If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight

Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

The destination of the seeker… depends on the road he takes.

Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.

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.

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.

The only 'break' anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made 'break'.

You can't make souffle rise twice.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

Real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.