Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

No man was ever great by imitation.

This industry has been really good to me. It’s been a great life. I’m not through yet. I’m ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

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

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

You can never get enough of what you don’t want.

Hope is a waking dream.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

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.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

I’m not good at talking about myself.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

Act, and God will act.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

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.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.

A great man is always willing to be little.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

I think you’re working and learning until you die.

Losing is tough.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

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.

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.