Relish the opportunity to be an outsider. Embrace that label – being an outsider is fine, embrace the label – because it’s the outsiders who change the world and who make a real and lasting difference.
Fortunately, problems are an everyday part of our life. Consider this: If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Your income rarely exceeds your personal development.
It is in the ordinary events of every day that we develop the proactive capacity to handle the extraordinary pressures of life. It’s how we make and keep commitments, how we handle a traffic jam, how we respond to an irate customer or a disobedient child. It’s how we view our problems and where we focus our energies. It’s the language we use.
As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.
The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.
Making money isn’t about what you learned in school. It’s about our values, strengths, weaknesses, and interests.
You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.
You dont have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.
There is no substitute for hard work.
Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen.
You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.
Risk-taking is the cornerstone of empires.
Vision doesn’t usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.
I don’t know exactly what’s next but I’m stepping forward with grit anchored in grace.
I can’t understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I’m frightened by old ones.
