I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, ‚Boy, those were great old days.‘ Well, you know, we’re living in the good old days.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

You can be happy where you are.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

If you or I fail at business, we fail. If we cheat and fail, we go to jail. But if you’re rich and politically connected, your incompetence may be protected by a government bailout.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.

I don’t go down the road of condemning.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

My doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe.

You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

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

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn’t know it then.

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones – with ingratitude.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

All of our problems start in our minds.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don’t care who people are as long as they’re themselves, whatever that is.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there’s purpose and worth to each and every life.

If you give, you will be blessed.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

For whatever trauma came with service in tough circumstances, we should take what we learned – take our post-traumatic growth – and, like past generations coming home, bring our sharpened strengths to bear, bring our attitude of gratitude to bear.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12 year old. So I got to live an actual life. And I’ve kept that mentality. Just because there’s a hurricane going on around you doesn’t mean you have to open the window and look at it.

There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?