It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
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?
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
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.
When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.
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.
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.
Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
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.
There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.
Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
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.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals
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.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
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.
How long should you try? Until.
Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
