Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life.

At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most of us start.

Every act of self-discipline increases your confidence, trust, and belief in yourself and your abilities.

I began writing books after speaking for several years and I realize that when you have a written book people think that you're smarter than you really are if I can joke. But it's interesting. People will buy your book and hire you without reading the book just because you have a book and you have a book on a subject that they think is of interest to themselves or e to their company.

Self-discipline is a great time-saver; it is the ability to make yourself work on only those things that are most important to you.

Almost all stress, tension, anxiety, and frustration, both in life and in work, comes from doing one thing while you believe and value something completely different.