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

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

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

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

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

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‚I used everything you gave me‘.

I’m interested in the dream and subconscious mind, the peculiar dream-like quality of our lives, sometime nightmare quality of our lives.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

Bitterness is cancer – it eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure.

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.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

I’d rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

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

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

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.

If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.

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

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

You make yourself broad. You make yourself appealing. ‚Hey, y’all, I’m cool with everybody.‘ That’s my message.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

I think that success is having fun.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

It’s easy to forget who you are.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

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

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

If you’re living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do 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.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.