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

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.

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.

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.

Real success comes in small portions day by day.

The truth is, you don’t break a bad habit; you replace it with a good one.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

The most important three words you can say to yourself: Yes I can!

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men’s thinking about themselves.

Together we can change the lives of many children.

Before you change your thinking, you have to change what goes into your mind.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.