Failure is never a reason to stop trying. Indeed, failure provides another opportunity to enjoy success.

No matter what you do, you'll always have critics. This is true because some people can't bear to see others succeed.

Don't say, 'If things were different, I would do something.' Do something with them as they are. Facing your life as it is now and winning is the object.

Fight for time. It's the most valuable asset you have. Cut every corner. Save every moment. Be exact with yourself. Put yourself on a schedule. Wasting time is wasting ability. Carve out of every day that which spells success for tomorrow.

Prepare for your assignment. Wise people don't wait to be assigned. Rather they prepare to be assigned. When placement catches up with preparation you become unfit for the assignment. Strive to meet up with the demands of the task.

The greatest threat to being all you could be is satisfaction with who you are. What you could do is always endangered by what you have done. I believe that the enemy of best is good, and the strength of good is the norm.

Mediocrity may be defined as the region of our lives bounded on the north by compromise, on the south by indecision, on the east by past thinking, and on the west by a lack of vision. Mediocrity is the spirit of d average... the heartbeat of the ordinary.

Every spread is preceded by a stretch. Where you are not willing to stretch you'll never see a spread. The pain of stretch will usually precede the gains of spread. You must be willing to go through the pain to access the gain.