If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.

True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Character is power.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

I think that at the start of a game, you’re always playing to win, and then maybe if you’re ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

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

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

‚Your Erroneous Zones’ was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

I want to represent… to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try.

I just get annoyed at myself. A lot of swearing goes on generally when I am driving.

I think everybody has something that they’ve been obsessed about in their lifetime.

Remember: your bosses prefer to keep you in dependent positions. It is in their interest that you do not become self-reliant, and so they will tend to hoard information. You must secretly work against this and seize this information for yourself.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.

I explain the law of compensation like this: ‚Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.

You either make dust or eat dust.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.

I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

I look at myself like a show dog. I’ve got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I’m going to grow artistically.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

You have to be someone.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

My future is righteousness.

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

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.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

God always wants us to be growing.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

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

I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don’t live angry, let go now!

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

I’m really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.