"The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly."

"You are the most influential person you will talk to all day."

"When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you."

"To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it."

"Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity."

"Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means 'the love of wisdom.'"

"People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons."

"If you don't pay the price for success, you'll pay the price for failure."

"Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street."

"Every obnoxious act is a cry for help."

"How Many Marriages Would Be Better If the Husband and the Wife Clearly Understood That They're On the Same Side?"

"I read for the 'ah-ha's,' the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I want to put information in my mind that is going to be the most beneficial to me, my family and my fellow man - financially, morally, spiritually, and emotionally."

"You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations."

"Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."

"It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through."

"With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt."

"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will."

"Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust."

"If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere."

"It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference."

"I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles."

"Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success."

"When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there."

"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

"If you want to reach a goal, you must "see the reaching" in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal."

"You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people."

"Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker."

"Every choice you make has an end result."

"The only thing worse than training employees and losing them is to not train them and keep them."

"If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time."

"I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don't misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives."

"If people like you they'll listen to you, but if they trust you they'll do business with you."

"You can succeed at almost anything for which you have unbridled enthusiasm."

"You can't hit a target you cannot see, and you cannot see a target you do not have."

"Take one cup of love, two cups of loyalty, three cups of forgiveness, four quarts of faith and one barrel of laughter. Take love and loyalty and mix them thoroughly with faith; blend with tenderness, kindness and understanding. Add friendship and hope. Sprinkle abundantly with laughter. Bake it with sunshine. Wrap it regularly with lots of hugs. Serve generous helpings daily."

"Regardless of your lot in life, build something beautiful on it."

"Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there."

"We hear tears loudly on this side of Heaven. What we don't take time to contemplate are the even louder cheers on the other side of death's valley."

"Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days."

"Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running."

"The great majority of people are "wandering generalities rather than "meaningful specifics. The fact is that you can't bit a target that you can't see. If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. You have to have goals."

"Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage."

"It makes no difference where you go, there you are. And it makes no difference what you have, there's always more to want. Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have."

"A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person."

"Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes."

"To a child love is spelled T-I-M-E."

"You never know when one kind act, or one word of encouragement, can change a life forever."

"It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one."

"If you do not believe in your product or service enough to offer it to your own family and friends, then you should question the value of what you are selling."

"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily."