“Habits are like submarines; they run silent and deep.”

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.

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.

The most important key to the permanent enhancement of self esteem is the practice of positive inner-talk.

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what’s happening out there. It’s how you take it that counts.

Always give more in service, than you receive in payment, and customers will beat a path to your door.

The most frequent cause of regret for what we have done is because its effects interfere with what we would do.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

People who feel like sunshine have walked more in the rain than basked in the sun.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

With work and life, your true depth can become an alien thing to you. Your gut feelings, your instincts become buried.

If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.

I want people to find their inner depth.