We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!

Luck is believing you’re lucky.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

I still think I am the greatest.

I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse. So for me, it’s a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

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.‘

When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I’ll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

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

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

Man is not made for defeat.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

Well, you know, I’m the forever optimist.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

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

There are times when you throw an interception and you’re beating yourself up.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

If there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

I came up from a difficult background.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

Marines don’t know how to spell the word ‚defeat‘.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

If you’re in a workplace you don’t like right now, be encouraged because God will use it for your good. Think about it this way: He wants you to be a light in the darkness – and He’s putting His confidence in you!

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

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

I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that’s not in me. I want to lift people up.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I was just right, so I believe that my brain is a good one, and it’s lasting me very well.