Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

I have goals.

I’m about being the best.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it’s applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you’re dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

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.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don’t forget it.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

I am results-oriented.

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.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

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.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

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.

I’m pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people’s bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

The authority you establish must emerge naturally from your character, from the particular strengths you possess.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people’s children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

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

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

Thought is the parent of the deed.