I focus on my own job.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

My biggest skill is common sense. I understand life.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

An elusive, enigmatic aura will make people want to know more, drawing them into your circle. Create such a power by hinting at something contradictory within you.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

I’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

You can live within the institutions and work hard to change them.

The question is not, ‚Do you have a problem?‘ The question is, ‚Does the problem have you?‘

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

No driver is perfect.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

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

I’m all about evolution. I’m the first person to judge myself.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

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.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

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

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and can’t do to describe something like war or history. I’m not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

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

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

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.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

You can’t go backward in life.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.