People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

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

Giving up cannot be an option.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy.

You can do the same thing with $20 million that you would do with $50 million. So at a certain point in your life and in your career, you realise that it’s not about the money.

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.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.

I’m not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

I don’t want to be an action star, an action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

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.

The question is not, ‚Do you have a problem?‘ The question is, ‚Does the problem have you?‘

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

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.

You can be happy where you are.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

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

Mind over mattress.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

Be not a slave of words.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

Many of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better… I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.

I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I’m not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I’m going to do something, I have to do it.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

I don’t think I am evangelical in my work.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But I had to really push myself to be a writer.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

Well, I don’t think there’s any need for people to focus on my career.

I always make my dreams into goals.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.