“President Abraham Lincoln said, “I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others . . . it is the only thing.”

“Nothing much happens without a dream. For something really great to happen, it takes a really great dream.”

“It’s better to have a great team with a weak dream than a great dream with a weak team. Your team must be the size of your dream.”

“If you combine your thoughts with the thoughts of others, you will come up with thoughts you’ve never had!”

“there is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.”

“Laughing is the quickest way to get up and get going again when you’ve been knocked down. Failing Forward” 

“If you are to become more sensitive, you must be willing to take a risk. Take the initiative to find a need and take action.”

“Successful people do daily what unsuccessful people do occasionally. They practice daily disciplines. They implement systems for their personal growth. They make it a habit to maintain a positive attitude

“La mayoría de personas emplean más tiempo planeando sus vacaciones de verano que planeando sus vidas”

“The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.”

“Several years ago Dr. Maxwell Maltz’s book, Psycho-Cybernetics, was one of the most popular books on the market. Dr. Maltz was a plastic surgeon who often took disfigured faces and made them more attractive. He observed that in every case, the patient’s self-image rose with his and her physical improvement. In addition to being a successful surgeon, Dr. Maltz was a great psychologist who understood human nature. A wealthy woman was greatly concerned about her son, and she came to Dr. Maltz for advice. She had hoped that the son would assume the family business following her husband’s death, but when the son came of age, he refused to assume that responsibility and chose to enter an entirely different field. She thought Dr. Maltz could help convince the boy that he was making a grave error. The doctor agreed to see him, and he probed into the reasons for the young man’s decision. The son explained, “I would have loved to take over the family business, but you don’t understand the relationship I had with my father. He was a driven man who came up the hard way. His objective was to teach me self-reliance, but he made a drastic mistake. He tried to teach me that principle in a negative way. He thought the best way to teach me self-reliance was to never encourage or praise me. He wanted me to be tough and independent. Every day we played catch in the yard. The object was for me to catch the ball ten straight times. I would catch that ball eight or nine times, but always on that tenth throw he would do everything possible to make me miss it. He would throw it on the ground or over my head but always so I had no chance of catching it.” The young man paused for a moment and then said, “He never let me catch the tenth ball—never! And I guess that’s why I have to get away from his business; I want to catch that tenth ball!”

“Your attitude, more than your aptitude, will determine your altitude.”

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”

“If you wouldn't follow yourself, why should anyone else?”