It's easy to carry the past as a burden instead of a school. It's easy to let it overwhelm you instead of educate you.
Life, in all its uniqueness, would not be life without the negatives and the positives.
One of the major reasons why people are not doing well is because they keep trying to get through the day. A more worthy challenge is to try to get from the day.
We must learn to help those who deserve it, not just those who need it. Life responds to deserve not need
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Nothing teaches character better than generosity.
Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to be able to express it well, you must first be able to absorb it well.
Only human beings can reorder their lives any day they choose by refining their philosophy.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Our emotions need to be as educated as our intellect. It is important to know how to feel, how to respond, and how to let life in so that it can touch you.
Life is a unique combination of "want to" and "how to" and we need to give equal attention to both.
Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.
On the way to work, concentrate on the way - not the work.
Simply making consistent investments in our self-education and knowledge banks pays major dividends throughout our lives.
Sharpen your interest in two major subjects: life and people. You will only gather information from a source if you are interested in it.
When you know what you want and you want it badly enough, you will find the ways to get it.
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.
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.
Don't spend most of your time on the voices that don't count, voices that are going to add too little worth to your future. Don't waste time on the shallow and the silly. Tune those voices out and tune in voices that are going to add something to your life
Set a goal to become a millionaire for what it makes of you to achieve it. Do it for the skills you have to learn and the person you have to become.
Opportunity shies away from need, but opportunity is attracted by talent and ability. What you don't want to happen is opportunity to turn cool on you. You don't want to offend opportunity. So the only thing you present to opportunity is ability, performance and skill. Don't present need to opportunity.
All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.
The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. That is why I wish to pay fair price for every value. If I have to pay for it or earn it, that makes something of me. If I get it for free, that makes nothing of me.
All values must be won by contest, and after they have been won, they must be defended.
An enterprising person is one who comes across a pile of scrap metal and sees the making of a wonderful sculpture. An enterprising person is one who drives through an old decrepit part of town and sees a new housing development. An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.
