“When you work, work. When you play, play. Don’t mix the two.”

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

We must learn to help those who deserve it, not just those who need it. Life responds to deserve not need.

For things to change, you have to change. For things to get better, you have to get better. For things to improve, you have to improve. When you grow, everything in your life grows with you.

Take interest and even delight in doing the small things well.

Every day, stand guard at the door of your mind.

Economic disaster begins with a philosophy of doing less and wanting more.

Don’t let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

If you want to amend your errors, you must begin by amending your philosophy.

Be a student, not a follower. Take interest in what someone says, then debate it, ponder it, and consider it from all angles.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

Poor people spend their money and save what’s left, rich people save their money and spend what’s left.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Don’t set your goals too low. If you don’t need much, you won’t become much.

I’d like for people to remember me as a winner, because I ain’t never been nothin but a winner.

Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.

You can’t live off potential for the rest of your life. So get up, get out and go get you some!

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.

We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.

There are no limits on what you can achieve with your life, except the limits you accept in your mind

We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.

Some people take certain things and they try to forget what that pain felt like. I don’t. I take that same pain and I chase it every time I walk in a weight room.