You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

A lot of artists fail when they try to act, and they flop. So when I get into acting, it’s going to be to do it well, something good, something of quality. I want people to say, ‚Wow, that movie‘ – or that show or whatever – ‚turned out really well.‘

Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

Don’t worry about motivation. Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes. It is unreliable – and when you are counting on motivation to get your goals accomplished, you will likely fall short.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

I’m inconsistent, even to myself.

My name is Adam Sandler. I’m not particularly talented. I’m not particularly good-looking. And yet I’m a multi-millionaire.

At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

Luck is believing you’re lucky.

Well, I don’t think there’s any need for people to focus on my career.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

In my career as a director, there’s always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go: ‚What is this thing all about, and why am I telling the story? Does anybody really care about seeing this?‘ At that time you have to say: ‚OK, forget that and just go ahead.‘

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

Many shoulder heavy burdens of righteous responsibility which, on occasion, seem so difficult to bear. I have heard those challenges termed impossible.

It’s not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do – everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

It didn’t even occur to me that I’m the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

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

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

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

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

I don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me because it’s not their profession to do that.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.