Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

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.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

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

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

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

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

The more you know the less you need to say.

Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.