We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you’ve blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping .

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

Over the years, I’ve learned that a confident person doesn’t concentrate or focus on their weaknesses – they maximize their strengths.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

I would never exchange my life with anybody else’s.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

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

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

Aim for the highest.

I don’t have emotional needs, only physical ones.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Happy the people whose annals are vacant.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

I have always liked running, so it wasn’t particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you need is a pair of running shoes and you can do it anywhere. It does not require anybody to do it with, and so I found the sport perfectly fits me as a person who tends to be independent and individualistic.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one’s hopes in a pile of broken crockery.

Health consists with temperance alone.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

Little things affect little minds.

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.