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

I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don’t doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

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.

You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

I knew that I was ‚interesting‘ at 18 because I was aware that I could get away with doing things on stage.

I like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

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.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Never confuse motion with action.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Begin with the end in mind.

One must steer, not talk.

My fat never made me less money.

I have a deep, deep belief that if I tell you I’m going to crack you with a clean shot to the chin inside one minute of the first round and you will be unconscious, well, then that’s what will happen.

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

The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.

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.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

‚Your Erroneous Zones’ was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

I’m not comparing myself with anyone, but I am very confident about my captaincy, as I have already led India and in the IPL also. I have confidence I can bring out each player’s ability fully and also give them a lot of confidence… I would like to stick to what I know best and what I have confidence in.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.

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

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

Mastery, I learned, was not something genetic, or for a lucky few. It is something we can all attain if get rid of some misconceptions and gain clarity as to the required path.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

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

Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That’s the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

God didn’t make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That’s what I’ve done.

I’m never nervous.