“You are an uncut gemstone of priceless value. Cut and polish your potential with knowledge, skills and service and you will be in great demand throughout your life.”

There never was a winner, who wasn’t a beginner.

Perseverance does not always mean sticking to the same thing forever. It means giving full concentration and effort to whatever you are doing right now.

If you concentrate on the present, you eliminate what happened yesterday and any apprehension of what may happen tomorrow.

The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we’ve already achieved them.

No gift can ever replace the value of being there in person.

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.

The most important key to the permanent enhancement of self esteem is the practice of positive inner-talk.

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what’s happening out there. It’s how you take it that counts.

Always give more in service, than you receive in payment, and customers will beat a path to your door.

The real champions in life are so humble and gracious. They just continue doing what they do without all the posturing. If you’ve got the real thing, you don’t have to flaunt a loud imitation.

The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

You must feel love within, before you can share it.

Recognize when your peak energy occurs during the day. Allocate the most difficult projects to that period. Work on easy projects at low-energy times

The primary success factor is knowing how to learn from others and rely on yourself.

Habits are like comfortable beds. They are easy to get into, but difficult to get out of.

Information is not knowledge.

The real art is knowing what to leave out, not what to put in.

Once you stop learning, you start dying.

It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.

Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.

Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.

Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.

People cannot become truly knowledgeable without being excellent readers.