“Most leaders would agree that they’d be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who execute always have the upper hand.”

People behave more on the basis of how they feel than how they think; unless there are good feelings between people, it is almost impossible to reason intelligently.

Live your life by a compass, not a clock.

Beginners are many; finishers are few.

Free your heart from hatred – forgive. Free your mind from worries – most never happen. Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less.

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present.

Being is seeing in the human dimension.

Begin with the end in mind.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.

Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.

We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.

You have two ears and one mouth. Use them accordingly.

Remember, saying whatever we want, whenever we want, however we want, is not freedom. Real freedom is not feeling the need to say these things.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

You’ll never find out what you can do, until you do all you can to find out.

Accept people and situations as they are in life and then take action. The moment you do this, you’ll see you are out of the confusion about anything in life.

With charity, money is purified. By service, our actions are purified. With music, our emotions are purified and with knowledge our intellect is purified.

Those born blind cannot see; similarly blind are those in the grip of lust. Proud men have no perception of evil; and those bent on acquiring riches see no sin in their actions.

Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.