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

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

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

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

It’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

A fit body gives you confidence. And there’s nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you’ll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.

My moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

Some people, they take their form of working out as a religion that they think is better than everyone else’s. I’m not like that. If you have a better way to work out, and you can teach it to me, and I find it to be useful and gets me in better shape, I’m all about.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

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

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

I’ve read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home, I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I’ve read because he is, like, a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I’m not a big reader.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

A word after a word after a word is power.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

I’m honored that everybody’s inspired off my inspiration.

Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

Common Core is a big win for education.

The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.