Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

I teach children to be winners.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy.

I’m never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

As you think, so shall you become.

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

The best way out is always through.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

I want to appeal to everyone. Because I’m not saying I’m the best, but we the best.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

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.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

Never, never, never give up.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

Don’t give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you.

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.

If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

I didn’t know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

I’ve got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

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

If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.