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

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.

I don’t think about that. I wasn’t a kid growing up saying one day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn’t on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

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

I thought I couldn’t make a difference because I was too small.

People want to feel hopeful.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

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.

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

I didn’t know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

Everybody wants to be me. What can I say?

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

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

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: ‚Oh, that’s just the way things are done around here.‘ Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

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

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

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

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

I don’t see myself as ever being like anybody else.

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

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

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