Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

THE ROLE OF GOODNESS
One of Aristotle’s greatest insights on the subject of happiness was
his conclusion that “Only the good can be happy, and only the vir-
tuous can be good.”
This is one of the most important observations in the history of
human thought and experience. “Only the good can be happy, and
only the virtuous can be good.”
What I have found in my many years of research into philoso-
phy and psychology is that only people who are genuinely good
inside can be happy for any period of time. And in my years of
study of the foundation qualities of self-confidence, I have found
that only men and women with clear, positive values are able 
to develop the kind of unshakable self-confidence that makes 
it possible for them to deal effectively with anything that happens
to them.
The fastest way for you to build or to regain your self-confidence
is to become absolutely clear about your deepest values and con-
victions, and then begin to live by them. The solution to almost all