“Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement.”

“Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.”

“The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It is the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows. Missing once is an accident. Missing twice is the start of a new habit.”

“The work that hurts you less than it hurts others is the work you were made to do.”

“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity. This is one reason why meaningful change does not require radical change. Small habits can make a meaningful difference by providing evidence of a new identity. And if a change is meaningful, it is actually big. That's the paradox of making small improvements.”

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

“To add value to others, one must first value others.”

“Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.”

“Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.”

“Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.”

“Well, how can you play in Mandarin movies if you don't even speak Mandarin? How do you do that?”

“You know what I want to think of myself? As a human being. Because, I don't want to sound like Confucius, but under the sky, under the heaven, man, there is but one family. It just so happens, man, that people are different.”

“Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

“Never let the fear of striking out stop you from playing the game.”

“The road to success is always under construction.”

“A child miseducated is a child lost.”

“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”

“The man who does not read books has no advantage over the one who cannot read them.”

“There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.”

“In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.”

“No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.”

“I don't always get shot during the middle of a speech — but when I do, I finish the damn speech.”

“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”

“The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.”

“Nothing worth having comes easy.”

“Don’t stop when you’re tired. Stop when you’re done.”

“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”

“I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It's because of them I’m doing it myself.”

“Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.”

“Choose not to be harmed, and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed, and you haven’t been.”

“The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.”

“Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.”

“Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.”

“If it is not right, do not do it. If it is not true, do not say it.”

“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”

“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive, to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”

“It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.”

“Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.”

“Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.”

“A man of bad character punishes his own soul.”

“Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.”

“The hypocrite looks for faults. The believer looks for excuses.”

“Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.”

“You possess only whatever will not be lost in a shipwreck.”

“To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.”

“What you seek is seeking you.”

“My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get an idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements, and operate the device entirely in my mind.”