Whatever good things we build end up building us.Collection: Architecture
Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.Collection: Time
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.Collection: Change
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.Collection: Brainy
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.Collection: Success
Either you run the day or the day runs you.Collection: Motivational
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.Collection: Education
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.Collection: Future
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.Collection: Fitness
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.Collection: Health
Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.Collection: Leadership
Labor gives birth to ideas.Collection: Work
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.Collection: Communication
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.Collection: Future
If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.Collection: Motivational
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.Collection: Wisdom
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.Collection: Truth
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.Collection: Life
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.Collection: Wisdom
Money is usually attracted, not pursued.Collection: Money
Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.Collection: Independence
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.Collection: Work
Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.Collection: Food
Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.Collection: Experience
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.Collection: Chance
Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.Collection: Success
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.Collection: Work
Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.Collection: Failure
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.Collection: Sad
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.Collection: Success
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.Collection: Failure
The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Leadership
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.Collection: Change
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.Collection: Change
Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.Collection: Success
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.Collection: Great
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.Collection: Communication
Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.Collection: Success
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.Collection: Money
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.Collection: Leadership
Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.
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.
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
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.