Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight
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.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed.
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.
Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.
If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
How long should you try? Until.
There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.