The possession of anything begins in the mind.

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

I’ve read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home, I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I’ve read because he is, like, a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I’m not a big reader.

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what’s been on your mind so you can think about what you’ve been thinking about.

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

I still think I am the greatest.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

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

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

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

My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

Well, you know, I’m the forever optimist.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I’m a realist.

I like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.

I thought I couldn’t make a difference because I was too small.

I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business.

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

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

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

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately… you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

Belief creates the actual fact.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

I think we need more idiot control.

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

I’m a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.

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

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

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you’re above everybody else.