Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.
If what you’re working for really matters, you’ll give it all you’ve got.
Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.
You may have the loftiest goals, the highest ideals, the noblest dreams, but remember this: nothing works unless you do.
The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret.
One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.
Goal-setting illuminates the road to success just as runway lights illuminate the landing field for an incoming aircraft.
Training teaches how. Education teaches why.
A decision is made with the brain. A commitment is made with the heart. Therefore, a commitment is much deeper and more binding than a decision.
People can be unreliable and disloyal; possessions can lose their value; jobs that once stimulated you can become boring. But principles remain steady through it all.
The process of growing and learning always involves risk.
Make a strong commitment to reach your full potential as a human being.
What if you could be anything, or anybody, you chose to be? Think about it. What would you choose to be?
Success doesn’t come to you; you must go to it. The trail is well traveled. If you want to walk it, you can.
Some people procrastinate so much that all they can do is run around like firefighters all day – putting out fires that should not have gotten started in the first place.
When the truly great people discover that they have been deceived by the signposts along the road of life, they just shift gears and keep going.