Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.
If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete.
Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.
Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.
That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
We can have more than we've got because we can become more than we are.
You change your life by changing your heart.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.
Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back.
When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes.
No sanction can stand against ignited minds.
Life is a gift from God, an unlimited series of opportunities to find the good in ourselves and others. There is good in everything, if we are willing to see it.