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?

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

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.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn’t done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.

If we’re going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.

I’m very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.

My moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it’s unbelievable!

If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don’t be discouraged… just be willing to change.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

My future is righteousness.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

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.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

For me, education was power.

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

Steve Jobs‘ ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.

Never complain and never explain.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people’s kids than I did my own.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

I’m never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

Get mad, then get over it.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

Writing is challenging work because it’s so easy to get consumed with how it’s going, what’s going to happen to it, who’s going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

Only the insecure strive for security.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

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

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

If you’re living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

If there are people you haven’t forgiven, you’re not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

I’ve taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them.

Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.

Always do whatever’s next.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.