People love being around those who serve them.

Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.

Winners hate losing more than changing while others hate changing more than losing.

The limiting factor on your success is not the size of the obstacles, but the size of your dream.

A big secret to life is when you learn that learning is just as entertaining as entertainment, but with long term benefits.

It's not the gifts you don't have that hold you back as much as the gifts you do have that you don't use.

Leaders begin with a different question than others. Replacing who can I blame with how am I responsible?

Doubts in your mind are a much greater roadblock to success than obstacles on the journey.

One person with commitment accomplishes more than a thousand with an opinion.

The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.

If you fill your head with positive thoughts, there won't be any room left for negative ones.

The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so.

I give myself sometimes admirable advice but I am incapable of taking it.

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.

Some might say we lose ourselves in a good book. In truth, we find ourselves.

Men are very easy- You treat them well, and they behave right. You don't treat them well, and they don't behave right.

Practical dreamers have always been and always will be the pattern-makers of civilization.

Because I want to have my arm in good shape, I need to have my legs in good shape. Without a leg, there is no arm.

An educated person must learn to act justly, beginning, first of all, with his thoughts, then later in his deeds. That is what it means to be educated.

Consciously cultivate the ordinary.