Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it’s a shield.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

I’ve never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

Little by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.

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.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

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

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

I’m not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

Life must be lived as play.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

I believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.

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

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Honestly, I always believed in myself. For real, for real.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

I used to get into a lot of fights.

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.

I was never particularly fond of my voice.

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

The question is not, ‚Do you have a problem?‘ The question is, ‚Does the problem have you?‘

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

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