Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Tony Robbins

You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.
Tony Robbins

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
Tony Robbins

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Ronald Reagan

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
Ronald Reagan

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
Ronald Reagan

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.
Ronald Reagan

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.
Ronald Reagan

When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.
Ronald Reagan

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
Ronald Reagan

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Mark Twain

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Mark Twain

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
Mark Twain

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain

Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.
Mark Twain

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
Mark Twain

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.
Warren Buffett

You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln