“Your rewards in life are in direct proportion to your service”

You can predict a persons future and divine his bank balance if you know two things: the books he reads, the people he associates with.

All you have to do is hold your goal before you and everything else will take care of itself.

Success is not the result of making money; earning money is the result of success — and success is in direct proportion to our service.

If your attitude toward the world is good, you will obtain good results. If your attitude is excellent, excellent will your results.

Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

Problems are challenges to creative minds. Without problems, there would be little reason to think at all.

We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Don’t take the attitude of waiting for people to be nice to you – be nice to them. Don’t sit in front of a cold stove waiting for the heat. Put in the fuel. Act first.

Successful people are not people without problems. They are people who have learned to solve their problems.

Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.

To become successful and outstanding at something, we don’t have to come up with something new; we need only find ways of doing it better.

Ask yourself every morning, ‘how can I increase my service today?’

Most people think they want more money than they really do, and they settle for a lot less than they could get.

Control your thoughts. Decide about that which you will think and concentrate upon. You are in charge of your life to the degree you take charge of your thoughts.

If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.

A person who does not read is no better than one cannot read.

Live your life with passion, with some drive, decide that you are going to push yourself.

See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

That’s the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn’t easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Even if you’re happy with the life you’ve chosen, you’re still curious about the other options.

So long as you can sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain.

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.