"Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well."

"Let your library be a testimonial of your dedicated interest in accelerated personal development, that you will read whatever you have to read you will hear whatever you must hear and you will watch and see whatever you must see in order to make your life refined and worthwhile and achieve all your purpose."

"Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent."

"The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself."

"To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?"

"Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals."

"We all must suffer from one of two pains, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret."

"Labor gives birth to ideas."

"Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming."

"You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of."

"Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy."

"Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea."

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."

"The best motivation is self-motivation. the guy says, "I wish someone would come by and turn me on." What if they don't show up? You've got to have a better plan for your life."

"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."

"You have the power to mold your life how ever you want. To shape it and reshape it."

"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."

"Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace."

"Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is tragedy. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance creates lack. Ignorance creates disease. Ignorance will shorten your life. Ignorance will empty your life and leave you with the husks, nothing to account for. No, ignorance is not bliss. "

"Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals."

"Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me."

"Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live."

"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."

"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"

"There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important."

"Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said."

"You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with."

"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."

"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."

"Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs."

"Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors."

"A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better."

"If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse."

"What you don't know will hurt you. What you don't know will tragically affect your life. What you don't know will leave your life empty. What you don't know will leave you without a relationship. We're all affected by knowledge, whether we know or whether we don't know. That's why you've got to read the books."

"Make measurable progress in reasonable time."

"We must be happy with what we got when we are in pursuit of what we want."

"If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary."

"It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go."

"For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward."

"It isn't what the book costs. It's what it will cost you if you don't read it."

"Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well."

"Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it."

"If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us."

"Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins."

"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."

"Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through."

"Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day."

"Big achievements come one small advantage at a time, one step at a time, one day at time."

"Wherever you are, be there! Be there to absorb it. Take a picture if you can. Take pictures in your mind; let your soul and heart take pictures. Get it, capture it, absorb it. And don't be casual in getting it. Casualness leads to casualties."

"Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process."