Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.

Petty things become unimportant when people are impassioned about a purpose higher than self.

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

Creating and integrating an empowering personal mission statement is one of the most important investments we can make.

We all go through stages. Concerns about appearances, making good impressions, being popular, comparing yourself to others, having unbridled ambition, wanting to make money, striving to be recognized and noticed and trying to establish yourself, all fade as your responsibilities and character grow.

If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will.

The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.