To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

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.

Forget the past.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

Never find fault with the absent.

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

I don’t want to be too critical of what other people do, but when people go back to do the same thing that they did, I’m completely confused. I’m like, ‚Didn’t you make that movie already?‘ I’ve been very fortunate, and I’m well taken care of, so the least I can do is try to go forward.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

Character is power.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

Be not simply good – be good for something.

One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

I was saluted by Alex Ferguson when I was subbed and that made me very happy.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

Nothing will work unless you do.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

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

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

Maria is the best reason to come home.