Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

Even though I had won in other categories, I didn’t have any expectations when I came into F1. Qualifying fifth, finishing sixth? I didn’t expect it.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

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.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light.

Choose people who lift you up.

It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we’ve made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

You fail only if you stop writing.

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

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

A man’s character is his fate.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

Don’t give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you.

I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally – but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Single life is so overrated.

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

The great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.

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

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.

I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

One thing I’ve tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

A fit body gives you confidence. And there’s nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you’ll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.

No great thing is created suddenly.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Change in all things is sweet.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

I’m pretty positive, optimistic, so I always expect the best.

Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.