“Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.”

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.

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future,and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

Becoming the best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand your identity.

It’s hard to change your habits if you never change the underlying beliefs that led to your past behavior. You have a new goal and a new plan, but you haven’t changed who you are.

In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our aims: the improvement of mankind.

The challenges in our lives are there to STRENGTHEN our CONVICTIONS. They are NOT there to run us over.

I was never crippled until I lost hope.

Again, I see no reason why the belief that we are insignificant or fortuitous should lessen our faith.

I think I ended up being the scarlet woman partly because of my rather puritannical upbringing and beliefs. I always chose to think I was in love and that love was synonymous with marriage.

That said, your values will not always be the object of public admiration. In fact, the more you live by your beliefs, the more you will endure the censure of the world.