“You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.”

Learn how to say no. Don’t let your mouth overload your back.

Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.

Don’t wish it was easier wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

If you don’t change what you are doing today, all of your tomorrows will look like yesterday.

Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.

Don’t spend most of your time on the voices that don’t count. Tune out the shallow voices so that you will have more time to tune in the valuable ones.

Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune.

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

Don’t spend major time on minor things.

Don’t say, If I could, I would. Say, If I can, I will.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

I used to say, “I sure hope things will change.” Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change.

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

Take charge of your attitude. Don’t let someone else choose it for you.

I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.

The spirituality of wonder knows the world is charged with grace, that while sin and war, disease and death are terribly real, God’s loving presence and power in our midst are even more real.

If you’ve been full of error and defeat, be done with it. Say, “By God’s grace, I’m done with it,” and take charge of yourself like never before.”

It is only when you’re lying to yourself or hating some aspect of yourself that you’ll get an emotional charge from someone else’s behavior.

Love comes like it comes. You are not in charge.

When placed in command, take charge.