Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

The only shame is to have none.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

I never say I am a guru.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

I give opinions, not advice.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Think and grow rich.

Everyone wants to know and hopes I retire so they can get the jobs. But my contracts with Fendi and Chanel are lifelong.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

‚Your Erroneous Zones’ was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

Don’t ever play yourself.

Better is the enemy of good.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that’s associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

Self-respect knows no considerations.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself – let’s put it that way.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

I’ve learned through my own relationship with God that He’s not expecting me to be perfect; He wants me to do my best to be in His will and take steps of faith as He leads me, through His Word and the promptings He speaks to my heart.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all – not in any way.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

I knew I wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist – let’s not be fools – but I wasn’t going to be a bum.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

You’re not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

Power is competence.

I’m touring the world, not doing nothing against the law, getting money to feed my family. I got employees that have felonies, and they can’t get jobs. They work for me.

On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?

Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don’t wish to have as their reality.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

If we’re going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

Reactive people… are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That’s what I’ve done.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people’s actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, ‚I release the need for this in my life‘.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

Tourism provides employment to the poorest of the poor. Gram seller earns something, auto-rickshaw driver earns something, pakoda seller earns something, and tea seller also earns something.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

I do believe in self-help.