We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitude and expectations. If we feel that our environment could stand some improvement, we can bring about that change for the better by improving our attitude. The world plays no favorites. It's impersonal. It doesn't care who succeeds and who fails. Nor does it care if we change. Our attitude toward life doesn't affect the world and the people in it nearly as much as it affects us.

We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.

Every one of us is the sum total of his own thoughts

That's the secret: be interesting. If you can't be interesting, shut up. There's nothing wrong with silence.

The only thing about a man that is a man is his mind.

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.