As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

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.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

In this great country, we celebrate success. We don’t want to penalize those who have done well.

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

You can’t go backward in life.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

I think we need more idiot control.

Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.

I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

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

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

If I waited for perfection… I would never write a word.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

Only you can control your future.

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I’m working on the foundation.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

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.

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

Anytime someone tells me that I can’t do something, I want to do it more.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

What we think, we become.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

Sometimes I’m a bit under-aggressive and sometimes a bit over. But I think it’s good to have both.

Passions are the gales of life.

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

I’ve always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we’re young, we don’t understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it’s a blessing to have that support at home.

Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.