Success comes from the ability to view each arising problem as an opportunity for self improvement.

If you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself, except in some short-term, psych-up, superficial way.

Each of us tends to think we see things as they are, that we are objective. But this is not the case. We see the world, not as it is, but as we are - or as we are conditioned to see it.

Begin with the end in mind.

In the absence of wake-up calls, many of us never really confront the critical issues of life.

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

If you don't set your goals based upon your Mission Statement, you may be climbing the ladder of success only to realize, when you get to the top, you're on the WRONG building.