Steve Pavlina

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

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

Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It’s also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.

Rise early, work hard, strike oil.

The most important thing is to know that you can do it.

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

True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain.

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.

The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.

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

I believe success is achieved by ordinary people with extraordinary determination.