Sir Edmund Hillary

True joy comes when you inspire, encourage, and guide someone else on a path that benefits him or her.

Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

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

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.

If at first you don’t succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Brainpower is the ultimate leverage.

Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.

We all prospect, and don’t even know we’re doing it. When you start the dating process, you are actually prospecting for the person you want to marry. When you’re interviewing employees, you are prospecting for someone who will best fit your needs.

What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.

I’ve got to confess I’m a pragmatic optimist myself.

You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.

People can’t live with change if there’s not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

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.

The more you are grateful for what you have the more you will have to be grateful for.