"Do not wait; the time will never be ''just right.'' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."
"Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date."
"A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come."
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do."
"More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives, that determine our destiny."
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear."
"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."
"The more I study the wealthy.. in an effort to learn how to help more people around the world become one of them.. I'm stunned by how many people are actually not rich."
"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."
"Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response."
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours."
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
"The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term is the indispensable prerequisite for success."
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
"A goal is not the same as a desire, and this is an important distinction to make. You can have a desire you don't intend to act on. But you can't have a goal you don't intend to act on."
"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."
"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creative."
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
"You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be."
"You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you."
"Far too many people have no idea of what they can do because all they have been told is what they can’t do. They don’t know what they want because they don’t know what’s available to them."
"Only the insecure strive for security."
"I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened."
"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."
"The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck."
"We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."
"The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses."
"The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing."
"I’ve never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation."
"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down."
"Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers."
"The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore."
"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in making new landscapes but in having new eyes."