Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

I criticize by creation – not by finding fault.

It’s easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it’s easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have… we always want more.

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

The risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

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

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

Jiu Jitsu is probably the No. 1 activity that I could recommend to someone to improve their lives overall.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

I’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

I’m mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it’s the only place where I’m happy.

The older you get, the better you get.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

It isn’t necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

People have this capacity within them to set the world straight.

I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.