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

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

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?

We should not underestimate ourselves, because if lots of individuals go together then we can accomplish almost anything.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

I like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act.

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

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

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

Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‚Run like hell and all of fire.‘ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.

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

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

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

I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I’ve – if it did occur – that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

At the core, one of my original goals is to redefine what the streets expect.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

You have to just accept your body. You may not love it all the way, but you just have to be comfortable with it, comfortable with knowing that that’s your body.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.

I never go into a situation with any type of expectations.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.

I don’t focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing, then I don’t worry about it.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

The die is cast.

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

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

When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, ‚Sexiest Man Alive,‘ I’m honestly going, ‚Thank you. Right on.‘ For me, it’s never canceled out anything, it’s never made me go, ‚Does this make me less talented of an actor?‘

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

It’s the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

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.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know. There’s no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way – I hope it never will.