Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

There is one thing that gets you out of bed in the morning, and that is discipline. Because your dreams and your goals are not there waking up for you in the morning.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

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.

You can never get enough of what you don’t want.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

In retrospect, I can see I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Learn to say ‚no‘ to the good so you can say ‚yes‘ to the best.

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, ‚He is not a lush.‘ That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, ‚Look!‘

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

I am sure there’s going to be times when I do things wrong that no one’s going to like and everyone’s going to think I’m terrible and rubbish but I know I’m going to go through those times, and it’s just about understanding that that’s going to happen.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

No driver is perfect.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I’d get on stage and be able to break out of my shell.

When it comes to everybody else’s thing and their lane and their timing, I’m never doing anything intentional to, like, come after somebody. That will always be my biggest mistake or anybody’s biggest mistake if that’s their intention.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

I don’t want followers.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

You fail only if you stop writing.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.