A Winner's Blueprint for Achievement BELIEVE while others are doubting. PLAN while others are playing. STUDY while others are sleeping. DECIDE while others are delaying. PREPARE while others are daydreaming. BEGIN while others are procrastinating. WORK while others are wishing. SAVE while others are wasting. LISTEN while others are talking. SMILE while others are frowning. COMMEND while others are criticizing. PERSIST while others are quitting.

Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful

The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.

Each of us will one day be judged by our standard of life, not by our standard of living; by our measure of giving, not by our measure of wealth; by our simple goodness, not by our seeming greatness.

Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.

Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards.

Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.