Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

I don’t think I’m an unlucky person.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

Be content to seem what you really are.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

Spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and fulfilling your purpose.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

I love making people laugh. And I love laughing.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that’s the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‚Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.‘

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children – and the next day, it’s completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that’s when I had to man up.

I’m grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

I’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Even when a person has all of life’s comforts – good food, good shelter, a companion – he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

You’ll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.