The magic behind every outstanding performance is always found in the smallest of details.

Success in any endeavor does not happen by accident. Rather, it’s the result of deliberate decisions, conscious effort, and immense persistence...all directed at specific goals.

If you make a commitment, honor it. If you make a promise, keep it. If you set a goal, achieve it.

Advancement only come with habitually doing more than you are asked

Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

It's simply not enough to just show up and do your work. Superior performance is not, never has been, nor will it ever be, the by-product of ordinary efforts.

Your job is not done when you have determined your goal. You must also plan for and determine how it is to be accomplished. Goals and plans are meaningless if they cannot be executed successfully!

Can you imagine what you could do, if you did all that you can?

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.

Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past.

Are we eager to know the ways of God?

Education is what you get from reading the small print

Together we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life's worst hazards and misfortune.

Creativity needs discipline and freedom.

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.

Do not wish evil for others. Do not speak ill of others. Do not obstruct anyones activities.

Those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces, desperately remained at home, inventing lovers on the phone.

In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.

I have an obsessive character. I manicure my nails at three in the morning because nobody else can do it the right way. Maybe that's the secret to my success.

Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.