Dream and you shall become.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.

Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so I could have a career if I wanted.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don’t know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

I think it’s OK to be confident in yourself.

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

I have goals.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

I teach children to be winners.

I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it’s like a circus in my head.

My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

I’m not afraid to make mistakes.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

Well, I don’t think there’s any need for people to focus on my career.

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

I have to write because if I don’t get something down then after a while I feel it’s going to bang the side of my head off.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Even the best teams can fail. Celebrities can fade. There is only One in whom your faith is always safe, and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need to let your faith show!

I don’t focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing, then I don’t worry about it.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

You can be passionate about anything.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a star. I didn’t really know what all that meant. I didn’t know.

I’m an entrepreneur. I’m a young mogul. I’m blessed.

I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

If we’re going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.