Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That’s the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

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.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you’re above everybody else.

Older people sit down and ask, ‚What is it?‘ but the boy asks, ‚What can I do with it?‘.

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don’t be discouraged… just be willing to change.

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

There are no second acts in American lives.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people’s happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways.

The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go… if it’s not a part of your God-given destiny.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

There are certain things that bother me and certain things that don’t. Personal attacks on me? I think I’m just so used to it.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

Man is not made for defeat.

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

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.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

Competition is a sin.