Don’t cheat people of their growth. Empower them to solve problems and generate ideas. Watch them grow!
One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present.
Integrity is conforming reality to our words – in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.
You can’t be successful with other people if you haven’t paid the price of success with yourself.
The commitments we make to ourselves and to others, and our integrity to those commitments, is the essence and clearest manifestation of our proactivity.
Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love the verb or our loving actions. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her.
A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It’s the testing point of our character and competence.
Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don’t feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.
Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.
Begin each day with the blueprint of my deepest values FIRMLY in mind then when challenges come, make decisions BASED on those values.
The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
Trust is the highest form of human motivation.
One of the best ways to educate our hearts is to look at our interaction with other people, because our relationships with others are fundamentally a reflection of our relationship with ourselves.
Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.
All broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements.
Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.