Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

I’m not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I’m doing. So if I’m playing basketball, if I’m taking the SATs, like, there’s a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it’s the same thing.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

Love is trembling happiness.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

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.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

What is true belongs to me!

I can’t do nothing just a little.

I don’t like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.

We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don’t forget it.

Most people would assume my business success, and the wealth that comes with it, have brought me happiness. But I know I am successful, wealthy, and connected because I am happy.

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don’t have to be rich. You don’t have to be a genius. You don’t have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

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.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‚That can be me.‘ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

This guy Clubber Lang, I’ve been him all my life. He’s mean and hungry just like me.

The world itself is the will to power – and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power – and nothing else!

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

If you’re not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you’re going to be punished for them, then what’s your motivation to continue?

I explain the law of compensation like this: ‚Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.