Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.

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

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

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

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

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.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

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

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

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

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.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

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.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

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.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time. i

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

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.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

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.

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 are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

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.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.