Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That’s success.

Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward.

Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

The ability to manage well doesn’t make much difference if you’re not even in the right jungle.

When you get into a ‘tight’place and everything goes against you, until it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, it is then when you should never give up, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn.

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

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

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

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

You will have failures in your life, but it is what you do during those valleys that will determine the heights of your peaks.

We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.

Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage, but simply because they have never organised their energies around a goal.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.