“Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.”

Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.

Habits are like submarines; they run silent and deep.

The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

No one is born with self confidence. Self confidence is learned and earned with experience.

The greatest choice we have is to think before we act and then take action toward our life goals every day. Our problems result not only from our lack of action, but from our action without thought.

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

All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they’re not learning, they’re not growing and not moving toward excellence.

Don’t be a time manager, be a priority manager.

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

No matter how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you still have an entire today.

Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. Your inner drives will propel you further and faster than external perks.

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

The two greatest fear busters are knowledge and action.

Start edifying the flowers. Stop pointing out the weeds.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

The heart will welcome destruction to avoid tasting loneliness -why we stay.

The art of crisis management is to raise the stakes to where the adversary will not follow, but in a manner that avoids a tit for tat.

If changes are unavoidable, nothing is permanent. If nothing is permanent, everything is temporary.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds, I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.