“Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.”

To listen with empathy is the most important human skill.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven’t paid the price to decide what is really important to them.

Whenever you experience stress of any kind, look into yourself and ask, In what way am I compromising my innermost values in this situation?

Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, “like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic”.

We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.

All broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements.

Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what’s urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

What you do has far greater impact than what you say.

It’s better to be humbled by the word than by the force of circumstances.

The problems in life come when we’re sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.

We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant.

It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

You can fan the flames with hate or stroke the fire with love, either way, it’s going to burn.

What do you do when the passion burns out? Start another fire.

Her kiss is a sun-burn that never heals.

I will wait for you like a star until I burn out too.

Stay with me in this inferno and together we’ll watch the world burn.

The forest fire burns even tree like sandalwood.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

Faith is like lighting the torch that passes from one person to the next. You can’t light the torch of another if yours isn’t burning.