Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author.
Be a collector of good ideas, but don’t trust your memory. The best collecting place for all of the ideas and information that comes your way is your journal.
Don’t sell out your virtue and your value for something you think you want. Judas got the money, but he threw it all away and hung himself because he was so unhappy with himself.
Someone once said to me that success isn’t everything and I think I know what they really meant. I believe what they really meant was that money wasn’t everything and I certainly agree with that. But I do believe that success IS everything.
It’s not what happens, it’s what you do that determines your future.
Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy.
To attract attractive people, you must be attractive.
The difference between being ordinary and extraordinary is doing the right thing while nobody is watching.
Good people are found not changed. They can change themselves, but you can’t change them. You want good people, you have to find them. If you want motivated people, you have to find them, not motivate them.
Goals. There’s not telling what you can do when you get inspired by them.
If someone hands you a million dollars, best you become a millionaire, or you won’t get to keep the money.
You may not be able to do all you find out, but make sure you find out all you can do.
The key to turning dreams into reality is action.
Activity leads to productivity.
The least lack of discipline starts to erode our self-esteem.
Words enable us to transfer our thoughts from inside our own mind into the mind of another. They have the power to alter history, to describe the past, and to bring meaning and substance to the present.
We must remind ourselves that to do what is possible we must sometimes challenge ourselves with the impossible.
There is an ancient script that says, ‘He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be ignorant.’ But I took off the last word and it now reads for me like this: He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be!
Live a life that will help others spiritually, intellectually, physically, financially and relationally. Live a life that serves as a example of what an exceptional life can look like.
It’s not dependency that creates your future. It’s independence that creates your better future.