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.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at
the top.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at
the top.

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells
they occupied.

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells
they occupied.

Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a
goal or goals which they really believe in, read more

Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a
goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit
themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make read more

Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans. Aim high in hope and work. Remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?