A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

My view is there’s no bad time to innovate.

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.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

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’m a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.

I believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.

I have always thought I was the best ever player.

I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

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

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

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

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay ‚forever young at heart.‘

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

I believe that Jesus was, you know, the Son of God. And I understand that… we need to be really, really respectful to people who find that ridiculous and… preposterous.

Stop this attitude that older people ain’t any good anymore! We’re as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good.

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

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.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

You’re going to go through tough times – that’s life. But I say, ‚Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.‘ See the positive in negative events.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

If you ever see The Rock working out in the gym, don’t think you can just go up and disturb his workout and expect him to take a picture. He’s there to work, so kindly just pass the silverback on by or he’ll rip your face off.

The mere thought hadn’t even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

The battle is all over except the ‚shouting‘ when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you’re above everybody else.

People who pity themselves think, ‚Why would I try to do anything? I’ll just fail.‘

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

As you think, so shall you become.

You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.

I don’t think about that. I wasn’t a kid growing up saying one day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn’t on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.