Denise Brennan-Nelson

People are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves. That is why they remain bound.

80 Percent of the constraints, the factors that are holding you back from achieving your goals, are internal.

Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.

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

There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests gets together to work toward the same goals.

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.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

It takes no compromise to give people their rights … it takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give them freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression.

You’ve got to be before you can do and do before you can have.

‘Someday’ is the day after you die.

When I thought I couldn’t go on, I forced myself to keep going. My success is based on persistence, not luck.

One does not always do the best there is. One does the best one can. – Catherine the Great

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

Do more than you are being paid to do, and you’ll eventually be paid more for what you do.

It was a feeling I had. People were taught how to think, we’re taught how to feel. We don’t know how to think for ourselves, [and] we don’t know how to feel for ourselves. People say ‘Feel free,’ but they don’t really want us to feel free. I felt a freedom, first of all, doing something that everybody tells you not to do.