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

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

I always was a Christian… whatsoever a man thinks in his heart is who he is.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

I still think I am the greatest.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

I wasn’t sure of the exact mindset you should have when you go into a Test match. So I probably became too defensive when I played my first Test match. Short balls in one-day cricket, I have never thought of just defending.

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people’s minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Most of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.

People who think too much before they act don’t act too much.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

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

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one.

I feel like whatever you’ve done in your career, good or bad, it’s nothing but preparation for the big events to come.

I always entertain great hopes.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

My moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

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

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

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.

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.