“Decide how much you want to be earning one year, five years and ten years from today. What will you have to do to achieve these amounts.”

It’s the risk takers that move the human race forward.

All your hopes, dreams, goals and aspirations are amenable to hard work.

Success comes to those who are willing to launch toward their goals with no guarantees of success – and persist when there is every reason to give up.

At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most of us start.

Accept that you are where you are and what you are because of your own choices and decisions.

The more you discipline yourself to use your time well, the happier you will feel and the better will be the quality of your life in every area.

There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.

The more you teach positive ideas to others, the better you learn them yourself.

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.

We have reached milestones that are far beyond what I expected.

You are not educated if all you have achieved is the study of ten books.

In 2002 the Yamaha was at more or less the same level as the Honda, better in some ways, worse in others. But in the winter of last year between 2002 and 2003, Honda made a big step forward and it seemed as if Yamaha couldn’t quite match that improvement.

I love playing for my country, getting the support. Especially for the kids and everybody, showing my example of what I can achieve so early. And maybe they can achieve it, too, just to get that in their minds.

Stop criticizing yourself over the things you haven’t done, start celebrating the things you have achieved.

Beauty is the enemy . We try to conquer not feeling beautiful all our lives. It’s a battle that can’t be won. There’s no definition of beauty. The only way to achieve beauty is to feel it from inside without breaking down into individual physical attributes.

This moment! – this here-now – is forgotten when you start thinking in terms of achieving something. When the achieving mind arises, you lose contact with the paradise you are in.

We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.