“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.”

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.

Luck is predictable; the harder you work, the luckier you get.

It’s quantity of time at home and quality of time at work that counts; don’t mix them up!

Make your life a masterpiece; imagine no limitations on what you can be, have or do

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What’s in it for me?

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

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

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

Lack of planning is the cause of most failures.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

With greater confidence in yourself and your abilities, you will set bigger goals, make bigger plans and commit yourself to achieving objectives that today you only dream about.

Many of the most successful men and women in the world never graduated from college. They attended the school of life instead.

Working at something you don’t care about is the very best way to waste your life.

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community. Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.

You will achieve your grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day.

In this world it is possible to achieve great material wealth, to live an opulent life. But a life built upon those things alone leaves a shallow legacy. In the end, we will be judged by other standards.

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.

Let’s learn from the wisdom of every mother and father who teaches their daughters there is no limit on how big she can dream and how much she can achieve.

In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.