If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they’re real for you whether they’re real or not.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side… It has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

Things do not change; we change.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

People that’s in power – the central banks, these fiat currencies that are traded globally – they got influence over the messaging and the narrative in the media.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

My secret to staying young… Having no sense of time.

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

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn’t identify with the person on the screen. I couldn’t get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

There’s a silly notion that failure’s not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

I didn’t like the way I looked in pictures – when I saw myself on a digital camera, I was like, ‚Eesh.‘

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

I never admire another’s fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.

Whatever role I play is a positive role; it’s a strong role. Never negative.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

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

People want to feel hopeful.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

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.

When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.