“When you make a commitment to yourself, do so with the clear understanding that you’re pledging your integrity.”

To achieve goals you’ve never achieved before, you need to start doing things you’ve never done before.

Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?

We see the world, not as it is, but as we are – or, as we are conditioned to see it.

You can buy a person’s hands but you can’t buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.

It doesn’t really matter how fast you’re going if you’re heading in the wrong direction.

The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions.

I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.

Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them.

You have to water the flowers you want to grow.

We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.

Always surround yourself with people who are even more talented and competent than you.

The deepest hunger of [a child’s] human heart is to be understood, for understanding implicitly affirms, validates, recognizes and appreciates the intrinsic worth of another.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.

There are three constants in life, change, choice and principles.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.

No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.

Social media, to me, is like a marriage. You have to foster it and take care of it and commit to it. And you have to understand your partner.

Commitment doesn’t guarantee success, but lack of commitment guarantees you’ll fall far short of your potential.

Campaign promises are – by long democratic tradition – the least binding form of human commitment.

It is the fool who always rushes to take sides. Do not commit to any side or cause by yourself. By maintaining your independence, you become the master of others — playing people against one another, making them pursue you.

When you’re surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible.

Being a true bad ass has no weight or gender requirement – just 100% commitment to greatness.