Advancement only come with habitually doing more than you are asked

Success in any endeavor does not happen by accident. Rather, it’s the result of deliberate decisions, conscious effort, and immense persistence...all directed at specific goals.

If you make a commitment, honor it. If you make a promise, keep it. If you set a goal, achieve it.

Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

The magic behind every outstanding performance is always found in the smallest of details.

It's simply not enough to just show up and do your work. Superior performance is not, never has been, nor will it ever be, the by-product of ordinary efforts.

Your job is not done when you have determined your goal. You must also plan for and determine how it is to be accomplished. Goals and plans are meaningless if they cannot be executed successfully!

Can you imagine what you could do, if you did all that you can?

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.

Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past.

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.

Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?

You always have to prepare for the obstacles that are going to come. Consequently, when they do come, it doesn't affect you mentally near as much as when you're unprepared for them.

Living the abundant life is different than knowing about it. It's time to begin practicing the life we were made for.

Words express only the feelings we know already.

At the age of 9, I read David Copperfield by Dickens. At 14, I read War and Peace by Tolstoy. They're both books I have reread regularly since.

Sure,” she said, and hugged the laptop bag closer. “What could go wrong?” Michael’s eyes flashed to meet hers in the rearview mirror. Besides everything, I mean,” she said.

I like acting in London-not least because it means I can go home after the show every day, rather than being on location making a film.

I'm not the first person to have said this - no writer ever feels that the execution of a book lives up to the idea for that book. The execution always falls short.