“Abilities wither under criticism; they blossom under encouragement.”

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Remember that other people may be totally wrong. But they don’t think so. Don’t condemn them. Any fool can do that. Try to understand them. Only wise, tolerant, exceptional people even try to do that.

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

When we have accepted the worst, we have nothing more to lose. And that automatically means we have everything to gain.

It isn’t work that makes you tired, it’s your mental attitude.

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, “Things that never happened.”

Talk to someone about themselves and they’ll listen for hours.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.

Don’t be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.

Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

Believe that you will succeed, and you will.

By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Intuition is neither the ability to engage prophecy nor a means of avoiding financial loss or painful relationships. It is actually the ability to use energy data to make decisions in the immediate moment.

Debt gives you the ability to look like you’re winning when you’re not.

We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.

When the world question your abilities, respond with your actions.

We’ve really got to stop looking to Washington to fix our problems. It obviously doesn’t have the ability to do that. People who are successful are not successful because of the president.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn’t want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.