An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
Make every day extraordinary no matter what your job is.
Rise early, work hard, strike oil.
When you catch a glimpse of your potential, that’s when passion is born.
If you’re proactive, you don’t have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
I gave up the guitar in 1965. Didn’t want to see a guitar. I’d go out and get drunk. When I came out of the heart surgery, the doc said, “Promise me you’ll work hard.” I said, “I thought working hard is what got me here.” He said, “No, working is what will keep you alive.”
Do not attempt to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
When you try to come for me, I keep on flourishing.
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
Better an oops’ than a what if’.
Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
Just the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That’s success.
I like to think of the word FOCUS as Follow One Course Until Successful.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent.
You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.
Don’t let mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.
Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It’s also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.
