Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

People want to feel hopeful.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

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

You fail only if you stop writing.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

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.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

Few people realize that luck is created.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Getting rich is about fun. It’s a game, and you have to treat it that way.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

Energy begets energy.

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

Before all else, be armed.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‚Run like hell and all of fire.‘ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

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

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

You need to think outside the box. You need to think differently if you want to sustain what, for me, is my peak performance: the very best that I can achieve as an athlete every day.

Americans never quit.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

I don’t go to bed at 1 A.M. and wake up at 5 A.M. and say, ‚Let’s see if I can get this done today.‘

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

I only want my work to make people happy.

It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

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

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.