The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.

People and organizations don't grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses

You can't have the fruits without the roots. It's the principle of sequencing: Private Victories proceed Public Victories. Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.

Visualising something organises one's ability to accomplish it.

We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it.