Some people feel that the world owes them a living.

I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.

You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

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.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don’t seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

For me, bomber jackets are smart, but they are also street and have a lot of attitude.

I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.

Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

I’m a slow worker; I’m, I think, a steady worker.

It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

The special ops guys and the firefighters around the world have this great phrase. They say, ‚Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast,‘ and that is true. Everything I’ve accomplished in my life has been because of that attitude.

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

My goals are so high that I don’t have time to relax in any way, shape or form.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Stop this attitude that older people ain’t any good anymore! We’re as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

I’m only going to stand before God and give an account for my life, not for somebody else’s life. If I have a bad attitude, then I need to say there’s no point in me blaming you for what’s wrong in my life.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

An honest man’s the noblest work of God.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man… It is more powerful than external circumstances.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

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

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

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.‘

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

You’ll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day’s work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.