Live the law of love. We encourage obedience to the laws of life when we live the laws of love.
If we overcome the pull and “get up and get at it,” we will have won a victory. We have kept our own resolve. We can then move to other things, for by small means great things are accomplished. Thus, even this one small step is also in another sense a giant leap.
You can’t live principals you can’t understand.
As human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values.
He who has a why can deal with any what or how.
The key to creating passion in your life is to find your unique talents, and your special role and purpose in the world.
The power to distinguish between person and performance and to communicate intrinsic worth flows naturally out of our own sense of intrinsic worth.
Frustration is a function of our expectations, and our expectations are often a reflection of the social mirror rather than our own values and priorities.
Being humble does not mean being weak, reticent, or self-effacing. It means recognizing principle and putting it ahead of self. It means standing firmly for principle, even in the fact of opposition.
Over time, I have come to this simple definition of leadership: Leadership is getting results in a way that inspires trust.
Give no answer to contentious arguments or irresponsible accusations. Let such things “fly out open windows” until they spend themselves.
If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character.
It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it.
It is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
In a very real sense, there are only two roles in organisations: customers and suppliers. Everybody functions simultaneously in both roles, whether inside or outside the organisation the essence of good business, therefore, is the quality of the relationship between customer and supplier.
Always surround yourself with people who are even more talented and competent than you.
If you don’t know yourself, if you don’t control yourself, if you don’t have mastery over yourself, it’s very hard to like yourself, except in some short-term, psych-up, superficial way.
Principles are natural laws that are external to us and that ultimately control the consequences of our actions. Values are internal and subjective and represent that which we feel strongest about in guiding our behavior.
Our problems and pain are universal and increasing, and the solutions to the problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history.
If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.