“Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.”

The world is so full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. He has little competition.

If you want others to like you, if you want to develop real friendships, if you want to help others at the same time as you help yourself, keep this principle in mind: Become genuinely interested in other people.

People aren’t interested in you. They’re interested in themselves.

If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.

The way to defeat fear: decide on a course of conduct and follow it. Keep so busy and work so hard that you forget about being afraid.

When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.

Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.

If you must make a mistake, make a new one each time.

If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don’t want to be.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Abilities wither under criticism; they blossom under encouragement.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Your smile brightens the lives of all who see it. To someone who has seen a dozen people frown, scowl or turn their faces away, your smile is like the sun breaking through the clouds.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.

Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.

When something feels real, you don’t make any apologies for it. When it feels good to you, nothing else matters. Everything else is just noise.

Life’s great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

We all aspire to happiness and we all shun suffering.

Happiness is not something you find, but rather something you create.