Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself.

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible.

Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.

Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.

We, whoever we are, must have a daily goal in our lives, no matter how small or great, to make that day mean something.

A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.

Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively.

The biggest secret of self-esteem is this: Begin to appreciate other people more; show respect for any human being merely because he is a child of God and therefore a thing of value.

We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

For surely a king is first a man. And so it must follow that a king does as all men do: the best he can.

Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is

We've reached the end of incrementalism. Only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy.

It’s not the upfront capital that kills you, it’s the operations and maintenance on the back end.

The world is looking to us for leadership. We have provided it in the past; the main reason why anti-American feelings are so strong in the world today is that we are not providing it in the present.

None of us knows how long he shall live or when his time will come. But soon, all that will be left of our brief lives is the pride our children feel when they speak our names.

It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.

That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.

If you're in the position to help someone and you do it, it's very rewarding.

Grief is itself a medicine.