“Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.”

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.

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.

We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great.

Don’t loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don’t get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.

The challenges I have faced – among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother – are not uncommon, but neither have they kept me from uncommon achievements.

But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!

Taxation has its limitations as a method of achieving better economic distribution since for this purpose it is essentially remedial. We must also take a positive approach by finding new ways to spread ownership of future capital growth more broadly in our society.

I share all that I know with everyone. I am happy when others achieve.

On the field, you come into sync with your teammates and coaches and together you achieve something that you could never do on your own.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.