Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strangle confidence.

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

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

Values are related to our emotions, just as we practice physical hygiene to preserve our physical health, we need to observe emotional hygiene to preserve a healthy mind and attitudes.

I am not remotely interested in just being good.

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

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.

If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain.

Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

One who believes in himself has no need to convince others.

The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.

Towering in the confidence of twenty-one.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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