Optimism boosts your energy and focuses your sights on reaching your goals, rather than wallowing in your setbacks.

Never follow the crowd in what you do; the crowd has never produced anything of lasting quality, value or beauty.

Self-esteem is felt even though you may not have done anything yet, but just feel the capability for it.

A dream is what you would like your life to become. A goal is what you are truly willing to do to achieve what you really want.

Success always has a price; success, with integrity, is the real bottom line.

Attitude is the criterion for success. But you can't buy an attitude for a million dollars. Attitudes are not for sale. ...Your attitude towards your potential is either the key to or the lock in the door of personal fulfillment.

Time changes everything, but with patience we can keep our desires relatively constant. If we can just hang on long enough, time will eventually create for us the conditions in which we can succeed.