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.
There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight
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.
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
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.
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.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
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.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
