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.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

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.

I’ve always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we’re young, we don’t understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it’s a blessing to have that support at home.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

I’m one of them guys that tries to make everything the best of the best, so sometimes I’m out of control with it.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

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

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

You can’t go backward in life.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

That’s the biggest gift I can give anybody: ‚Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you’re doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.‘

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.

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

I remember they used to tell me, they said, ‚Khaled, you can’t get a Rolls-Royce; you need to get one of them small ones.‘ So I went and bought a Phantom.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

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

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

If you deserve it, go get it.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.