Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

Every great accomplishment of mankind has been preceded by an extended period, often over many years, of concentrated effort.

Everything that's really worthwhile in life came to us free - our minds, our souls, our bodies, our hopes, our dreams, our ambitions, our intelligence, our love of family and children and friends and country.

Failures . . . believe that their lives are shaped by circumstances ... by things that happen to them ... by exterior forces.

If you spend an extra hour each day of study in your chosen field you will be a national expert in that field in five years or less.

It is in the expectations of happiness that much of happiness itself is found. And it takes courage to expect happiness.

It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of people ever really get the word about life, about living abundantly and successfully. Success in the important departments of life seldom comes naturally, no more naturally than success at anything - a musical instrument, sports, fly-fishing , tennis, golf, business, marriage, parenthood. But for some reason most people wait passively for success to come to them ..., living as other people are living in the unspoken, tacit assumption that other people know how to live successfully.