“One of the deepest principles of life and leadership: it’s not about you.”

None of us is as smart as all of us.

If God had wanted us to talk more than listen, he would have given us two mouths rather than two ears.

What we give our attention to, grows.

It never hurts to toot your own horn once in a while.

Perpetual prosperity comes to those who help others.

Start your day with good intentions and set yourself up for a good attitude. It’s not what happens to you that matters but how you respond.

Successful organizations have one common central focus: Customers.

Do your best to succeed and push the limits without violating them.

Nice guys may appear to finish last, but usually they are running a different race.

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.

When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.

No one can make you serve customers well. That’s because great service is a choice.

The cure for too much to do is solitude and silence.

Vision comes alive when everyone sees where his or her contribution makes a difference.

Your game is only as good as your practice.

Things not worth doing are not worth doing well.

It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.

There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.

For he has conquered death, with the gift of His last breath. Go now, and share the news, the Savior beckons you.

Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.

We break ourselves to fit better into all the wrong hearts.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.

We are all broken things. But there’s so much beauty in those cracks. And so much strength in those places we’ve mended.