The amount you give isn't important. What matters is what that amount represents in terms of your life.
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
I teach kids how to be rich by the time they are age 40, 35 if they are extra bright. Most kids think they are extra bright, so they go for 35.
We must not mistake kindness for weakness. Kindness isn't weak. Kindness is a certain type of strength.
Kids ought to have two bicycles, one to ride and one to rent.
You cannot change the seasons, but you can change yourself.
If you learn to set a good sail, the wind that blows will always take you to the dreams you want, the income you want, and the treasures of mind, purse, and soul you want.
A life worth living is a life worth recording.
Asking is the beginning of receiving.
Activity leads to productivity!
The greatest step toward success is self confidence. The greatest builder of self confidence is self esteem, and self esteem comes from doing the daily things you know you should do. Your self esteem will start to soar when you make some critical decisions - decisions to walk a new road, to start a new direction, to start a new discipline.
I'm working full-time on my job and part time on my fortune. But it won't be long before I'm working full-time on my fortune. . . can you imagine what my life will look like?
Successful people are action oriented.
It takes time to build a corporate work of art. It takes time to build a life. And it takes time to develop and grow. So give yourself, your enterprise, and your family the time they deserve and the time they require.
Imagination is the beginning of reality.
I found it easier to get rich than I did to make excuses.
There is no better opportunity to receive more than to be thankful for what you already have. Thanksgiving opens the windows of opportunity for ideas to flow your way.
The best motivating is self-motivating. The guy says, "I wish someone would come by and turn me on. "What if they don't show up? You've got to have a better plan for your life."
The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.
Take advice, but don't take orders.
Fascination is one step beyond interest. Interested people want to know if it works. Fascinated people want to learn how it works.
Pull your boots up by the bootstrap and know that everything is temporary. All good moments are temporary and all bad moments are temporary. Nothing lasts forever.
Making the most of your life is unusual. That's why you need to develop unusual habits to earn outstanding rewards.
Goals. There's no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There's no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There's no telling what will happen when you act upon them.
Life responds to deserve and not to need. It doesn't say,"If you need,you will reap." It says,"If you plant you will reap."The guys says,"I really need to reap."Then you really need to plant.