“Do not desire to fit in. Desire to lead.”

Individuals sometimes feel insignificant and doubt that one person can really make a difference in this world. Well, believe me, one person can.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Make people who work for you feel important. If you honor and serve them, they’ll honor and serve you.

There’s a big difference between a decisive manager and a tyrant.

Let people know that you appreciate their performance and they will respond by doing even better.

We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don’t know where you’re aiming, you don’t have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared.

The more enjoyment people derive from their work, the better they will produce.

Each of us wants to feel good about himself or herself, but to me it is just as important to make others feel the same way.

People will support that which they help to create.

Left unattended, problems only intensify.

Don’t limit yourself.

I do believe in encouraging a person to compete with herself… at Mary Kay Cosmetics, we’ve made that philosophy a company policy.

You can go as far as your mind lets you.

The first step is the hardest – making a commitment to yourself, for yourself.

Over the years, I have observed that nearly all high achievers know how to make good of those 1440 minutes in each day.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise – it makes you stretch.

There always will be people to put you down, make sure there always is your desire to stay strong.

Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.

There Are But Two Tragedies in Life-One is One’s Inability to attain One’s Heart’s Desire-The Other Is To Have It!

Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.

Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.

I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death.

Some men’s desires are without limits.