When you choose to be pleasant and positive in the way you treat others, you have also chosen, in most cases, how you are going to be treated by others.

Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.

F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours.

There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.

You can, and you will. If you’re going to carry any belief, carry one that empowers you. Believe in your unlimited potential.

A good sweat with the blood pounding through my body makes me feel alive revitalized. I gain a sense of mastery and assurance. I feel good about myself. Then I can feel good about others.

The forest fires are the worst disaster in California since I was elected.

When one thing takes another away, what do we call that?” she asked my class. “Homicide!” I called out

This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.

We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.

If you want to show a picture, just show it - don't spend too much time arranging it.

The churches must realize that when they take a position on a political event that they must accept the rules of the game.

I reckon silence more profitable than speech, for? in the words of the Preacher, 'The words of wise men are heard in quiet' (Eccles. 9:17).

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