If you believe it will work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you believe it won’t, you will see obstacles.

There are only two kinds of people, those who accept dogmas and know it, and those who accept dogmas and don't know it.

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

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

The man who pursues happiness wisely will aim at the possession of a number of subsidiary interests in addition to those central ones upon which his life is built.

Those who drink to drown their sorrow should be told sorrow knows how to swim.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means—either may do—the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Vigor is found in the man who has not yet grown old, and discretion in the man who is not too young.

The weight of this sad time we must obey; speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most: we that are young, shall never see so much, nor live so long.

There are two ways to get enough: One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its own storms, it has its tides, and in its depths, it has its pearls too.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Life does not consist of facts. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively.

Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts, of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

To a greater force, and to a better nature, you, free, are subject, and that creates the mind in you, which the heavens have not in their charge. Therefore if the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.

The change in motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

If you ask enough people, eventually someone will say yes.

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consist in nothing more than in the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. A man can cultivate this faculty only by an appreciation for the finer things in life.

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.