

The best way out is always through.

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.