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!

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It’s not true that I’m happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

There wasn’t much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

Of course, I do everything for money.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

That’s all I could ever hope for, to have a positive effect on women. ‚Cos women are powerful, powerful beings. But they’re also the most doubtful beings. They’ll never know – we’ll never know – how powerful we are.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

I teach children to be winners.

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.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

Just do some kind of workout. Doesn’t matter if it’s going for a walk around the block, going for a jog, doing some calisthenics, lifting weights, going to a pool and swimming – you name it. But do something that gets your blood flowing and gets your mind in the game.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Success is not a stop sign.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

When I used to play sports, I’d be the one cheering the team on, ‚Come on, we can beat these guys!‘ That’s just in me.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‚O God, forgive me,‘ or ‚Help me.‘

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

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

We work to become, not to acquire.

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It’s easy to get discouraged in life.

My dad used to have an expression – ‚It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.‘

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

I’ve been very fortunate.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

People who pity themselves think, ‚Why would I try to do anything? I’ll just fail.‘

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

You can be passionate about anything.