“Everyone has obstacles to overcome, but those with great faith can conquer whatever stands in the way.”

Make people who work for you feel important. If you honor and serve them, they’ll honor and serve you.

There’s a big difference between a decisive manager and a tyrant.

Let people know that you appreciate their performance and they will respond by doing even better.

We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don’t know where you’re aiming, you don’t have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared.

The more enjoyment people derive from their work, the better they will produce.

Each of us wants to feel good about himself or herself, but to me it is just as important to make others feel the same way.

People will support that which they help to create.

Left unattended, problems only intensify.

Don’t limit yourself.

I do believe in encouraging a person to compete with herself… at Mary Kay Cosmetics, we’ve made that philosophy a company policy.

You can go as far as your mind lets you.

The first step is the hardest – making a commitment to yourself, for yourself.

Over the years, I have observed that nearly all high achievers know how to make good of those 1440 minutes in each day.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise – it makes you stretch.

You never really fail until you stop wanting.

A risk-taking environment starts at the top of a corporation. If the CEO doesn’t have this spirit, chances are you won’t find it anywhere else in the organization.

Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.

Let but faithful labourers be found, who will prove faithful to God, and there is no reason to fear that God will not prove faithful to them.

Live in faith and hope, though it be in darkness, for in this darkness God protects the soul. Cast your care upon God for you are His and He will not forget you. Do not think that He is leaving you alone, for that would be to wrong Him.

Success is remaining faithful to the process God has laid out for you.

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

We simply must have faith in each other, faith in our ability to govern ourselves, and faith in the future of this Nation. Restoring that faith and that confidence to America is now the most important task we face.

If God cared only about religious activities, then the Pharisees would have been heroes of the faith.

There is no obstacle too great, no challenge too difficult, if we have faith.