Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

If you truly love life, don’t waste time because time is what life is made of.

The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

Don’t fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strangle confidence.

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

In the middle of chaos lies opportunity.

I wish neither to possess nor to be possessed. I no longer covet ‘paradise’. More important, I no longer fear ‘hell’.

For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Mistakes are always forgivable if one has the courage to admit them.

As you think, so shall you become.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.

There is “what is” only when there is no comparing and to live with “what is” is to be peaceful.