We usually overestimate what we think we can accomplish in one year-but we grossly underestimate what we can accomplish in a decade.

The past is a place you can learn from, not a place you want to live.

We're emotionally unfit. We expect things to be given to us that other generations had to earn. We think we're supposed to get homes with no money down and be supported by the government if we're unemployed.

Why not make cheerfulness, outrageousness, playfulness a new priority for yourself? Make feeling good your expectation. You don't have to have a reason to feel good - you're alive; you can feel good for no reason at all!

We want to avoid pain and have pleasure, so if our early attempts to achieve our dreams fail, we want to avoid the pain of future failure and rejection, so we stop trying and write it off with a broadbrush, "I'm just not driven enough, not well educated enough, not attractive enough, not smart enough."

No one ever achieved a goal by being interested in its achievement. One must be committed.

Losers react. Winners anticipate.