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.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

There are no second acts in American lives.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go… if it’s not a part of your God-given destiny.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

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

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

The more you know the less you need to say.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Remember: your bosses prefer to keep you in dependent positions. It is in their interest that you do not become self-reliant, and so they will tend to hoard information. You must secretly work against this and seize this information for yourself.

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.

An elusive, enigmatic aura will make people want to know more, drawing them into your circle. Create such a power by hinting at something contradictory within you.

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.

If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.

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

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

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.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.

Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

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

As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.