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.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.

Why go through life if you’re not going to challenge yourself?

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

Better is the enemy of good.

To make headway, improve your head.

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.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

It’s a rule to give all, and it can make the difference if you work more. If you don’t have to give all, and you still win, what’s this?

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it’s about earning approval and acceptance.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

What is common sense isn’t common practice.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Desire is the essence of a man.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.

I’m not going to change the world. You’re not going to change the world. But we can help – we can all help.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.

I don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

I was never particularly fond of my voice.

I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

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

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.

Energy begets energy.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people’s actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

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.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.