Failures are divided into two classes-those who thought and never did, and
those who did and never thought.

Failures are divided into two classes-those who thought and never did, and
those who did and never thought.

Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top read more

Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top up s.

Skills are cheap; chemistry is expensive.

Skills are cheap; chemistry is expensive.

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does
bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does
bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the
obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited read more

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the
obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than
the intelligence quotient.

In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the
fourth human endowment-independent will-that really makes effective
self-management possible. It read more

In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the
fourth human endowment-independent will-that really makes effective
self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices
and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than
to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed
through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to
use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.

There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less
than the long-range risks and read more

There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less
than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, read more

to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.