People who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary to get the job done.

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.

Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings.How diligently they read them!Here they find their law and profits, their judges and chronicles, their epistles and revelations.

Passion fuels dreams. Commitment fuels action. Get clear about what you want to do and why you want to do it. Take action.Your time is now.

It was the success of 'Bend it Like Beckham' which got my name out there. 'A Mighty Heart' also helped.

I believe in invisible; I do not believe in visible.

The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband, is unworthy of the name of wife.

Labor with what zeal we will, Something still remains undone, Something uncompleted still Waits the rising of the sun.

To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.

I have friends in Utah who care about me as a person, not for what I am. They'll call to see how my heart is, how my blood pressure is. That's important to me.

Forecasts are difficult to make-particularly those about the future.

Wit, after all, is a mighty tart, pungent ingredient, and much too acid for some stomachs; but honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting.