I believe success is achieved by ordinary people with extraordinary determination.
It’s no longer a question of staying healthy. It’s a question of finding a sickness you like.
You can succeed at almost anything for which you have unbridled enthusiasm.
We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
Take action. Every story you’ve ever connected with, every leader you’ve ever admired, every puny little thing that you’ve ever accomplished is the result of taking action. You have a choice. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life.
I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can’t truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
Every setback might be the very thing that makes you carry on and fight all the harder and become much better.
It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word ‘pessimist’ was not in our vocabulary at that time. It’s a modern ‘invention’ which I believe we should ‘dis-invent.’
You don’t have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going.
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
The great majority of people are wandering generalities rather than meaningful specifics. The fact is that you can’t hit a target that you can’t see. If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. You have to have goals.
Americans never quit.
Projecting your mind into a successful situation is the most powerful means to achieve goals.
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
A habit is like a cable: we weave a thread of it everyday, and at last we cannot break it – so we must form good, positive, and productive habits.
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word: excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
True joy comes when you inspire, encourage, and guide someone else on a path that benefits him or her.
