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.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

I do believe in self-help.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

You either make dust or eat dust.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

I’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It’s enough. I’m enough. My kids are enough.

I don’t want to be an action star, an action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

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

To create something you must be something.

Off with you! You’re a happy fellow, for you’ll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

I am just one human being.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

Nothing on ‚Relapse‘ and very little on ‚Recovery‘ was produced by me.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

I’m not a regrets-type person.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.