If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

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

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

I like to have fun all the time, even if I’m working.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

Thought is powerful in all phases. Even in my career, even in my life, things end up exactly how I visualized them.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Be not simply good – be good for something.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

If you’re not very clever you should be conciliatory.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

I’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

I’m not going to change the world. You’re not going to change the world. But we can help – we can all help.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

I’m not a natural born performer.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

I’ve read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home, I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I’ve read because he is, like, a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I’m not a big reader.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

The most important 6 inches on the battlefield is between your ears.

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

You’ll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

When doubt comes against us, we have to lift up the shield of faith. We do this when we open our mouth and say what God’s Word says, rather than grumbling and complaining about the problem.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

I know love is the answer.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.