“You are an uncut gemstone of priceless value. Cut and polish your potential with knowledge, skills and service and you will be in great demand throughout your life.”

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.

All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they’re not learning, they’re not growing and not moving toward excellence.

Don’t be a time manager, be a priority manager.

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

No matter how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you still have an entire today.

Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. Your inner drives will propel you further and faster than external perks.

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

The two greatest fear busters are knowledge and action.

Start edifying the flowers. Stop pointing out the weeds.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

Persistence means giving full concentration to whatever you are doing right now. … Persistence is success through trial, error, resetting your goals, and moving toward the target.

There never was a winner, who wasn’t a beginner.

Perseverance does not always mean sticking to the same thing forever. It means giving full concentration and effort to whatever you are doing right now.

If you concentrate on the present, you eliminate what happened yesterday and any apprehension of what may happen tomorrow.

The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we’ve already achieved them.

No gift can ever replace the value of being there in person.

You can’t make money on borrowed knowledge. If following Rakesh Jhunjhunwala was all it took to make money, a lot more people would be rich. It requires patience and you learn from mistakes.

The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”

Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

Religion is preserved by wealth; knowledge by diligent practice; a king by conciliatory words; and a home by a dutiful housewife.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

No one is so wrong as the man who knows all the answers.

They only are wise who know that they know nothing.