I couldn’t say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set in stone.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they’re real for you whether they’re real or not.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

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

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense… I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

The question is not, ‚Do you have a problem?‘ The question is, ‚Does the problem have you?‘

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

I didn’t tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I thought if I told people, it wouldn’t happen. So I kept it all in my head for years and years.

All of our problems start in our minds.

My dad used to have an expression – ‚It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.‘

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

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

I’m a genetic optimist.

I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

America is another name for opportunity.

I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

I actually don’t want a throne at all, because I don’t view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

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

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn’t have that kind of personality, and it’s a terrifying thing to say.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

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

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

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

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

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

I don’t worry about stress. I create it.

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

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.