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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.
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If you lose 50%, it takes 100% to get back to where you started-and that takes something you can never get back: time.
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You want to be a hero? Learn to create certainty in the face of fear.
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What's talked about is a dream, What's envisioned is exciting, What's planned become possible, What's scheduled is real.
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It's not about the goal. It's about becoming the type of person that can accomplish the goal.
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Pain is part of life. Suffering is an option.
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Having an identity that is specifically linked to your age or how you look would definitely set you up for pain because these things will change. If we have a broader sense of who we are, our identity never becomes threatened.
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Change your story, change your life. Divorce the story of limitation, and marry the story of the truth and everything changes.
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The quality of my life was the quality of my questions.
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Why wait to be memorable?
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The power of reading a great book is that you start thinking like the author. For those magical moments while you are immersed in the forests of Arden, you are William Shakespeare; while you are shipwrecked on Treasure Island, you are Robert Louis Stevenson; while you are communing with nature at Walden, you are Henry David Thoreau. You start to think like they think, feel like they feel, and use imagination as they would. Their references become your own, and you carry these with you long after you've turned the last page.
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Begin to live as though your prayers are already answered.
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If your life's worth living, it's worth recording.
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Often people talk about how they feel 'stuck' in a situation. You're never stuck! You may be a little frustrated, you may not have clear answers, but you're not stuck. The minute you represent the situation to yourself as being stuck, though, that's exactly how you'll feel. We must be very careful about the metaphors we allow ourselves to use.
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Success without happiness is failure.
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Don't be afraid of new ideas. Be afraid of old ideas. They keep you where you are and stop you from growing and moving forward. Concentrate on where you want to go, not on what you fear.
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If you are driven by certainty you can't grow. If you are driven by certainty if somebody messes with you, you can get very intense, even violent, depending upon the person's personality.
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The words that we attach to our experience become our experience.
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If you don’t trust, you will die if not physically then emotionally. To do anything in life, you must have faith.
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I'm always loading my brain with new ways of looking at something.
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Information without execution is poverty.
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Much more devastating than frustration is the emotion of disappointment.
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I always believe leaders are readers, so you've got to read 30 minutes a day of something that's going to inspire you.
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If you don't master money, it's going to master you.