“Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.”

Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.

Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.

Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.

Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.

When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.

…the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation’s destiny, by men willing to adventure, to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.

Jealousy… is a mental cancer.

The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.

Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.

If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.

The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.

Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.

We never get to love by hate, least of all by self-hatred.

Let not a man’s self be to him all in all.

As Christians learn how self-styled Jews have spent millions of dollars to manufacture the ‘Jewish myth’ for Christian consumption and that they have done this for economic and political advantage.

If I’m being forced to do something I don’t want to do, my real self comes out. But whether or not I’m aware of it, no matter what happens, I’m always going to have a fake self and I’m not going to judge my fake self.

When we give up our images of self-importance and our ideas of what should be, we can help things become what they need to be.

Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.

Then when I fire, you see, I have the verdict of self-defence on my side. I know that he is pretty certain in his hurry, to miss. I never do.