I wish for you a life of wealth, health and happiness; a life in which you give to yourself the gift of patience, the virtue of reason, the value of knowledge, and the influence of faith in your own ability to dream about and achieve worthy rewards.
If you don't have a plan for what you want, then you will probably find yourself buying into someone else's plan and later find out that was not the direction you wanted to go. You've got to be the architect of your life.
Wherever You Are, Be There One of the major reasons why we fail to find happiness or to create unique lifestyle is because we have not yet mastered the art of being.
The greatest gift you can give to somebody is your own personal development
Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill.
Average people look forward to "getting off." Successful people look forward to "getting on."
Sometimes those who need it the most are inclined the least.
To have an incredible increase in self esteem, all you have to do is start doing some little something. You don't have to do spectacularly dramatic things for self esteem to start going off the scale. Just make a commitment to any easy discipline. Then another one and another one.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.
The reason why I spend so much money for my journals is to press me to find something valuable to put in them.
There is no greater leadership challenge than parenting.
The goal of effective communication should be for listeners to say, 'Me, too!' versus 'So what?'
With the right attitude, human beings can move mountains. With the wrong attitude, they can be crushed by the smallest grain of sand.
The Bible give us a list of human stories on both sides of the ledger. On list of human stories is used examples - do what these people did. Another list of human stories is used as warnings - don't do what these people did. So if your story ever gets in one of these books, make sure they use it as an example, not a warning.
What is powerful is when what you say is just the tip of the iceberg of what you know
Always be eager to learn, no matter how successful you might already be. In the Millionaires' Club, we sometimes invite a billionaire to come talk to us. He says, 'You're doing okay, but come on. How about if you really poured it on!'
Leaders must learn to discipline their disappointments. It's not what happens to us, it is what we choose to do about what happens that makes the difference in how our lives turn out.
Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it and spend it rather than invest it.
Don't take the casual approach to life. Casualness leads to casualties.
Practice is just as valuable as a sale. The sale will make you a living; the skill will make you a fortune.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
My mentor said, 'Let's go do it', not 'You go do it'. How powerful when someone says, 'Let's!'
To be successful, you have to develop certain traits such as courage, dignity, charisma and integrity. You also have to recognize that you have to work harder on yourself than on your job. You attract success because of the person you are. Personal development is key.
Since you cannot control the weather, or the traffic, or the one you love, or your neighbors, or your boss, then you must learn to control you... the one whose response to the difficulties of life REALLY counts.
Lack of homework shows up in the marketplace as well as in the classroom.
