If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will. You are a disciple, a follower, of your own deep values and their source. And you have the will, the integrity, to subordinate your feelings, your impulses, your moods to those values.

We accomplish all that we do through delegation - either to time or to other people.

What you see often depends on what you are looking for.

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.

Be sure that, as you scramble up the ladder of success, it is leaning against the right building.

Proactive people carry their own weather with them.

People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived.' They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates, and society.