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

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.

You never really fail until you stop wanting.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

Every time I feel tired while I am exercising and training, I close my eyes to see that picture, to see that list with my name. This usually motivates me to work again.

All exercises that you do with your own bodyweight are great.

No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.

I’m addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.