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

You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, ‚I release the need for this in my life‘.

And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you’re going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them and even if you don’t agree with them.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

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.

If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

It is easier to be critical than correct.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

I have made the mistaken assumption – and I will attempt to be better at this – of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season. And that is my mistake.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you’re changing, emotionally as well as physically?

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

Development of outlook naturally begins with a respect for God… Reverence to God and reverence for one’s neighbor and reverence for oneself as a servant of God.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

My whole thing now is I know how to think properly to be successful in all aspects of my life. It’s not about ultra running or being a SEAL or pull-up records: it’s about if you want to be better you, have to change your perceived limitations and take the barriers down.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ’s name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all – not in any way.

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let’s face it – we all would like to be happy.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.