I never go into a situation with any type of expectations.

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don’t care attitude about clothes. You don’t care, you just do it and it looks great.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

I always wished for this, but it’s almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

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

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

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

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

As you think, so shall you become.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

We are what we believe we are.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.

I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I’ve – if it did occur – that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

Inside of every problem lies an opportunity.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I was just right, so I believe that my brain is a good one, and it’s lasting me very well.

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.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

Our intention creates our reality.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

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

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

To Sun-tzu and the ancient Chinese, doing something extraordinary had little effect without a setup of something ordinary. You had to mix the two – to fix your opponent’s expectations with some banal, ordinary maneuver, a comfortable pattern that they would then expect you to follow.

Man is not made for defeat.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. 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.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

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

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

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.