The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

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

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

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.

I’m not a natural joiner.

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don’t see what goes on underground – as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don’t see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.

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.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

I was of the generation where most of the Disney princesses and female characters were not girls that I admired. They just weren’t characters I looked up to and identified with.

‚Your Erroneous Zones’ was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

I’m going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

I’ve learned through my own relationship with God that He’s not expecting me to be perfect; He wants me to do my best to be in His will and take steps of faith as He leads me, through His Word and the promptings He speaks to my heart.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

I just think it’s so important not to take yourself too seriously.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

I’ve always strived to be successful, not famous.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

I’m no natural beauty. If I’m gonna have any looks at all, I’m gonna have to create them.

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I’m working on the foundation.