Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

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

Chase your passion, not your pension.

When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb.

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.

Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.

You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.

Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.

You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.