People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

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.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

I’ve learned never to say never.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

We can approach God’s throne with boldness because we are confident in the power of what Jesus accomplished for us at the cross.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

I wouldn’t say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.

Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

I’m telling you there is hope. I have seen it, but it does not come from the governments or corporations. It comes from the people.

I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.

We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

I’m not the greatest; I’m the double greatest. Not only do I knock ‚em out, I pick the round.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point – a cactus, not a cushion.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

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.

I’m a big believer in doing things that make you uncomfortable. So, we live in a world where we want to be as comfortable as we can. And we wonder why we have no growth. We wonder why – when the smallest thing in our life gets difficult – we wonder why we cower and we run away.

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

I feel like my message is to let people know that God is a good God, that He’s on their side, and no matter what happens, He has a great plan for them.

No driver is perfect.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

It is natural to want to have a future.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

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.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

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

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.