There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

My father was a negative person. He actually taught me to be negative, if that makes any sense. I remember him saying: ‚You know there’s no point in expecting anything good to happen because it won’t.‘ I grew up in such a negative atmosphere.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

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

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.

Well, I wouldn’t say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

Be as you wish to seem.

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don’t need another plaque.

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

One must steer, not talk.

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

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

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

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Things do not change; we change.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

I’m different than most people. When I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I’m thinking about what I’m going to do tomorrow. It’s as if my journey is everlasting, and there is no finish line.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

My whole thing now is I know how to think properly to be successful in all aspects of my life. It’s not about ultra running or being a SEAL or pull-up records: it’s about if you want to be better you, have to change your perceived limitations and take the barriers down.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.