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

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent and urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things.

If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.

Interdependency follows independence.

The key to motivation is motive.