Make today worth remembering.
We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.
Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.
Now’s the best time you’ll ever have in life to get ahead!
Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
The great majority of people are wandering generalities rather than meaningful specifics. The fact is that you can’t hit a target that you can’t see. If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. You have to have goals.
You can succeed at almost anything for which you have unbridled enthusiasm.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.
The more people tell you it’s not possible, that it can’t be done, the more you should be absolutely determined to prove them wrong. Treat the word ‘impossible’ as nothing more than motivation.
Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.
If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.
I would say to do you and do you well. Dont try to be anyone else. Dont try to emulate what someone is doing. Play to your strengths. Even if you see someone onstage that is killing it, dont try to do what theyre doing. Just keep doing you.
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Vision remains vision until you focus, do the work, and bring it down to earth where it will do some good.
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
One does not always do the best there is. One does the best one can. – Catherine the Great
The world moves along at such a fast clip that we have little patience when things are slow, whether it’s the line at a supermarket or Internet access. We’ve become intolerant of those things that cannot be accelerated or skipped entirely. I can’t speed up the foundation work for a building, nor can I expect to play piano like Glenn Gould just because I want to.
Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to ‘gamble’ on an unknown.
When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you’re making a commitment and difference in that person’s life. Encouragement really does make a difference.
Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means ‘the love of wisdom.’
Time management is really a misnomer; the challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.
