2. “Develop an attitude of gratitude and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.”
3. “All successful people—men and women—are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be—ideal in every respect—and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.”
4. “The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and respect yourself.”
5. “Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.”
6. “Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.”
7. “Look for the good in every person and every situation. You’ll almost always find it.”
8. “Whatever you believe, with conviction, becomes your reality.”
9. “The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve.”
10. “You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you; and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.”
11. “Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.”
12. “If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.”
13. “Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
14. “The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.”
15. “It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.”
16. “I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.”
17. “You have within you, right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.”
18. “The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.”
19. “Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.”
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20. “The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.”
21. “Excellence and perfection is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.”
22. “What one skill, if I developed and did it in an excellent fashion, would have the greatest positive impact on my career?”
23. “No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively, have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.”
24. “Dress for success. Image is very important. People judge you by the way you look on the outside.”
25. “If you do what other successful people do, you will enjoy the same results and rewards that they do. And if you don’t, you won’t.”
26. “Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.”
27. “ equals goals; all else is commentary.”
28. “Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books per year, and will guarantee your success.”
29. “The success you are enjoying today is the result of the price you have paid in the past.”
30. “Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.”
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31. “The starting point of great success in your life begins, in the simplest terms, when you discipline yourself to think and talk about only the things you want and refuse to think and talk about anything you don’t want.”
32. “The key to success is action.”
33. “If you expect to be successful, you will eventually be successful. If you expect to be happy and popular, you will be happy and popular. If you expect to be healthy and prosperous, that is what will happen.”
34. “The price of success must be paid in full, in advance.”
35. “The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.”
36. “Success in life is in direct proportion to what you do after you do what you are expected to do.”
37. “The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire, not things we fear.”
38. “Knowing how to deal with change effectively is a primary requirement for living successfully in perhaps the most exciting time in all of human history.”
39. “Throughout my career, I have discovered and rediscovered a simple truth. It is this—the ability to concentrate single-mindedly on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the key to great success, achievement, respect, status and happiness in life.”
40. “It is impossible to succeed without failing.”
41. “Perhaps the most important insight of all, with regard to success, is that to achieve greatly, you must become a different person.”
42. “There are 999 other success principles that I have found in my reading and experience; but without self-discipline, none of them work. With self-discipline, they all work.”
43. “Greater success and happiness are only possible for you when you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable during the process of creating a at a higher level of effectiveness.”
44. “There are, basically, three kinds of people—the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character.”
45. “There is more to life than just increasing its speed.”
46. “Your life today is the sum total result of your choices, decisions, and actions up to this point.”
47. “You perform as well as you believe yourself capable of performing. You are as effective as you believe yourself to be in whatever you do. You can never be better or different on the outside than you believe yourself to be on the inside.”
48. “Talent is overrated.”
49. “One of the marks of excellent people is that they never compare themselves with others. They only compare themselves with themselves, and with their past accomplishments, and future potential.”
50. “Invest three percent of your income in yourself in order to guarantee your future.”
51. “Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results.”
52. “Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.”
53. “You perform at your highest potential only when you are focusing on the most valuable use of your time. This is the key to personal and business success.”
54. “Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.”
55. “Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.”
56. “Make your life a masterpiece; imagine no limitations on what you can be, have, or do.”
57. “People who take a long view of their lives and careers always seem to make much better decisions about their time and activities than people who give very little thought to the future.”
58. “The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.”
59. “Life is like a combination lock; your job is to find the numbers in the right orders, so you can have anything you want.”
60. “The most valuable tasks you can do each day are often the hardest and most complex, but the payoff and rewards for completing these tasks efficiently can be tremendous.”
61. “The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well-meaning.”
62. “What is the most important and valuable work that you do, in any field or profession? It’s thinking!”
63. “You can’t hit a target you can’t see. You can’t accomplish wonderful things with your life if you have no idea of what they are. You must first become absolutely clear about what you want if you are serious about unlocking the extraordinary power that lies within you.”
64. “The law of increasing returns says that the more you focus on doing the few things that represent the most valuable use of your time, the better you become at those activities, and the less time it takes you to accomplish each one.”
65. “The world is full of people who are waiting for someone to come along and motivate them to be the kind of people they wish they could be. The problem is that no one is coming to the rescue.”
66. “If you have to eat a live at all, it doesn’t pay to sit and look at it for very long.”
67. “You have to put in many, many, that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.”
68. “At the end of the day, we are all guests in this world; we will move on eventually. However, while you are here, you can leave your mark by setting goals and putting your heart, soul, and body into them, and letting the outcome be the by-product of your focus. Let your concentration be on your craft and watch the unfold.”
69. “When you set more goals, try more things, engage in more activities, and explore more opportunities, your probabilities of success increase dramatically.”
70. “An average person with average talent, ambition, and education can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.”
71. “Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.”
72. “The bigger your goals and the clearer they are, the more excited you become about achieving them. The more you think about your goals, the greater becomes your inner drive and desire to accomplish them.”
73. “If you don’t set goals for yourself, you are doomed to achieve the goals of someone else.”
74. “This is a wonderful time to be alive. There have never been more possibilities and opportunities for you to achieve more of your goals than exist today.”
75. “You will in life, but you will never regret being too kind or too fair.”
76. “Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent.”
77. “Any goal can be achieved if you break it down into enough small parts.”
78. “A goal, however, is something distinctly different from a wish. It is clear, written, and specific. It can be quickly and easily described to another person. You can measure it, and you know when you have achieved it or not.”
79. “People with clear, written goals accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.”
80. “If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.”
81. “Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent return on energy!”
82. “A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.”
83. “An average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities and getting important tasks completed quickly will run circles around a genius who talks a lot and makes wonderful plans but gets very little done.”
84. “The better you think, the better decisions you make. The better decisions you make, the better actions you take. The better actions you take, the better results you get.”
85. “There’s only one direction you can coast.”
86. “You can get your time and your life under control only to the degree to which you discontinue lower-value activities.”
87. “When everything is laid out neatly and in sequence, you will feel much more like getting on with the job.”
88. “The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.”
89. “The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.”
90. “Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the high road to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.”
91. “Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.”
92. “Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.”
93. “One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that needs not to be done at all.”
94. “Your life only gets better when you get better.”
95. “The hardest part of any important task is getting started on it in the first place. Once you actually begin work on a valuable task, you seem to be naturally motivated to continue.”
96. “The biggest we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.”
97. “It’s impossible to remain angry or blame other people for problems in your life when you are saying, ‘I am responsible.’”
98. “Live your life in every way to earn and keep the respect of the people you respect.”
99. “Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’”
100. “Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you’ll ever have is your mind and what you put into it.”
101. “Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses.”
102. “The more you discipline yourself to use your time well, the happier you will feel, and the better will be the quality of your life in every area.”
103. “Act with purpose, courage, confidence, competence, and intelligence until these qualities lock into your subconscious mind.”
104. “The development of self-discipline is the high road that makes everything possible for you.”
105. “Keep yourself on track and focused on your most important responsibilities by asking yourself, over and over, ‘What is the most valuable use of my time right now? How can you apply this law immediately?’”
106. “Anytime you stop striving to get better, you’re bound to get worse.”
107. “Refuse to allow a weakness or a lack of ability in any area to hold you back. Everything is learnable. And what others have learned, you can learn as well.”
108. “You can create your own future by changing your behaviors. You can make new choices and decisions that are more consistent with the person you want to be and the things you want to accomplish with your life.”
109. “Changing habits that are no longer consistent with your higher purposes is one of the hardest things you’ll ever do, and one of the most essential to the quality of your life.”
110. “If it’s to be, it’s up to me!”
111. “The only way to overcome your fears is to do the thing you fear.”
112. “Remember, bad habits are easy to form, but hard to live with; good habits are hard to form, but easy to live with. Your job is to form good habits and make them your masters.”
113. “Your ability to think, plan, and work hard in the short term and to discipline yourself to do what is right and necessary before you do what is fun and easy is the key to creating a wonderful future for yourself.”
114. “The foundation of self-confidence—the basis of boldness and self-assertion—is a deep inner , based on living a life of perfect integrity, and disciplining yourself to live consistent with your highest values in every situation.”
115. “Any thought or action that you repeat over and over will eventually become a new habit.”
116. “The key to happiness, then, is to systematically eliminate, or at least minimize, the parts of your life that cause you negativity or stress of any kind.”
117. “You can never rise any higher than your of yourself. Since they are completely under your control, be sure that your expectations are consistent with what you want to see happen. Always expect the best of yourself.”
118. “Approach every difficulty as if it were sent to you at that moment, and in that way, to teach you something you need to learn so you can continue moving forward.”
119. “Continually upgrade your skills in your key result areas.”
120. “Remember, however good you are today, your knowledge and skills are becoming obsolete at a rapid rate.”
121. “The sad fact is that people are poor because they have not yet decided to be rich. People are overweight and unfit because they have not yet decided to be thin and fit. People are inefficient time wasters because they haven’t yet decided to be highly productive in everything they do.”
122. “If there is one thing I know, it is this—rich people are remarkably unremarkable.”
123. “Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.”
124. “Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster.”
125. “Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience, or interests.”
126. “Your most valuable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else.”
127. “To earn more, you must learn more.”
128. “If you can get yourself to read 30 minutes a day, you’re going to double your income every year.”
129. “You are where you are and what you are because of yourself. Everything you are today, or ever will be in the future, is up to you.”
130. “Everyone procrastinates. The difference between high performers and low performers is largely determined by what they choose to procrastinate on.”
131. “You can’t help the poor by becoming one of them.”
132. “It is not the material things you accomplish or acquire that matter so much as it is the quality of the person you must become to accomplish well above the average.”
133. “To be truly happy and fulfilled, you must be working toward accomplishing something that is bigger than yourself, and that makes a difference in the life or work of others.”
134. “When you allow yourself to begin to dream big dreams, creatively abandon the activities that are taking up too much of your time, and focus your inward energies on alleviating your main constraints, you start to feel an incredible sense of power and confidence.”
135. “The law of forced efficiency says that, ‘There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.’”
136. “Your decision to be, have, and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well.”
137. “Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care.”
138. “Imagine no limitations; decide what’s right and desirable before you decide what’s possible.”
139. “Never say anything about yourself you don’t want to come true.”
140. “Truthfulness is the main element of character.”
141. “The quality of your thinking is largely determined by the quantity of the information you have with which to work.”
142. “Think continually about what you want, not about the things you fear.”
143. “You become what you think about most of the time.”
144. “There is an old saying that, ‘By the yard it’s hard; but inch by inch, anything’s a cinch!’”
145. “Your thoughts, vividly imagined and repeated, charged with emotion, become your reality.”
146. “Refuse to complain about your problems. Keep them to yourself.”
147. “You are fully responsible for everything you are, everything you have, and everything you become.”
148. “Say no to anything that is not a high-value use of your time and your life.”
149. “Almost all stress, tension, anxiety, and frustration—both in life and in work—comes from doing one thing while you believe and value something completely different.”
150. “Your mind is designed in such a way that you cannot have an idea on the one hand without also having the ability to bring that idea into reality on the other.”
151. “The very existence of an idea in your conscious mind means that you have within you and around you the capacity to turn it into reality.”
152. “You can or you can make progress. You choose.”
153. “Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.”
154. “Ideas are a mode of transportation—a vehicle that you can use to take yourself from wherever you are to wherever you want to go.”
155. “You’ll always get out of life what you put in, and you control what you put in.”
156. “This is the process of systematic desensitization. By confronting your fear, and by repeatedly doing the thing you fear, the fear eventually disappears.”
157. “Practice ‘zero-based thinking’ in every part of your life.”
158. “Our greatest enemies are always our own doubts and fears. But there are no limits to what you can do, be, or have except for the limits you place on yourself.”
159. “Be a lifelong student. The more you learn, the more you earn; and the more self-confidence you will have.”
160. “The law of correspondence says your outer world is a mirror of your inner world. Your outer world corresponds to your inner world. Your outer world of your relationships—especially with your children and spouse—simply corresponds to how you feel about yourself—how you’re doing.”
161. “All change is from the inner to the outer. All change begins in the self-concept. You must become the person you want to be on the inside before you see the appearance of this person on the outside.”
162. “The greatest problem of human life is fear. It is fear that robs us of happiness. It is fear that causes us to settle for far less than we are capable of. It is fear that is the root cause of negative emotions, unhappiness, and problems in human relationships.”
163. “It is not failure itself that holds people back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you.”
164. “Make a decision today that, from now on, you are going to eliminate all the ‘if only’s’ from your life.”
165. “Your future largely depends on what you learn and practice from this moment onward.”
166. “The very act of accepting responsibility short-circuits and cancels out any negative emotions you may be experiencing.”
167. “No person or situation can make you feel anything—it is only the way you think about a situation that makes you feel the way you do.”