When you want to encourage a greater sense of responsibility in others (and yourself), emphasize the anticipation of accomplishment, not the penalties for failure.

Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.

We are a product of the choices we make, not the circumstances that we face.

If you enter a race and finish last, you are a winner. The loser never entered the race.

Life's inevitable changes are like a compulsory roller-coaster ride. You can cower and shut your eyes tight, or you can exult in the thrills.

When you want to encourage a greater sense of responsibility in others (and yourself) emphasize the anticipation of accomplishment, not the penalties for failure.

Coasting only takes you downhill.

Challenges are inevitable, Defeat is optional.

You can t coast uphill.

Your life may not be 'picture perfect' but you have it in you to make it 'your best.' There's only one chance at life and you owe it to yourself to give it all you can.

If the reason of your sleeplessness is competition, then you will make a successful businessman.

Many people fail in their career, business and relationship, and others get stuck because of their inability to make quality decisions.

Spiraling demand for resources of which our world contains a finite supply is the great long-term threat posed by globalisation. That is why we need new technology to relieve it.

I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.

Five years from now, 10 years from now, there's going to be a huge Islamic population in the world, they're going to be nationalistic, they're going to be religious, and they're going to be militant.

If the plan is to see what happens, a team is guaranteed to succeed - at seeing what happens - but won't necessarily gain validated learning - If you cannot fail, you cannot learn.

Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the Beloved.

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

The critic does his utmost to blight genius in its infancy; that which rises in spite of him he will not see; and then he complains of the decline of literature.