Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.

God helps those who help themselves.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

Mastery, I learned, was not something genetic, or for a lucky few. It is something we can all attain if get rid of some misconceptions and gain clarity as to the required path.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.

I shook up the world, I shook up the world.

Men must know their limitations.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don’t know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren’t worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

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

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

If you ask people what they’ve always wanted to do, most people haven’t done it. That breaks my heart.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It’s a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That’s why I need to throw curve balls.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‚Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.‘

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

In my entire life, any time I’ve ever lost something, I’ve gotten something even better going around the next corner. It’s like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they’re going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I’ll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

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.

I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

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

To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

I always have to be writing.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Of course, I do everything for money.

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

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.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

I’m so tough and so bad, I can be humble and lift another guy up.

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