To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

If there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

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

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

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

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

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

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

Everybody asks if putting is like shooting free throws. It has a very similar kind of mindset. And it’s just you, the ball, and the target.

He who is contented is rich.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

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

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

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.

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.

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.

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.

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

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

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.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

One thing I’ve tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

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

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

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

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.

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 am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

I’m a genetic optimist.