Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all – not in any way.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

I love getting out of my comfort zone.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

God’s desire is that we excel.

For me, I don’t want to cheat the game by saying, or kind of doing lip service by saying, I want to be the greatest ever. I want to be able to show it.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

No sooner said than done – so acts your man of worth.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

Initiative is doing the right things without being told.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

The book, ’12 Rules For Life,‘ is a very serious book. There’s elements of humor in it, but I’m trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it’s necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there’s hell to pay if you don’t do that.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.

Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

Better is the enemy of good.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

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

I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

I like pushing boundaries.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

I’m always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.

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

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

There’s a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.