I’ve never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.

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

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

I don’t want to say anything negative about anybody or anything or anybody’s political beliefs. I’ve never done that. I’ve never tried to get involved in those things.

I’ve always strived to be successful, not famous.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it can’t have.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

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

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

I couldn’t say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set in stone.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

I do believe in self-help.

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

What we think, we become.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.

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

The sun doesn’t always shine in West Virginia, but the people do.

To create something you must be something.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

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

Become aware of your own insufficiency.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

We work to become, not to acquire.

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.

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

It is easier to be critical than correct.

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.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

We’ve been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can’t do – about what is impossible.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

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

I’m confident with my ability.