If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.
You cannot change your destination overnight. You can change your direction.
Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenge, wish for more wisdom.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.
If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs.
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.
I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention.
Those who will not read are no better off than those who cannot read.