It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret… if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active.

What’s right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity – intellect and resources – to do some thing about them.

Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.

Yeah, it’s pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

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.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

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

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

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

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

I still think I am the greatest.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

There are a lot of inaccuracies out there when it comes to the SEAL training process. You will see guys carrying logs around on television. They think that the hardest part about being on a SEAL team is getting through that training. The fact of the matter is, if you have a good attitude, that training is fun. I had a blast.

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

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

Never complain. Never explain.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

There’s no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.

Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!

I believe that one person can make a difference.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

For me, bomber jackets are smart, but they are also street and have a lot of attitude.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said – and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded – ‚It’s like hair color. It’s nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It’s not a subject.‘ This was a very healthy attitude.

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

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

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

There is a need for financial reform along ethical lines that would produce in its turn an economic reform to benefit everyone. This would nevertheless require a courageous change of attitude on the part of political leaders.

People in tough times – it doesn’t mean they don’t have a great attitude.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.