Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
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.
Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.
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.
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.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
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.
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?
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
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.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
