Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be a part of the solution, not the problem.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.

Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.

There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill-natured.

Most people, even among those who know Shakespeare well and come into real contact with his mind, are inclined to isolate and exaggerate some one aspect of the tragic fact.

Positive wish: 'The sun will come out tomorrow.' Negative reality: 'Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something is done to clean it up.

Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.

That's a great golden nugget that's going in my tactical toolbox

I built a steel plant from the grassroots, so I learned all the nuts and bolts. When there was a problem, I would be able to guide them, though I am not a technical person.

You have to put your character to rest after x amount of years.

In some ways clarifying a vision is easy. A more difficult challenge comes in facing current reality.

You should always want your coach to be critical. It gives you an opportunity to learn and to overcome adversity