David W. Johnson

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.

Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.

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.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

All one needs to do is read – books, magazines, research the Internet – and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching’ in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

That’s how we do it… we give back to the people who made us who we are. We never forget that.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.