Living without a definite major purpose promises nothing but a scant living.

Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

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

Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.

Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part.

The cure is, is worse than the disease.

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

The tepee is much better to live in: always clean, warm in winter, cool in summer; easy to move…Indians and animals know better how to live than white man; nobody can be in good health if he does not have all the time fresh air, sunshine, and good water.

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Loosen up. Life is a lesson. Learn from it and progress on!

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

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

Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl of be found in the dark folds of life.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that setbacks and griefs which endure help us in our march forward.

Never cross a man, not afraid to die.

A winner never taught me how to quit.

I just want God’s will. And He’s allowed to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promise land . . . So I’m happy tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man.

Keep your mind off the things you don’t want by keeping it on the things you do want.

If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

Every moment is made glorious by the light of love.

Either you run the day, or the day runs you.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

Now is the accepted time.

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

Don’t make yourself miserable with what is to come or not to come.

What you are is what you have been. What you will be is what you do now.

In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is. waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.

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 compromise your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

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.

A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.

America’s abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the “common good,” but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.

Silver and gold I have none; but such as I have give I thee.

Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.

Oh! poverty is a weary thing, 'tis full of grief and pain; it keepeth down the soul of man, as with an iron chain.

Beware of over concern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.