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

There is moderation even in excess.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Any hand that I’ve shaken, any person that I met when I was Joe Blow, now that I’m this guy Kevin Hart, has come back. That’s why I treat everybody with respect. I’m always a nice pleasant guy to meet because when they come back to you, they remember.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

No driver is perfect.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

I’m not going to fight because I mean too much to our team, and I can’t afford to be suspended for a game or do something stupid to get me kicked out of a playoff game.

I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Well, I wouldn’t say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

Learning to live for others isn’t something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

I want to rethink ‚surrender‘ as an active verb.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Life well spent is long.

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

There are no second acts in American lives.

You can’t go backward in life.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

I don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

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.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I’ll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I’m gonna tell ya, that’s one helluva man, and God bless him.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

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

I criticize by creation – not by finding fault.