Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them

Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.

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

Don't prioritize your schedule, schedule those priorities.

When our honor becomes greater than our moods, that is where transformation happens

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the “good.

If we overcome the pull and "get up and get at it," we will have won a victory. We have kept our own resolve. We can then move to other things, for by small means great things are accomplished. Thus, even this one small step is also in another sense a giant leap.