"By losing your goal, you have lost your way!!!" "Those who do not learn from history are bound to repeat it!" "Don't run away from your problems;Confront them with all your might; Put confidence within yourself;To overcome this mighty fight; Once you have overcome it Look within your heart; Find a new beginning and give your life a fresh start" "Life is a journey which is made interesting by where you start from and where you finish..." "Once you have found the formula to getting rich, it gets easier to get rich. If you never find the formula, getting rich always seems hard and staying poor seems natural." "Many times in life, you will meet people who are smarter, faster, richer, more powerful, and more gifted than you. Just because they have a head start on you does not mean you cannot win the race. If you will keep the faith in yourself, do the things that most people do not want to do, and keep making progress on a daily basis, the race of life will be yours." "Today is the word for winners and tomorrow is the word for losers." "The most life-destroying word of all is the word 'tomorrow'. The problem with the word 'tomorrow' is that i have never seen a 'tomorrow'. Tomorrows do not exist. Tomorrows only exist in the minds of dreamers and losers. People who put off till tomorrow find that the sins and bad habits of their past eventually catch up with them." "There is more to being rich than having a lot of money." "SIGHT is what you see with your EYES; VISION is what you see with your MIND." "Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow." "Start small and dream big." "Talk is cheap. Learn to listen with your eyes. Actions do speak louder than words. Watch what a person does more than listen to what they say." "To be a leader is to be awake and alert, to be dissatisfied at all times." "Your greatest expense in life is the money you do NOT make." "What is stupid is to pretend you are smart. When you pretend to be smart, you are at the height of stupidity." "Doing means learning. Learning means mistakes." "The real heroism of leadership involves having the courage to face reality -- and helping the people around you to face reality." "The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work." "Trend is your friend." "The enemy of a good decision is fear --- fear of failure, fear of humiliation, fear of making a mistake." "Leaders do the right things and managers do things right." "The 100:10:3:1 method of buying a property: analyze 100 properties, make offers on 10 of them, have 3 sellers say yes, and buy 1" "You have to kiss a lot of frogs in order to know which one is a prince." "Never ask an insurance salesperson if you should buy insurance." "The price of not kissing enough frogs: if you don't kiss enough frogs, you can wind up marrying a toad." "Some rules in real estate:" "1. look at more properties" "2. take your time. there is more than one good deal. too many people buy because they believe the deal they have found is the only deal in the world." "3. analyze the rental market as well as the prchase market." "4. talk to more than one real estate salesperson." "5. be careful of investing in condominiums." "6. if expenses are out of control, that also affets the future sales price of the property." "7. never buy expecting the price of the property to go up." "8. don't invest emotionally." "9. there should be something you can do to improve the property." "10. learn from your experience." "Debt does not necessarily make you poor. But a poor or middle-class person's context will." "Lazy people want to get rich quickly, and successful people want to get financially smart quickly and keep getting smarter." "Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives." "We all have good luck and bad luck. Unseccessful people live lives doing nothing, avoiding bad luck and also good luck. It's hard to have any kind of luck if you are doing nothing, paralyzed by fear. A successful person is one who takes action and takes the good with the bad, knowing that he or she can turn bad luck into good luck." "The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them." "Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started." "Don＊t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." "The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible." "A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing." "Freedom is the greatest when the ground rules are clear. Chalk out the playing field and say, Within those lines, make any decisions you need." "One of the best ways to get through a downturn is to have a firm understanding and belief that there's going to be an upturn." "The real challenge is not managing your time but maintaining your focus: If you get too wrapped up in all of the stuff coming at you, you lose your ability to respond appropriately and effectively. Remember, you're the one who creates speed, because you're the one who allows stuff to enter your life." "Time management was the key to personal freedom -- to greater self-discovery." "Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started. Everything that isn't where it should be is an open loop, an incomplete, a distraction that slows you down. Productivity is about completion." "Take inventory weekly -- to sort through all of the stuff that they haven't yet acted on. If you can get a clear picture of everything that you have to do, you'll be able to say, "Oh, this is what I have to do right now" -- and then take the next step in getting it done." "In order to get the task off of your mind, you need to decide on a course of action. The worst thing that you can do is to let things sit." "You can do anything -- but not everything. The universe is full of creative projects that are waiting to be done. So, if you really care about quality of life, if you want to relax, then don't focus on values. Just control your aspirations. That will simplify things. Learning to set boundaries is incredibly difficult for most people." "You can't do things faster until you learn how to slow down. How do you slow down? It's all about the dynamic of detachment. You have to back off and be quiet. Retreat from the task at hand, so that you can gain a new perspective on what you're doing. If you get too wrapped up in all of the stuff coming at you, you lose your ability to respond appropriately and effectively." "Here is a list of steps that you should work your way through every Friday afternoon." "1. Sort your loose papers. Gather all scraps of paper -- business cards, receipts, miscellaneous notes -- and put them into your in-basket to process." "2. Process your notes. Review journal entries, meeting notes, and miscellaneous scribblings. Turn them into appropriate action items, projects, and so on." "3. Review previous calendar data. Look through expired daily calendar pages for remaining action items, and move those items forward." "4. Download your data. Write down any new projects, action items, "waiting-for" items, and so on." "5. Review outcome lists. One by one, evaluate the status of each project, goal, and outcome." "6. Review "next action" lists. Check off all completed actions. Look for reminders of further action steps." "7. Review "pending" and "support" files. Browse through work-in-progress materials and update lists of new actions, completions, and "waiting-for" items." "8. Review "reminders" lists. Make sure that there isn't anything that you haven't done that you need to do. Also, make sure that there aren't any checklists that you need to review." "9. Review "someday" and "maybe" lists. Look for any projects that may have become active, and transfer them to your "projects" list. Delete any dead items." "10. Review "waiting-for" lists. Record appropriate follow-up actions. Check them off as you complete them." "11. Be creative and courageous. Add to your system any new, wonderful, harebrained, thought-provoking, risk-taking ideas that have occurred to you." "Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin." "That which you think today becomes which you are tomorrow. " "A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve." "Your life is an epic. Some people see themselves as victims, some as heroes." ※If you spend too much time working on your weaknesses, all you end up with is a lot of strong weaknesses.§ "You become what you affirm; positively affirm your greatness, genius and fullest potential." "Make bold moves, knowing that some will work and some won't. Or make no moves, which guarantees that you'll be an also-ran." "If you don't have audacious goals, your people will be status quo instead of status go." "Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others." "We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough." "My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure." "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." "My challenge is to work smarter rather than longer and to resist technology's seductive call to stay forever connected." "The 12 Bad Habits That Hold Good People Back:" "1. Never feeling good enough" "2. Seeing the world in black & white" "3. Doing too much, pushing too hard" "4. Avoiding conflict and any cost" "5. Running roughshod over the opposition" "6. Rebel looking for a cause" "7. Always swinging for the fence" "8. When fear is in the driver's seat" "9. Emotionally tone deaf" "10.When no job is good enough" "11.Lacking a sense of boundaries" "12.Losing the path" "Don't be afraid to zig when others zag. Stick to your business model." "Merely not being cowardly is not the same thing as being courageous." "Imagination is more important than knowledge." "Reactive emotions, such as anger and fear, undermine productivity." "If you get scared on the podium, you start following the orchestra. Musicians hate it when you do that." "Once you have a clear picture of your priorities---that is values, goals, and high leverage activities---organize around them." "Ask yourself these questions and answer them honestly: what do you want? and how will you know when you get it?" "Great minds have purposes, other have wishes." "You don't manage change. You help to create the conditions for it. You help people to do what they already want to do." "Once I got my freedom, I got bolder. As I got bolder, the more invaluable I became." "You become what you think about." "Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it." "Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today." "Aim for success not perfection... Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person." "This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything." "When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve." "The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck." "Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working 24 hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force." "Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission." "I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature." "Big goals get big results. No goals get no results or somebody else's results" "All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible." "You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ※failure§ is not the falling down, but the staying down." "When you believe you can-you can!" "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how." "He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king." "If you don't set goals for yourself, you are doomed to work to achieve the goals of someone else." "The word "try" is a cop out used by wimps to attempt to justify their lack of accomplishment." "Make no small plans for they have not the power to stir men＊s blood." "Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing." "Only in growth, reform and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found." "What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve." "The way we define the world reveals our character." "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." "All glory comes from daring to begin." "Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience." "Do not wait; the time will never be ＆just right＊. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along." "You must have courage to bet on your ideals, to take calculated risk, and act Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness." "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." "One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered." "When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes." "Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing." "Make no small plans for they have not the power to stir men＊s blood." "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." "Let us become the change we seek in this world." "The real voyage of discovery consists not in making new landscapes but in having new eyes." "The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done." "The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind." "You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do." "Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will." "Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will." "It's good to have money and the things money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things money can't buy." "When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself." "Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish." "Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems." "Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future." "Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you." "Better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one, than to have an opportunity and not be prepared." "Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out." "The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life and you must regret it." "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it, you will land among the stars." "Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power." "To be healthy, wealthy, happy and successful in any and all areas of your life you need to be aware that you need to think healthy, wealthy, happy and successful thoughts 24 hours a day and cancel all negative, destructive, fearful and unhappy thoughts. These two types of thought cannot coexist if you want to share in the abundance that surrounds us all." "Only those who risk going too far can possibly know how far one can go." "Few things are impossible to diligence and skill." "All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action." "A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer and attempting a task he cannot achieve." "To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you＊re not, pretend you are." "Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must use it, as it is given only once. Once wasted you cannot get it back." "Millionaires have a system of bolstering their belief in themselves, enhancing their courage, and ultimately increasing the odds of selecting investments that bear fruit." "Successful people know how to defeat fear and worry, and one of the first ways they do this is by calling on their inner self-confidence and belief in their own abilities." "The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly." "The secret of success is constancy of purpose." "The secret of success is constancy of purpose." "A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn." "The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind." "Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, Certainly I can! - and get busy and find out how to do it." "Most misfortunes are the result of misused time." "There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day. " "If you simply take up the attitude of defending a mistake, there will be no hope of improvement. There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home." "In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action." "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals." "It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. " "Vision doesn't usually come like a lightening bolt. Rather, it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recogize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others." "A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve." "Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity." "Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination." "Progress in every age results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done." "It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities." "In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins- not through strength but by perseverance." "People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." "We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who hope that their dreams will come true." "Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results." "Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it＊s only kept a secret from the person who fails." "Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." "There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning." "Whoever is happy will make others happy too. He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery." "Most misfortunes are the results of misused time." "High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation." "Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can＊t build on it; it＊s only for wallowing in." "When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take 每 choose the bolder." "Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change." "To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world." "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." "Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible." "The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials." "There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live." "Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was." "In each of us are places where we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them." "Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there." "When life＊s problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate." "I＊ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened." "Thus to be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great." "You, too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination." "Every winner has scars." "In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it." "Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared." "Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting." "Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs." "Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse." "Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It＊s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn＊t at all. You can be discouraged by failure 每每 or you can learn from it, So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that＊s where you will find success." "The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled." "In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility." "Creative ideas reside in people＊s minds but are trapped by fear or rejection. Create a judgment-free environment and you＊ll unleash a torrent of creativity." "Accept everything about yourself-I mean everything. You are you and that is the beginning and the end-no apologies, no regrets." "Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away." "We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes." "Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan, 'Press on,' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." "Without discipline, there's no life at all." "Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage that counts." "A good plan today is better than a great plan tomorrow." "Never continue in a job you don＊t enjoy. If you＊re happy in what you＊re doing, you＊ll like yourself, you＊ll have inner peace. And if you have that along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined." "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." "Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success." "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." "On your tombstone, there will be two dates . . . the date you were born and the date you died. That little line between those two dates - that DASH - is Your Life! Your DASH matters to the people you love. It's your DASH that will be remembered." "Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway." "If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don＊t hoard it. Don＊t dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke." "I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen." "Everyone who＊s ever taken a shower has an idea. It＊s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference." "One＊s best success comes after his greatest disappointments." "Be a first每-rate version of yourself, not a second-rate version of someone else." "The first rule of success, and the one that supersedes all the others, is to have energy. It is important to know how to concentrate it, how to husband it, how to focus it on important things instead of frittering it away on trivia." "Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around." "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense." "If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance." "One person with a belief is equal to 99 who have only interests." "Character 每 the willingness to accept responsibility for one＊s own life 每 is the source from which self每-respect springs." "Yesterday's the past and tomorrow's the future. Today is a gift-- which is why they call it the present." "The one without dreams is the one without wings." "To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." "The key to why things change is the key to everything." "They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to worries, fears, troubles, and self-pity." "Purpose puts power and excitement in our life. It keeps us from looking at the little picture of "me" and causes us to look at the big picture of "we."" "The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices." "I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act, but I believe in a fate that falls on men unless they act." "Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it." "People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they do not know when to quit. Most people succeed because they are determined to." "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." "Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak and esteem to all." "Confidence....thrives only on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them, it cannot live." "The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight." "Every mistake that I made ,and we all make mistakes, came because I didn＊t take the time to get the facts, I didn＊t believe hard enough." "Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into." "There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning." "People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but how often they succeed." "Everybody thinks of changing humanity, but nobody thinks of changing himself." "If anything is worth trying at all, it＊s worth trying at least 10 times." "Don＊t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can＊t cross a chasm in two small jumps." "The secret of concentration is the secret of self每-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match to the challenge." "Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance." "Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. " "The way I see it, living your DASH is about two things: being and doing. How are you going to 'be' as a human being? And, what are you going to 'do' to contribute? " "If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain." "A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with 每 a man is what he makes himself." "The tree on the mountain takes whatever the weather brings. If it has any choice at all, it is in putting down roots as deeply as possible." "Dreams are extremely important. You can＊t do it unless you imagine it." "He is foolish to blame the sea who is shipwrecked twice." "A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further then a great idea that inspires no one." "If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances." "Goals are new, forward-moving objectives. They magnetize you towards them." "It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." "Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it." "Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand." "Nothing great has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe something inside them was superior to circumstances." "Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that." "You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization."