Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don’t know and I don’t care.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

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

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: ‚Oh, that’s just the way things are done around here.‘ Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

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

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.

I’ve learned never to say never.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. I also believe in laughing and having a good time.

It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

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

What we think, we become.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

I’m not a regrets-type person.

People who think too much before they act don’t act too much.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

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.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.