Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.
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.
Life is a unique combination of "want to" and "how to" and we need to give equal attention to both.
On the way to work, concentrate on the way - not the work.
Leaders, whether in the family, in business, in government, or in education, must not allow themselves to mistake intentions for accomplishments .
Labor gives birth to ideas.
Sophistication and lifestyle is understanding the difference between trinkets and treasures.
At the end of each day, you should play back the tapes of your performance. The results should either applaud you or prod you.
When you know what you want and you want it badly enough, you will find the ways to get it.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.
Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it and spend it rather than invest it.
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.
Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.
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.
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.
Money is usually attracted, not pursued.
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.
If you learn to set a good sail, the wind that blows will always take you to the dreams you want, the income you want, and the treasures of mind, purse, and soul you want.
It takes time to build a corporate work of art. It takes time to build a life. And it takes time to develop and grow. So give yourself, your enterprise, and your family the time they deserve and the time they require.
I found it easier to get rich than I did to make excuses.
Goals. There's no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There's no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There's no telling what will happen when you act upon them.
Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.
You must get good at one of two things; planting in the spring or begging in the fall.
It is not the hours of practice that matter...it's what you put into the hours that counts.