Habits begin as offhanded remarks, ideas and images. And then, layer upon layer, through practice, they grow from cobwebs into cables that shackle or strengthen our lives.
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.
Time And health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.
A good life is a collection of happy memories.
The real risk is doing nothing.
Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.
Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.
Give your best effort, because you are worth your best effort.
Motivation is motive in action.
When you visualize, then you materialize.
When you speak, ask questions. Don’t lecture.
Since most of our fears are based on dark imaginings, it is vital for us to dwell on our magnificent obsessions and desired results – to look at where we want to go, as opposed to that troubled place where we may have been or may still be hiding.
Opportunity never knocks; it is within you.
You are either the captain or the captive of your thoughts.
Not aptitude... attitude is the criterion for success.
Winning is coming in fourth, exhausted and encouraged-because last time you came in fifth.
Get out of that comfortable rut.
Make this moment the moment of truth about yourself. You have been selling short all of your life.
Winning” is taking the talent or potential you were born with, and have since developed, and using it fully toward a goal or purpose that makes you happy.