We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

We are what we believe we are.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‚Run like hell and all of fire.‘ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

You can’t think; you just gotta do things.

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

To make headway, improve your head.

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

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

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.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

An honest man is always a child.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

I don’t have a problem with ageing – in fact, I embrace that aspect of it. And am able to and obviously am going to be able to quite easily… it doesn’t faze me at all.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

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.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

One thing I’ve tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

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

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

It’s important for me to let my fans know I really don’t care. I’m confident.

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

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

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

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Our intention creates our reality.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

I thought one should have the attitude of ‚What do you care what other people think!‘

When you’re around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don’t have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.