When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.

I’ve done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price – which has been the case most of the time.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

I used to get into a lot of fights.

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

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

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you – but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

Never take anything for granted.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

I don’t focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing, then I don’t worry about it.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

I don’t have to be what you want me to be.

The trained mind is a rich mind.

Really, you don’t lose until you stop trying.

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

It’s much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.