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!

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

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

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Instead of being critical of people in authority over you and envious of their position, be happy you’re not responsible for everything they have to do. Instead of piling on complaints, thank them for what they do. Overwhelm them with encouragement and appreciation!

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin‘, but I felt like a fighter comin‘ up, man. I felt like, you know, I’m being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

I shook up the world, I shook up the world.

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

There’s no point in starting a business unless you’re going to make a dramatic difference to other people’s lives. So if you’ve got an idea that’s gonna make a big difference to other people’s lives, then just get on and do it.

I don’t like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

A true man hates no one.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

My drive is other people’s success.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Whatever role I play is a positive role; it’s a strong role. Never negative.

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

Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don’t believe too much into inspiration, only I’m waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It’s a little too easy to say that.

If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.

Don’t give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

There’s a scripture that says, ‚A merry heart doeth good like medicine.‘ I think that’s true, too.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

There’s no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

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.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

Never regret what you don’t write.

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.