Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Learn to help people with more than just their jobs: help them with their lives.

Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot.

Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy. You might know how to read, but more importantly, what’s your plan to read?

Success is not so much what we have as it is what we are.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person we become.

The best motivation is self-motivation. The guy says, “I wish someone would come by and turn me on.” What if they don’t show up? You’ve got to have a better plan for your life.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by
change.

Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

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?

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.