“How you spend your time is far more important than all the material possessions you may own or positions you may attain.”

No one is born with self confidence. Self confidence is learned and earned with experience.

The greatest choice we have is to think before we act and then take action toward our life goals every day. Our problems result not only from our lack of action, but from our action without thought.

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.

Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.

Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.

The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.

I used to think that having many material things would increase one’s stock of happiness. I found that to be completely untrue. The trappings don’t make the man at all.

We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.

Reusing and recycling our materials is the most important thing we can do.

Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.

All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.