Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

You’ll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

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

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

I know that I came into the world with what I call ‚big dharma‘ – with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.

I’m not a natural born performer.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

I didn’t know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

I’ve always strived to be successful, not famous.

I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a sentence. I had anxiety attacks. Partly it was a way of personifying the situation because I couldn’t breathe. I was surrounded by people and by duties. I was a housewife and the children’s mother, and I was judged on how I performed those roles.

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

I’ve read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home, I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I’ve read because he is, like, a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I’m not a big reader.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

I never say I am a guru.

I won’t be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn’t mean I want them to stop looking.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

The only shame is to have none.

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

Never find fault with the absent.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

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

Clothing & fashion are kind of my security blanket, almost.

My whole thing now is I know how to think properly to be successful in all aspects of my life. It’s not about ultra running or being a SEAL or pull-up records: it’s about if you want to be better you, have to change your perceived limitations and take the barriers down.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to be in combat.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

I like to feel blonde all over.

You learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

I’m not a star. I don’t feel I’m so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you’ve got my signature on a piece of paper?

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

To create something you must be something.

I’m not very articulate.

An unclean person is universally a slothful one.

I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.

I’ve never been an intellectual but I have this look.

I’m not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.