What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Riches don’t make a man rich, they only make him busier.

I’ve lived in a big showplace house, and I never want to live again in a house that overshadows me.

Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.

Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

My reputation grows with every failure.

It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

Everybody wants to be me. What can I say?

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.

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.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

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

Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

That’s the biggest gift I can give anybody: ‚Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you’re doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.‘

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

America is another name for opportunity.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.

My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the people. Not even always preaching but just leading, motivating them by being a leader.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

My moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don’t live angry, let go now!

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

I’ve always wanted to live above my means because it inspired me to work harder.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

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

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

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

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Nothing will work unless you do.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

I’m not a bad person.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.