The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

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.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

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.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

The main thing that’s missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics.

It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.

The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Every time you think the problem is ‚out there,‘ that very thought is the problem.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

You’ll see it when you believe it.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

I think California has the best energy.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

I have always thought I was the best ever player.

I don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

The first rap CD that I had, it was so different for me. The energy, the wordplay, all that caught my attention, and I liked it.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: ‚Oh, that’s just the way things are done around here.‘ Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

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 you think, so shall you become.

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

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

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

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

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.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.