“Unsuccessful people get up whenever they feel like it and the first thing they do is watch television, read the paper, or check email. The rest of the day is pretty much 50% below maximum performance.”

Invest the first hour of the day, the ‘Golden Hour,’ in yourself.

Your brain has more than 100 billion cells, each connected to at least 20,000 other cells. The possible combinations are greater than the number of molecules in the known universe.

Never settle for anything less than your best.

Take a deep breath, relax and imagine yourself exactly as you wish to be.

If rejection destroys your self-esteem, you’re letting others hold you as an emotional hostage.

Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday.

Activity equals results. If you want to increase your success, increase your activity.

The world is full of people who are waiting for someone to come along and motivate them to be the kind of people they wish they could be. The problem is that no one is coming to the rescue.

Your ability to get along well with others will determine your happiness and success as much as any other factor.

Your persistence is your belief in yourself.

Intense, burning desire is the motivational force that enables you to overcome any obstacle and achieve almost any goal.

In the final analysis, you always get paid for your results.

The only thing that you can never have too much of is love.

The more you do for others without expectation of return, the more you’ll get back from the most unexpected sources.

You become what you think about most of the time.

You determine your future by the thoughts and pictures you hold in your mind today.

I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat; for they are the words of fools.

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.

The gap between enthusiasm and indifference is filled with failures. The great man is he that does not lose his child’s heart.

My failures have made me look at myself in a way I’ve never wanted to before.

Failure is not fatal. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. It should challenge us to new heights of accomplishments, not pull us to new depths of despair. From honest failure can come valuable experience.

Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.

It is not failure itself that holds you back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you.

Lack of planning is the cause of most failures.