You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

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.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

A man’s character is his fate.

As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, ‚I don’t want to become like Bruce Lee’s son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.‘ I just think my son is too lazy.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

There’s an inherent danger in letting people think that they have perfected something. When they believe they’ve ‚nailed it,‘ most people tend to sit back and rest on their laurels while countless others will be labouring furiously to better their work!

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

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

In two decades I’ve lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Don’t give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

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

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

All great achievements require time.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

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.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

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.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Act, and God will act.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

At the core, one of my original goals is to redefine what the streets expect.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

The trained mind is a rich mind.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

I explain the law of compensation like this: ‚Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.

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

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.