“Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day.”

Welcome the challenges. Look for the opportunities in every situation to learn and grow in wisdom.

Success equals goals; all else is commentary.

Avoid negative people at all costs. They are the greatest destroyers of self-confidence and self-esteem.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

If you think a certain thought long enough and hard enough, it becomes a fixed belief and you will find yourself behaving on the outside in a manner consistent with it.

Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.

The best words for resolving a disagreement are, “I could be wrong; I often am.” It’s true.

Your most vauluable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Your choice of people to associate with, both personally and business-wise, is one of the most important choices you make. If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles.

Happiness and self-confidence come naturally when you feel yourself moving and progressing toward becoming the very best person you can possibly be.

Everybody does the things that top people do occasionally. Top people do these things all of the time.

One of the most important rules for success is this: Every great success is the result of hundreds and thousands of small efforts and accomplishments that no one sees or appreciates.

The more you like yourself, the better you do at everything you put your mind to.

Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve you have to win the war in your thinking first.

Imagine your ideal future. Visualize yourself as if your life were perfect in every aspect.

You just have to prove to yourself that you can go out there and be the best that you can be and not prove anything to anyone.

How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.

I’m a perfectionist. I’m pretty much insatiable. I feel there’s so many things I can improve on.

One cannot deny that in former times man’s life had been one of toil and hardship. It is correct to say, therefore, that modern civilization and the progress of science have greatly improved man’s life and have brought comfort and ease in their trail.

Doubt has evolved. From a ‘what if I can’t?’ To a ‘what if I can? And it doesn’t last?’

Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.

I think I can improve a lot. I think I can get a lot better. I feel like there’s much, much more I can do.

To hone my voice, I read everything, from books to cereal boxes, three times: once for fun, the second time to learn something new about the writing craft, and the third time was to improve that piece.