Choose people who lift you up.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

My old drama coach used to say, ‚Don’t just do something, stand there.‘ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

I hate to be smart.

Your Highest Self only wants you to be at peace. It does not judge, compare, or demand that you defeat anyone or be better than anyone.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

Money does not change people, people change.

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

One of the best mental disciplines for people to implement is simply putting together a schedule or a task list and actually executing it. Write the list or the schedule the night before, and then do what you said you would do. Life becomes much better when you do that.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.

We’re all insecure, aren’t we? I’m not walking around like I’m macho man or anything.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

I never fall in love.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

I’m of the school of thought where if you can’t sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

If we’re going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

I’m over being a pop star. I don’t wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I’ve accomplished a lot. I feel like I’m highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

In my career as a director, there’s always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go: ‚What is this thing all about, and why am I telling the story? Does anybody really care about seeing this?‘ At that time you have to say: ‚OK, forget that and just go ahead.‘

I think I’ve developed, as many people do, this sense of, ‚Don’t say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.‘

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

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

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

Never mistake motion for action.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

It’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.