Always aim high, going after things that will make a difference, rather than seeking the safe path of mediocrity.
Career success and wealth only happen when we consciously commit to them and plan accordingly.
If the things you're doing have quit working, stop doing them. Focus on what works. If you'll just quit what you've been doing, instead of doggedly doing it harder, you at least create an opportunity—some white space—to do something else.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
It is more valuable to look where you're going than to see where you've been.
Learn to say no to the good so you can say yes to the best.
Mount Everest, you beat me the first time, but I'll beat you the next time because you've grown all you are going to grow...and I'm still growing!
Never be so poor that you cannot afford to pay attention. By how we position ourselves, we can see the evidence of God everywhere, or nowhere.
No matter how cloudy it is when the plane takes off, above the clouds the sun always shines. Look up! It's not the "out look" but the "up look" that counts.
People with momentum all share one trait: they attract criticism. How you respond to that criticism will determine the rate of your momentum.
The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one...The more active and swift the latter is the further he will go astray.
Regret looks back. Worry looks around. Vision looks up. Life can be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.
The more you look backward, the less you'll see what's ahead for you.
The only way to eliminate criticism is to do nothing and be nothing.
What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.