Instead of competing, all we have to do is create.

Don't take the attitude of waiting for people to be nice to you - be nice to them. Don't sit in front of a cold stove waiting for the heat. Put in the fuel. Act first.

Most very successful people can remember that their success was discovered and built out of adversity of some kind. It's not the problems that beset us-problems are surprisingly pretty much the same for millions of others-it's how we react to problems that determines not only our degree of growth and maturity but our future success-and, perhaps, much of our health.

Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.

If your attitude toward the world is good, you will obtain good results. If your attitude is excellent, excellent will your results.

These people get to the top because they have to, because inside them burns a dream too big, too ever present, too demanding to be denied.

Am I motivated by what I really want out of life - or am I mass-motivated?