A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

I don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

There’s a reason that I have confidence out there, and it’s about how I prepare for games and for series and seasons and whatnot, so we’ve got to stick with that kind of thought process.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

I believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.

The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

I will never retire unless I have to.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.

It’s important for me to let my fans know I really don’t care. I’m confident.

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

Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations – if you become aligned with it, something good will emerge from that.

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.

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

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it’s been tested by recession and all manner of challenges – I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.