The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

To establish true self-esteem, we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

I am not remotely interested in just being good.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Aloha is free.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts prosecution.

Gratitude is the way to happiness.

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.

What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

The positive thinker see the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieve the impossible.

The less you respond to negative people, the positive your life will become.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Have to and get to—both are choices. One is negative and one is positive. Choose the right one and it can change your life.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.