Highly effective people tend to be proactive. They decide to find a better job or to have better health, rather than of responding to whatever curves life throws at them.

All broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements

Taking initiative is a form of self-empowerment.

It's not what people do to us that hurts us. In the most fundamental sense, it is our chosen response to what they do to us that hurts us.

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

Most learning is social, or what I call the cultural DNA. Everyone knows that word of mouth advertising is the best advertising. That's social learning.

It's better to be trusted than to be liked.