“Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.”

How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.

The man who has not learned the secret of taking the drudgery out of his task by flinging his whole soul into it, has not learned the first principles of success or happiness.

The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act.

A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.

We lend power to the things we fear!

Poverty often hides her charms under an ugly mask; yet thousands have been forced into greatness by their very struggle to keep the wolf from the door.

Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.

It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.

Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. It is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.

Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.

The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.

You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.

Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life’s machinery.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them.

You will be the beautiful prince you were always meant to be.

Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.

Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.

You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.

I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings, that they can stimulate, amaze and inspire their listeners.

I’ve always believed in the old-fashioned way: When you’ve got scoundrels in office, you vote ’em out.

It’s not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.