The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.
The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one’s ‘own,’ or ‘real’ life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life – the life God is sending one day by day.
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul.
There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others.
Done is better than perfect.
When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.
The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
To hold, you must first open your hand. Let go.
The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
Meditate. Breathe consciously. Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment. Make the connection.
All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed – only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.
Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.