Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

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.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

Don’t ever play yourself.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

When there’s so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you’ve already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

I’ve never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

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.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

As president, you can get all kinds of advice from all kinds of people. But at the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values and your vision and the life experiences that make you who you are.

Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

I’m not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

I don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

I don’t know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

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.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

Nothing will work unless you do.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.

You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

I’m not very articulate.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

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.