If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn’t show yet.

Enlightenment writer and philosopher Voltaire likened life to a game of cards. Players must accept the cards dealt to them. However, once they have those cards in hand, they alone choose how they will play them. They decide what risks and actions to take.

To reach your potential you must grow. And to grow, you must be highly intentional about it.

People of poor character tend to blame their choices on circumstances. Ethical people make good choices regardless of circumstances. If they make enough good choices, they begin to create better conditions for themselves.

As long as a person doesn't know what he doesn't know, he doesn't grow

I may not be able to change the world I see around me, but I can change the way I see the world within me.

Even if you've had a negative effect on others in the past, you can turn that around and make your impact a positive one.