Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster, double your rate of failure.

The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve.

The future belongs to the competent

To be successful, you need to really work hard. And every study in the last 50 years says that successful people say, "I am not smarter than anybody else. I just want to work harder and longer."

Self-discipline is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you, and makes everything else possible. With self-discipline, the average person can rise as far and as fast as his talents and intelligence can take him. But without self-discipline, a person with every blessing of background, education and opportunity will seldom rise above mediocrity.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

The clearer you are about the consequences of your actions and the more intensely you desire to enjoy the consequences that your behaviors may lead to, the more motivated you will be.