There is one thing that gets you out of bed in the morning, and that is discipline. Because your dreams and your goals are not there waking up for you in the morning.

If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

If a man can… make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

I knew I wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist – let’s not be fools – but I wasn’t going to be a bum.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

If you’ve got a plan, it’s not just like a pipe dream. You have a step-by-step list of things to do to get to your goal.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

We’re the only animal that wakes up and doesn’t stretch.

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

Of course, I do everything for money.

Being humble matters.

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

To lead people walk behind them.

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.

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

One of the best mental disciplines for people to implement is simply putting together a schedule or a task list and actually executing it. Write the list or the schedule the night before, and then do what you said you would do. Life becomes much better when you do that.

I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people’s actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

People want you to fail.

I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

I know that I came into the world with what I call ‚big dharma‘ – with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

People’s blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

I couldn’t ever go back home without being something. I probably would never have gone back home. That was definitely a big motivation. To get back home, and not empty-handed.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

I’m interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.