If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

He who is contented is rich.

What keeps me going is goals.

You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

Let us read and let us dance – two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that’s my religion.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

I don’t think I’m an unlucky person.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

There’s room for role models who make mistakes.

I’m not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

There’s a scripture that says, ‚A merry heart doeth good like medicine.‘ I think that’s true, too.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

Enemies are so stimulating.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

The future will be better tomorrow.

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

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

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

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

I’m not this horrible, evil person.

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.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it can’t have.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

The self is hateful.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

A man’s character is his fate.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

We’ve been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can’t do – about what is impossible.

The more you know the less you need to say.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

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

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.