When you realize that people treat you according to how they see themselves rather than how you really are, you are less likely to be affected by their behavior.
For the person trying to do everything alone, the game really is over. If you want to do something big, you must link up with others. One is too small a number to achieve greatness. That’s the Law of Significance.
Your thinking, more than anything else, shapes the way you live. It’s really true that if you change your thinking, you can change your life.
If you are a leader, the true measure of your success is not getting people to work. It’s not getting people to work hard. It is getting people to work hard together. That takes commitment.
Nobody wanders his or her way to a dream, and nobody achieves a dream by accident. Don’t shortcut the process and risk cheating yourself out of your dream!
Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.
I’ve never known a person focused on yesterday to have a better tomorrow.
To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.
A person of responsibility can trust himself to choose the right thing over the easy thing.
The difference between where we are and where we want to be is created by the changes we are willing to make in our lives. When you want something you’ve never had, you must do something you’ve never done to get it.
Knowing the future is difficult, controlling the future is impossible. Knowing today is essential; controlling today is possible.
When the dream is right for the person and the person is right for the dream, the two cannot be separated from each other.
If you’re always at the head of the class, then you’re in the wrong class.
Our destiny is determined, not by what we possess, but by what possess us.
If you want to do something really big, do it as part of a team.
Vision without passion is a picture without possibilities.
All great leaders have understood that their number one responsibility is cultivating their own discipline and personal growth. Those who cannot lead themselves cannot lead others.
Actions are remembered long after words are forgotten.
Our attitudes cannot stop our feelings, but they can keep our feelings from stopping us.
We don’t mature momentarily, but over the long-term.