Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.

You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.