Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

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.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

The self is hateful.

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

Sometimes, wearing a scarf and a polo coat and no makeup and with a certain attitude of walking, I go shopping or just look at people living. But then, you know, there will be a few teenagers who are kind of sharp, and they’ll say, ‚Hey, just a minute. You know who I think that is?‘ And they’ll start tailing me. And I don’t mind.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtues consistently.

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

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Does anybody really think that they didn’t get what they had because they didn’t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

The only shame is to have none.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

Happy the people whose annals are vacant.

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

The battle is all over except the ‚shouting‘ when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

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

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

I can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

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.

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

It’s not ‚can‘; it’s ‚will.‘ You have to will things into fruition.

Observe all men, thyself most.

Life must be lived as play.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethically, any other behaviour wouldn’t be admissible.

Be a player; don’t play yourself. And don’t play basketball. That’s not your sport, Jeb Bush.