The only constant factor in life is our feelings and attitudes toward life. One of the few things that we have total control over is our own attitude.
Finding is reserved for those who reach.
There is very little difference between one who cannot read and one who will not read.
What you want will pull like a magnet. Here's the other part. What for? Purpose is stronger than object. It's the 'What for?' that's even more powerful than the object. And the more you can describe in detail to stir the emotion and the intellect and the spirit and the soul, then the more powerful the 'what for' is.
Words enable us to transfer our thoughts from inside our own mind into the mind of another. They have the power to alter history, to describe the past, and to bring meaning and substance to the present.
Words in the mind are like colors on the palette of the artist. The more colors we have access to, the easier it is to create a captivating picture on the canvas, and the more practice we give to using those many colors appropriately and uniquely, the more likely we will be to create a masterpiece of self expression.
Life responds to deserve and not to need.
Human beings are the only creatures who have the ability to write down their goals and design their future. And here is why most of us don't. We're trapped either by regret of the past or the routine of the present.
We’ve all got to worry some-but we can’t let it conquer us. Instead, let it alarm us.
Self-preservation has a tendency to lead to poverty.
When people asked Socrates, ‘What is wisdom?’ he always gave the same answer: ‘I don’t know’. In fact, Socrates never claimed to know much of anything except how to ask questions. And by asking questions, he would prove to other people that they didn’t know what they thought they knew.
You want to set a goal that is big enough that in the process of achieveing it you become someone worth becoming.
. . . escape is easier than change.
In leadership we teach we teach;Don't send your ducks to eagle school because it wont help.Ducks finishes eagle school,sees his first rabbit, makes him a friend.
What changes your world is not wishing for change; what changes your world is changing!
Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author.
Lifestyle is not an amount; it's a practice.
Enterprise is better than ease.
There are no new fundamentals.
When you change, everything will change for you. When you get better, everything will get better for you.
The least lack of discipline starts to erode our self-esteem.