“Most people spend most of their time on low-priority busywork because it requires no additional knowledge, skills, or imagination-or courage. In a word, it’s easier.”

Don’t let negative people determine your self-worth.

You are your own scriptwriter and the play is never finished, no matter what your age or position in life.

Commitment is that turning point in your life when you seize the moment to alter your destiny.

We’ve got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.

God’s Law of Cause and Effect: Your rewards in life will always be equal to the amount and quality of service rendered, in the long run.

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

Don’t wait for mentors to seek you out. Don’t ever wait for your phone calls to be returned, your letters to be answered, your faxes to be responded to. Keep going out and asking question.

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

The winner’s edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner’s edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.

You can only do good if you feel good.

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Time And health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.

Real motivation is that drive from within: You know where you are going because you have a compelling image inside, not a travel poster on the wall.

Unless what you say benefits the other person, don’t say it.

Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don’t have to like it. It’s just easier if you do.

It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it’s helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, “You’re caught in the dream.”

All that matters is getting the songs played well, trying to get them to sound as close to the record live, which isn’t easy, because my music is quite complicated to play.

To lie about a far country is easy.

Change might not be fast and it isn’t always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.

This makes his writing very pleasing to read: João Gilberto Noll pays attention to detail, but only to certain details. And it’s never easy to foresee which details will send the narrator or the plot in an unsuspected direction.

It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.

I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don’t understand.