Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

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

A great man is always willing to be little.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

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

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

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Men must know their limitations.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

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

I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

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

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I’ve had a lot of experience with that.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people’s children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

I was never particularly fond of my voice.

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

If you have to stand and fight, you train yourself so that you’re able to do it.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.

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

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

I know I’m stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

Life is a lively process of becoming.

No one but a fool is always right.