If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
Often, the most extraordinary opportunities are hidden among the seemingly insignificant events of life. If we do not pay attention to these events, we can easily miss the opportunities.
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.
You don't have to change that much for it to make a great deal of difference. A few simple disciplines can have a major impact on how your life works out in the next 90 days, let alone in the next 12 months or the next 3 years.
Count the cost first. Don’t pay too big a price for pursuing minor values.
If you are not financially independent by the time you are forty or fifty, it doesn't mean that you are living in the wrong country or at the wrong time. It simply means that you have the wrong plan.
For things to change, you have to change.
motivation alone is not enough.if you have an idiot and you motivate him,now you have a motivated idiot.
Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author. He's picked out a favorite place to feed his body, but he doesn't have a favorite place to feed his mind!
How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness.
The more you care, the stronger you can be.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn't matter
One discipline always leads to another discipline.
Accuracy builds credibility.
The greatest gift you can give somebody is your own personal development. I used to say, "If you will take care of me, I will take care of you. "Now I say, I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me.
You cannot succeed by yourself. It's hard to find a rich hermit.
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.
Good people are found not changed. Recently I read a headline that said, 'We don't teach people to be nice. We simply hire nice people.' Wow! What a clever short cut.
The reason why most people face the future with apprehension instead of anticipation is because they don't have it well designed!
Change and everything will change for you.
Poor people have big TV's. Rich people have big libraries.
Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to doDon't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.