“If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.”

Everything you and I will ever have will come to us as the result of the way we use our minds, the one thing we possess that makes us different from all other creatures.

The picture you have of yourself, your self-esteem, will have a profound effect on the way you see the world and the way your world sees you.

Dream what you dare to dream. Go where you want to go. Be what you want to be.

When the days are too short, chances are you are living at your best.

A success is anyone who is doing deliberately a pre-determined job, because that’s what he decided to do deliberately. But only one out of twenty does that.

If you don’t have a good model for success, just look at what everybody else is doing and do the opposite.

You can predict a persons future and divine his bank balance if you know two things: the books he reads, the people he associates with.

All you have to do is hold your goal before you and everything else will take care of itself.

Your rewards in life are in direct proportion to your service

Success is not the result of making money; earning money is the result of success — and success is in direct proportion to our service.

If your attitude toward the world is good, you will obtain good results. If your attitude is excellent, excellent will your results.

Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

Problems are challenges to creative minds. Without problems, there would be little reason to think at all.

We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Don’t take the attitude of waiting for people to be nice to you – be nice to them. Don’t sit in front of a cold stove waiting for the heat. Put in the fuel. Act first.

Successful people are not people without problems. They are people who have learned to solve their problems.

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there – buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day.

You have to do stuff that average people don’t understand because those are the only good things.

Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.

You don’t have to have perfect wisdom to get very rich – just a bit better than average over a long period of time.

Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.

A jostling scrum of office buildings so mediocre that the only way you ever remember them is by the frustration they induce – like a basketball team standing shoulder to shoulder between you and the Mona Lisa.

My mom was a teacher – I have the greatest respect for the profession – we need great teachers – not poor or mediocre ones.

Be neither too remote nor too familiar.