A goal is a planned event

A goal is a planned conflict with the status quo.

You cannot motivate anyone but yourself. To enhance or cause action in another person, you must create an atmosphere around them wherein they will want to motivate themselves.

To reach any significant goal, you must leave your comfort zone.

Time management is only a set of skills and tools to help us more efficiently control the eventsour our lives.

Charity is the pure love of Christ. Let's bring it down for us lay folk to understand. Selflessness, patience. . . . a great definition. . . Charity: The ability to love the sinner and hate the sin.

Money is only a byproduct of being engaged in a worthy cause.

When you cross that chasm so that what you believe to be true merges into what is actually true, you have earned the right to inner peace.

How we choose to deal with pain is ultimately the measure of who we are and of the success we have in closing our gaps.

Your governing values should be important enough to you that you will invest your time, resources, and energy in making them a fundamental part of your life.

Character, simply stated, is doing what you say you’re going to do.

It is a rule of leading people, Gideon. You may be confused, or afraid, or overwhelmed, or all three—those who depend on you must never see it.

Soul mates don’t finally meet somewhere at a certain place at a certain time, they’re in each other, all along.

No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.

Some people are ok with doing nothing all day after they retire, but then some people if they had nothing to do would go mad and start banging their heads against a wall. .

We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.

Somewhere, there, is an analogy, in a small way, if you have the patience for it. But I guess it isn't a very good anecdote. I'm better at animal stories.

When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough.

If you get up on stage and brag, I don't think that's very brave. It's braver to get up and take your clothes off. And I do that every night.

When you've burned the bridges behind you, don't go starting a fire on the one in front of you.

Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.