What you put into life is what you get out of it.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

I don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

Money can’t buy life.

I have made the mistaken assumption – and I will attempt to be better at this – of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season. And that is my mistake.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

Never confuse motion with action.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.

Little by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.

I don’t follow all the 48 laws. Like, I’ve never crushed anyone totally.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

‚Worry‘ is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‚What’s in it for me?‘

I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a sentence. I had anxiety attacks. Partly it was a way of personifying the situation because I couldn’t breathe. I was surrounded by people and by duties. I was a housewife and the children’s mother, and I was judged on how I performed those roles.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they’re real for you whether they’re real or not.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

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.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

Competition is a sin.

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

If you sit there and have that mentality of ‚triple down on what you’re good at,‘ you’re never going to grow. You’re always going to stay the same.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can’t be all that bad.

I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I’ve – if it did occur – that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.