If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
You cannot fail, you can only produce results.
You are where you are and what you are because of yourself, nothing else. Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care. If you do what other successful people do, you will enjoy the same results and rewards that they do. And if you don't, you won't.
I wasn't lucky, I deserved it.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse.
When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don’t get to decide that you didn’t.
Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.
Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
Start where you are, use what you have.
Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
If anyone is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault. Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility except our own opinion.
Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust.
Lost time is never found again.