Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That’s the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

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

If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Order is heaven’s first law.

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‚Oh, I forgot that bit,‘ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

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

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

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

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

The humanists‘ replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you’ll either save yourself or you’ll be immortal. Of course, that’s a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there’s no ethical progress whatsoever.

I do believe in the old saying, ‚What does not kill you makes you stronger.‘ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

The doer alone learneth.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

We are a nation founded as a rebuke to tyranny. A nation of revolutionaries who refused sovereign reign from afar. Hear me – we’re a nation that says give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. A nation built on our differences, guided by the belief that we’re all created equal.

It is easier to be critical than correct.

I don’t know driving in another way which isn’t risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other’s.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

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

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

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!

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

I thought I couldn’t make a difference because I was too small.

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

Well, in order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

I’m not good at talking about myself.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

Never confuse motion with action.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

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.