Mary Shafer

No matter where you are in life, you’ll save a lot of time by not worrying too much about what other people think about you. The earlier in your life that you can learn that, the easier the rest of it will be.

You’ll find out that nothing that comes easy is worth a dime. As a matter of fact, I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face. Never.

It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.

An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.

If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities … the expression of love … then life itself loses its meaning.

A new day is here. Yesterday is a memory. Tomorrow is unknown. Now is the knowing.

Priority is a function of context.

We’ve realized the situation will not change so the answer is for us to change.

A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.

We will either find a way or make one.

It’s always good to be underestimated.

To be successful you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, and then resolve to pay the price to get it.

When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.