It’s easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it’s easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He’s done… is doing… and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don’t let yourself ever get used to it… stay amazed!

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry – writing at writing.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.

If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.

I’m not afraid to make mistakes.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ‚Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.‘

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.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

An unclean person is universally a slothful one.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

I’ve always been really, really aware of my insecurities – really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.

The Revlon Run/Walk effort to focus on women’s cancer has my wholehearted support and gratitude.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

A fit body gives you confidence. And there’s nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you’ll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

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.

I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.

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

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

I’ve read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home, I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I’ve read because he is, like, a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I’m not a big reader.

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

‚Thank you‘ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

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.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all – not in any way.

My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.

The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It’s amazing. A great honor.

Only you can control your future.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

O God, we praise Thee for keeping us till this day, and for the full assurance that Thou wilt never let us go.

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

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