The only people capable of handling success are those who have learned to handle failures w/o taking their eyes off the prize.

Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.

Winners hate losing more than changing while others hate changing more than losing.

The limiting factor on your success is not the size of the obstacles, but the size of your dream.

A big secret to life is when you learn that learning is just as entertaining as entertainment, but with long term benefits.

It's not the gifts you don't have that hold you back as much as the gifts you do have that you don't use.

Leaders begin with a different question than others. Replacing who can I blame with how am I responsible?

Doubts in your mind are a much greater roadblock to success than obstacles on the journey.

One person with commitment accomplishes more than a thousand with an opinion.

The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.

If you fill your head with positive thoughts, there won't be any room left for negative ones.

He realized he needed strength, sustenance that couldn’t come from bread alone. He desperately needed God.

When people sleep, others stay awake to effect changes in the world. Every other person wakes up in the morning to a totally different world

No one can rightly call his garden his own unless he himself made it.

Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know.

I do today what people won't, so I achieve tomorrow what other people can't.

One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool

As the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can awaken to life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden gems, which prosperity or negligence would forever have hidden.

A million people can call the mountains a fiction, yet it need not trouble you as you stand atop them.

I drink to keep body and soul apart.