Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

My biggest skill is common sense. I understand life.

The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

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

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.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

I do not abuse players. I talk to myself; I abuse myself. It’s my way of letting off steam. I do it after every century; I do not do it always. I keep telling myself: ‚Improve, improve from the previous match, the previous shot. You can do it.‘

All cruelty springs from weakness.

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

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

I try to live what I teach. A lot of things come against us in life, but we should try to find something to be grateful for, and see each day as a gift.

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.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.

I want people to draw strength from me.

I couldn’t say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set in stone.

Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time… I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.

I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Pricey oil makes clear that wealth really is energy in various forms.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

It is natural to want to have a future.

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

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

Being humble matters.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

There’s a reason that I have confidence out there, and it’s about how I prepare for games and for series and seasons and whatnot, so we’ve got to stick with that kind of thought process.

I think I’ve got wiser.

I’m concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I’m aiming for, which is not such a good thing.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

I criticize by creation – not by finding fault.

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‚Run like hell and all of fire.‘ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

Growing up I didn’t watch movies.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.