Robert Louis Stevenson

Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand-new day.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don’t pay the price day in and day out, you’ll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

The problem is not the problem; the problem is your attitude about the problem.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

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.

He was also efficient and gave me his four-step formula for success: 1. Get in. 2. Get it done. 3. Get it done right. 4. And get out.

When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough.

Better an ‘oops’ than a ‘what if’.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Since belief determines behavior, doesn’t it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?

Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.

Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don’t have the balls to live in the real world.