We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

I would never exchange my life with anybody else’s.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness.

Nothing will work unless you do.

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.

Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap – it is all in the mind.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man’s, I mean.

I don’t want to say anything negative about anybody or anything or anybody’s political beliefs. I’ve never done that. I’ve never tried to get involved in those things.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.

How sweet it is to learn the Savior’s love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a blessed thing it is to see that the Savior does not forsake us but still keeps us and holds us fast and clings to us and will not let us go!

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

You can be happy where you are.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

Glory be and praise to God. I didn’t do any of this. God did. I don’t have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

We all want to win more, but it’s all about being blessed and embracing your blessings. We have life.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.