Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

I want people to draw strength from me.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren’t worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

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

We’ve been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can’t do – about what is impossible.

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

I wasn’t that great a chef, and I don’t think I’m that great a writer.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

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

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

It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

Libraries raised me.

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.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

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.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

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

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

The doer alone learneth.

I’m going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

I think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

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

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.