A work well begun is half ended.
Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
Achievement is the knowledge that you have worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Although I may encounter obstacles, I no longer stumble over them. I can overcome them, or I can choose a different path to follow.
Appreciate and develop the art of compromise in your lifestyle. Keep true to your goals and values, but give yourself some operating room. Understand that you often have to work a long time to achieve your goals, and the steps to success are often small ones.
Be an action person. Do first things first and one thing at a time....and follow them through to a logical conclusion.
Be willing to make decisions. Don't fall victim to the "ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome." You must be willing to fire.
Believe that you possess significant reserves of health, energy, and endurance, and your belief will help create the fact.
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Blend persistence with experimentation. Stay with the goal, but don't beat your head against a stone wall. Try new approaches. EXPERIMENT.
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
Do it with love and it actually becomes a pleasure. Fight it and there's no worse drudgery.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
Exercise is a marathon, not a spring. Train yourself to go the distance.
Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark.
Goals: Work on the same principle as people who train horses. You start with low fences, easily achieved goals, and work up.
Greatness is not always succeeding, but in recovering from every failure.
Have a positive expectancy of reaching your goals, and bounce back quickly from temporary setbacks.
Humans always have fear of an unknown situation - this is normal. The important thing is what we do about it. If fear is permitted to become a paralyzing thing that interferes with proper action, then it is harmful. The best antidote for fear is to know all we can about the situation.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
If you ever lose your enthusiasm, watch your dogs play.
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot do that," then by all means - do that, and that voice will be silenced.
If your spirits are low, do something; if you have been doing something, do something different.
Keep your game face on. Operate with focused and channeled energy.
Learning is sequential....sit up....crawl....walk....run....sprint.
Limitations are merely opportunities to grow. I use them as stepping-stones.
Nature, time, and patience are the three great physicians.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Our personal resources are almost always far greater than we ever imagine them to be. Never ask, "CAN I do this?" Ask instead, "HOW can I do this?"
Put all excuses aside and remember this: You ARE capable.
Say to yourself, "If I keep working at this and want it badly enough - I can have it." It's called perseverance.
Set your goal high. You may not reach it, but you'll put on muscle climbing toward it.
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self-esteem is excellence, mastery of your work.
The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment, it is not in luck or chance, or in the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
There is always another chance....this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later win a little more.
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you're going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.
You don't really need advanced technology to excel. Shakespeare had no typewriter; Darwin no computer. And David decked Goliath without the help of Howard Cosell.
You will not die from hard work....you will pass out first...then you can rest. 