“Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.”

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.

Believe you will be successful and you will.

Everybody in the world is seeking happiness – and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn’t depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.

He who conquers the mind, conquers the world.

Conquer yourself and you can conquer everything else.

The world is already yours – why try to conquer it?

If we have not achieved our early dreams, we must either find new ones or see what we can salvage from the old. If we have accomplished what we set out to do in our youth, we need not weep like Alexander the Great that we have no more worlds to conquer.

By endurance we conquer.

SPIRITUAL EXERCISES whereby to conquer oneself, and order one’s life, without being influenced in one’s decision by any inordinate affection.

Whoever can conquer the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any dictatorship-run state has its roots in the street.

A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.