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

Confidence is always a good thing to have going into the weekend. Especially where it’s quite difficult to put the lap together.

Mastery, I learned, was not something genetic, or for a lucky few. It is something we can all attain if get rid of some misconceptions and gain clarity as to the required path.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

The thing I always say to people is this: ‚If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.‘

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

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

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I’m working on the foundation.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12 year old. So I got to live an actual life. And I’ve kept that mentality. Just because there’s a hurricane going on around you doesn’t mean you have to open the window and look at it.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

Belief creates the actual fact.

I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a sentence. I had anxiety attacks. Partly it was a way of personifying the situation because I couldn’t breathe. I was surrounded by people and by duties. I was a housewife and the children’s mother, and I was judged on how I performed those roles.

Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that’s you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don’t really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

I’m much healthier now.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I’m doing, I always tell myself, ‚You can do better than this.‘

I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.

As you think, so shall you become.

In order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

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

I don’t think about that. I wasn’t a kid growing up saying one day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn’t on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

If I see something sagging, bagging or dragging I’ll get it nipped, tucked or sucked.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

If we say it long enough eventually we’re going to reap a harvest. We’re going to get exactly what we’re saying.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

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

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

An unclean person is universally a slothful one.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

I am just one human being.