You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

My dad used to have an expression – ‚It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.‘

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Quitting doesn’t enter my mind.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

I’ve never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

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

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.

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.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

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

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

I get nervous when I don’t get nervous. If I’m nervous I know I’m going to have a good show.

I wasn’t sure of the exact mindset you should have when you go into a Test match. So I probably became too defensive when I played my first Test match. Short balls in one-day cricket, I have never thought of just defending.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

We are what we believe we are.

You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

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 try to not focus on what people expect from me.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

You can be happy where you are.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.

Life must be lived as play.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

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

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

I actually don’t want a throne at all, because I don’t view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

Only the insecure strive for security.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.

Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don’t wish to have as their reality.

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.

I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12 year old. So I got to live an actual life. And I’ve kept that mentality. Just because there’s a hurricane going on around you doesn’t mean you have to open the window and look at it.

I’m afraid to fail again.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

It’s important for me to let my fans know I really don’t care. I’m confident.

The most important 6 inches on the battlefield is between your ears.