‚Your Erroneous Zones’ was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

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

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

I don’t think I am evangelical in my work.

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

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.‘

If you hear a voice within you say ‚you cannot paint,‘ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

Beto’s copy of the Bill of Rights goes from one to three. Mine includes the Second Amendment. But there are a whole host of people here in Washington… they would be happy to confiscate America’s guns. And if you don’t believe that, then you probably also still believe in Bigfoot.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

You fail only if you stop writing.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

People want to feel hopeful.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

Applause waits on success.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

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.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

I have retired, but if there’s anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‚darkness‘ on the walls of his cell.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

And if a person is religious, I think it’s good, it helps you a bit. But if you’re not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

‚Worry‘ is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.

I was of the generation where most of the Disney princesses and female characters were not girls that I admired. They just weren’t characters I looked up to and identified with.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.