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.
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.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future it is something you design for the present.
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.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future it is something you design for the present.
Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.
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 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.
Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future it is something you design for the present.
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.
Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
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.
The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.
Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.
Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.