If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Every summer’s mine.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Happy the people whose annals are vacant.

My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I’m willing and I’m eager, and not just about my writing – I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.

I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

I know I’m stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

I pity the fool who just gives up.

I have wasted my hours.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethically, any other behaviour wouldn’t be admissible.

A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

What I love best in life is new starts.

I am not afraid of saying something and going and pursuing it. That’s it. I see it in my mind. I say it out loud. I go and do it.

Losing is tough.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

I’m not very articulate.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

Don’t work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

Compliment three people every day.

I think that success is having fun.

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

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.