• When you identify something that you do well, that you enjoy doing, and that supports the values that are important to you, you have defined success in your terms.
• The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.
• There are really only two ways to approach life - as victim or as gallant fighter - and you must decide if you want to act or react, deal your own cards or play with a stacked deck. And if you don't decide which way to play with life, it always plays with you.
• Try and live your life the way you wish other people would live theirs.
• No one can make you inferior without your consent.
• Stop talking about the problem and start thinking about the solution.
• Always focus on accomplishments rather than activities.
• There are some things you don't have to know how it works - only that it works. While some people are studying the roots, others are picking the fruit. It just depends on which end of this you want to get in on.
• When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't have done.
• The two major sources of value today are time and knowledge. Find new ways every day to use them better.
• You can cut down a tree with a hammer, but it takes about 30 days. If you trade the hammer for an ax, you can cut it down in about 30 minutes. The difference between 30 days and 30 minutes is skill.
• Don't point a finger - lend a hand.
• Very few burdens are heavy if everyone lifts.
• True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare;
False ones, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere.
• There is no ethnic bigotry here, you are all equally worthless.
• Sometimes fame is just a matter of dying at the right time.
• Freedom requires that we learn and put into practice the three R's - Respect, Responsibility, and Restraint.
• If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
• Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
• The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.
• He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much. ..
• One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness - simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience. Happiness is no vague dream, of that I now feel certain.
• When you identify something that you do well, that you enjoy doing, and that supports the values that are important to you, you have defined success in your terms.
• The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.
• Freedom requires that we learn and put into practice the three R's - Respect, Responsibility, and Restraint.
• Determine your unifying principles in life and resolve to live by them.
• Count the cost first. Don't pay too big a price for pursuing minor values.
• To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
• Heroism consists of hanging on one minute longer.
• Others will underestimate us, for although we judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, others judge us only by what we have already done.
• It's not that people want too much, it's that they want too little.
• If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
• There's only one endeavor in which you can start at the top, and that's digging a hole.
• Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
• Start from wherever you are and with whatever you've got.
• Many risks fail because they were not taken in time. Too many risks are postponed until unnecessarily elaborate preparations are made. This does not mean that one should say, 'Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!' That is foolish and self-destructive...But don't sit back waiting for the perfect moment. It almost never comes.
• Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
• In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
• The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.
• The most important thing about a man is what he believes in the depth of his being. This is the thing that makes him what he is, the thing that organizes him and feeds him; the thing that keeps him going in the face of untoward circumstances; the thing that gives him resistance and drive.
