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.
There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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.
There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
You can make just about anything of your life-anything you will believe or will visualize, anything you will pray for and work for. Look deeply into your mind. Amazing wonders are there. Whatever the situation may be, you can improve it.
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.
When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires.
Remember this: Nothing worth doing ever, ever, ever came easy. Following your convictions means you must be willing to face criticism from those who lack the same courage to do what is right.
Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.
If at first you don’t succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
You will have failures in your life, but it is what you do during those valleys that will determine the heights of your peaks.
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.
You’ve got to say, “I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough, I can have it.” It’s called perseverance.
We’ve realized the situation will not change so the answer is for us to change.
If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.
Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.
You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.
Hold yourself to a higher standard than anybody else expects of you.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
