There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements.

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.

I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others. What the future holds is firmly in God's hands, and I...

I just hope I can get another personal best. If I can do that, I'll be satisfied.

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.

Extract and expel implicit biases from your work life. Don't taint our visitors with your bias and views. Allow them to form their own conclusions where it's developmentally appropriate.

Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level do a good job because your reputation is your resume.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again though it contradict everything you said today.

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

One's self-image is very important because if that's in good shape then you can do anything or practically anything.

Only so far as a man believes strongly mightily can he act cheerfully or do anything worth doing.

The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there - you build yourself. Those are the high ones the thick ones the ones with no doors in.

Our entire life ... consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have as upon how much you can do without.

Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.

Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

Each of us has some unique capability waiting for realization. Every person is valuable in his own existence for himself alone ... each of us can bring to fruition these innate God-given abilities.

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time and all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures.

I never liked being a salesman. . . . Ever since I got my first two orders: Get out! and Stay out!

Let it be your business every day in the secrecy of the inner chamber to meet the holy God. You will be repaid for the trouble it may cost you. The reward will be sure and rich.

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day ... needs to reorganize his life.

There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.

Sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me.

Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.

To feel valued, to know even if only once in a while that you can do a job well, is an absolutely marvelous feeling.