Whatever you do for the sole purpose of having others admire you, your efforts will most likely be in vain.

To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.

Ask yourself: was there anything I could have done to prevent the situation? If the answer is yes, do something now and become a better person for it.

If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in there cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment.

The thing is, at the end of the day you still have to face yourself.

Whatever you do for the sole purpose of having others admire you, your efforts will most likely be in vain.

When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process.

'A Child Called It' was a story about resilience, it was never about boo hoo hoo, it was about a kid that didn't quit.

Even when I lecture per se, I am a joke comedian, I can do the voices.

Everybody makes mistakes.

I am a very shy, introverted guy.

I am not the most eloquent guy in the world.

I buy thousands of books a year.

I had an attachment disorder.

I know I can be very standoffish.

I learned from Arnold Schwarzenegger, too, that it's O.K. to be pluggish.

I plan my life in 15-minute sections.

I really believe I'm no different from anyone else. I just had a few challenges I had to learn from at a very early age.

I work 338 days a year, 16 hours a day.

I'm always looking for a story of survival.

If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in their cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment.

My fans are buying the DNA of Dave.

My message has always been about resilience.

My mom obviously had a problem.

Something good comes out of every crisis.

There's a lot of Dave mania when I speak.

What distresses me at times is that I meet a lot of people in their 40's, 50's, 60's, who still say they're a victim of child abuse.

You kick a dog long enough, that dog is going to bite you or die.

Build on past successes be grateful for what you do have and know that this too shall pass. Its only for the now. Whatever were facing its not forever.

To help yourself you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake learn from it pick yourself up and move on.

Childhood should be carefree playing in the sun not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.

You can be a victim of cancer or a survivor of cancer. Its a mindset.

Even in its darkest passages, the heart is unconquerable. It is important that the body survives, but it is more meaningful that the human spirit prevails.

The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions.

I was always told I was special. And I was also assured that I had a gift and a purpose.

Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.

If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers.

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.

My purpose... to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy, healthy and holy.

So that is how I ended up with those two titles, I like Accidentally on Purpose better - it is how we work in our trade - is it really an accident, or is there a thread of destiny in there? That was the intention, I am not sure I found out.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Our purpose, as we face these challenges, remains clear - fair and orderly markets that allow for efficient capital formation, while protecting the interests of investors.

A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation.

I think the studio gave me that series on purpose, because they knew perfectly well that Robert Riskin was ill and that I needed to go to work. They gave me that series to do.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

So Ham's wife that was preserved on the Ark was a Negro of the seed of Cain and there was a priestly purpose in it, that the Devil would have a representation as well as God.

Our lives are programmed at conception and are endowed with purpose and meaning.