Some people feel that the world owes them a living.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form.

I don’t believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility.

Never complain. Never explain.

I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.

I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president – with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln – just in terms of what we’ve gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we’ve got a lot more work to do. And we’re gonna keep on at it.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people’s minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

It’s not ‚can‘; it’s ‚will.‘ You have to will things into fruition.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

We are what we believe we are.

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

I don’t want followers.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know. There’s no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

People want to feel hopeful.

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don’t wish to have as their reality.

I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don’t believe in the whole thing of just using other people’s money. I don’t think that’s right. I’m not going to ask other people to invest in something if I’m not prepared to do so myself.

It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

We learned about dignity and decency – that how hard you work matters more than how much you make… that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

I’d rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

I’m of the school of thought where, if you can’t sort something out for yourself, no one can help you. Rehab is great for some people but not others.