Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

I come from a very rough background, and I'm saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it, too.

You've got to put in the work. And you've got to play with confidence. You've got to believe in yourself.

It's not that hard to be good, you can be good off raw talent. But I feel like it's that extra step, doing work and putting a body of work in and doing things when nobody else is watching. When nobody else is telling you to do it, you're pushing yourself to do it.

If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.

Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you're a janitor or taking your first summer job, because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life.

Take your work seriously, but never yourself.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

As you mature and gain a semblance of wisdom and a sense of what life is all about... this is by no means true of everyone, but a lot of actors like to escape themselves. Inhabiting another person's persona is often a good way of escaping yourself.

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it's not such a bad thing.

A cardinal rule in budgeting and saving is to pay yourself first. Once your paycheck hits your account, wisdom has it that you should move some amount to savings even before you pay the bills.

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

We actively encourage teenagers not to have babies, we applaud young career women in their twenties, then before you know it you find yourself, as I did, aged 32 at a friend's wedding and being quizzed by everyone about why you haven't got round to reproducing yet.