1.
Affirmation without
discipline is the beginning of delusion.
2.
Books are what you step
on to take you to a higher shelf. The higher your stack of books, the higher
the shelf you can reach. Want to reach higher? Stack some more books under your
feet! Reading is what brings us to new knowledge. It opens new doors. It helps
us understand mysteries. It lets us hear from successful people. Reading
is what takes us down the road in our journey. Everything you need for a better
future and success has already been written.
3.
Discipline is the bridge
between goals and accomplishment
4.
Don’t join an easy crowd;
you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.
5.
Don’t mistake movement
for achievement. It’s easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is:
Busy doing what?
6.
Don’t set your goals too
low. If you don’t need much, you won’t become much.
7.
Don’t wish it were
easier, wish you were better.
8.
Don’t let your learning
lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action.
9.
Don’t read a book and be
a follower; read a book and be a student.
10.
Don’t wish for less
problems; wish for more skills.
11.
Don’t wish it was easier
wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don’t
wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom.
12.
Don’t wish it were
easier. Wish you were better.
13.
Each of us has two
distinct choices to make about what we will do with our lives. The first choice
we can make is to be less than we have the capacity to be. To earn less. To have
less. To read less and think less. To try less and discipline ourselves less.
These are the choices that lead to an empty life. These are the choices that,
once made, lead to a life of constant apprehension instead of a life of
wondrous anticipation And the second choice? To do it all! To become all that
we can possibly be. To read every book that we possibly can. To earn as much as
we possibly can. To give and share as much as we possibly can. To strive and
produce and accomplish as much as we possibly can.
14.
Economic disaster begins
with a philosophy of doing less and wanting more.
15.
Either you run the day or
the day runs you..
16.
Everything you need for
better future and success has already been written. And guess
what? All you have to do is go to the library.
17.
Excuses are the nails
used to build a house of failure.
18.
Failure is not a single,
cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors
in judgement, repeated every day.
19.
Finding is reserved for
those that search.
20.
For what it will make of
you to achieve it.
21.
Formal education will
make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
22.
Get around people who
have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a
significant effect on your life long they have departed.
23.
Goals. There’s no telling
what you can do when you get inspired by them. There’s no telling what you can
do when you believe in them. There’s no telling what will happen when you act
upon them.
24.
Good people are found not
changed. Recently I read a headline that said, “We don’t teach people to be
nice. We simply hire nice people.” Wow! What a clever short cut.
25.
Happiness is not an
accident. Nor is it something you wish for. Happiness is something you design.
26.
Happiness is not by
chance, but by choice.
27.
Happiness is not
something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the
present.
28.
How sad to see a father
with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness.
29.
Humans have the
remarkable ability to get exactly what they must have. But there is a
difference between a “must” and a “want.”
30.
Humility is a virtue;
timidity is a disease
31.
I am a buyer of blank
books. Kids find it interesting that I would buy a blank book. They say,
“Twenty-Six dollars for a blank book! Why would you pay that?” The reason I pay
twenty-six dollars is to challenge myself to find something worth twenty-six
dollars to put in there. All my journals are private, but if you ever got hold
of one of them, you wouldn’t have to look very far to discover it is worth more
than twenty-six dollars.
32.
I find it fascinating
that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their
lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change.
33.
I will take care of me
for you, if you will take care of you for me.
34.
If someone is going down
the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is
education to turn him around.
35.
If you are not willing to
risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
36.
If you don’t design your
own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what
they have planned for you? Not much.
37.
If you don’t like how
things are, change it! You’re not a tree.
38.
If you just communicate,
you can get by. But if you communicate skillfully, you can work miracles.
39.
If you really want to do
something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.
40.
In America we
have the greatest chance for opportunity than anyone else in the past six and a
half thousand years. Never in recorded history have so many different gifts
from all over the world been deposited in one country.
41.
It doesn’t matter which
side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off.
You cannot make progress without making decisions.
42.
It isn’t what the book
costs. It’s what it will cost you if you don’t read it.
43.
It’s easy to carry the
past as a burden instead of a school. It’s easy to let it overwhelm you instead
of educate you.
44.
Its what you dont know
what will hurt you.
45.
Leadership is the
challenge to be something more than average.
46.
Learn how to be happy
with what you have while you pursue all that you want.
47.
Learn how to say no.
Don’t let your mouth overload your back.
48.
Learn how to separate the
majors and the minors. A lot of people don’t do well simply because they major
in minor things.
49.
Let others lead small
lives, but not you.. Let others argue over small things, but not you.. Let
others cry over small hurts, but not you.. Let others leave their future in
someone else’s hands, but not you.
50.
Life expects us to make a
reasonable amount of progress in a reasonable amount of time. That’s why they
make those second grade chairs so small.
51.
Make rest a necessity,
not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength.
52.
Managers help people see
themselves as they are; Leaders help people to see themselves better than they
are.
53.
Maturity is the ability
to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.
54.
Miss a meal if you have
to, but don’t miss a book.
55.
Motivation is what gets
you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
56.
My father taught me to
always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future.
57.
One of the best places to
start to turn your life around is by doing whatever appears on your mental “I
should” list.
58.
One of the greatest gifts
you can give to anyone is the gift of attention.
59.
Only by giving are you
able to receive more than you already have.
60.
Poor people have big
TV’s. Rich people have big libraries.
61.
Some people claim that it
is okay to read trashy novels because sometimes you can find something valuable
in them. You can also find a crust of bread in a garbage can, if you search
long enough, but there is a better way.
62.
Some things you have to
do every day. Eating seven apples on Saturday night instead of one a day just isn’t
going to get the job done
63.
Success is doing ordinary
things extraordinarily well.
64.
Success is nothing more
than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
65.
Success is nothing more
than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a
few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of
our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.
66.
Successful people have
libraries. The rest have big screen TVs.
67.
Take care of your body.
It’s the only place you have to live.
68.
The challenge of
leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but
not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but
not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.
69.
The difference between
where you are today and where you’ll be five years from now will be found in
the quality of books you’ve read.
70.
The few who do are the
envy of the many who only watch.
71.
The major reason for
setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of
you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
72.
The major value in life
is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. That is why I
wish to pay fair price for every value. If I have to pay for it or earn it,
that makes something of me. If I get it for free, that makes nothing of me.
73.
The more you know, the
less you need to say.
74.
The only thing worse than
not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last
ninety days and thinking that it doesn’t matter.
75.
The ultimate reason for
setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them.
76.
The walls we build around
us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
77.
The worst days of those
who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don’t.
78.
The worst thing one can
do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend
years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never
knowing.
79.
There are only three colors,
ten digits, and seven notes, it’s what we do with them that’s important.
80.
There are some things you
don’t have to know how it works – only that it works. While some people are
studying the roots, others are picking the fruit. It just depends on which end
of this you want to get in on.
81.
There are two types of
pain you will go through in life, the pain of discipline and the pain of
regret. Discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tonnes.
82.
Those who will not read
are no better off than those who cannot read.
83.
Time is more value than
money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.
84.
To become financially
independent you must turn part of your income into capital; turn capital into
enterprise; turn enterprise into profit; turn profit into investment; and turn
investment into financial independence.
85.
We can have more than
we’ve got because we can become more than we are.
86.
We don’t get paid for the
hour; we get paid for the value we bring to the hour.
87.
We get paid for bringing
value to the marketplace. It takes time… but we get paid for the value, not the
time.
88.
We must all suffer from
one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. Discipline
weights ounces–regret weighs tons.
89.
We must all wage an
intense, lifelong battle against the constant downward pull. If we relax, the
bugs and weeds of negativity will move into the garden and take away everything
of value.
90.
What is powerful is when
what you say is just the tip of the iceberg of what you know.
91.
Whatever good things we
build end up building us.
92.
When you know what you
want, and you want it bad enough, you’ll find a way to get it.
93.
Without a sense of
urgency, desire loses its value.
94.
Work harder on yourself
than you do on your job.
95.
You are the average of
the five people you spend the most time with.
96.
You cannot change your
destination overnight. You can change your direction.
97.
You must either modify
your dreams or magnify your skills.
98.
You must take personal
responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the season or the wind,
but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
99.
You want to set a goal
that is big enough that in the process of achieving it you become someone worth
becoming.
100.Your family and your love must be cultivated like
a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any
relationship flourishing and growing.
101.Your personal philosophy is the greatest
determining factor in how your life works out.
