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!

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.

Advancement only come with habitually doing more than you are asked

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.

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.

Where thou art that is home.

Love for God is the farthest reach of all stations, the sun of the highest degrees, and there is no station after that of love, except its fruit and its consequences.

I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to.

Don't talk yourself into not being you.

Jem drew back from her, looking dazed. "By the Angel," he said. "Perhaps we do need a chaperon.

To entrust the government with the power of determining the education which our children receive is entrusting our servant with the power to be our master.

I do try hard to pick roles that differ. I love that about the job. I think the variety that's out there is to be taken advantage of and I enjoy that element of shape shifting with everything.

Look at Garry Kasparov. After he loses, invariably he wins the next game. He just kills the next guy. That's something that we have to learn to be able to do

Originally I considered myself a singer.

When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.