Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.
And to change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
People are working harder than ever, but because they lack clarity and vision, they aren’t getting very far. They, in essence, are pushing a rope...with all of their might.
Life is a mission and not a career,
It is that a meaningful life is not a matter of speed or efficiency. It’s much more a matter of what you do and why you do it, than how fast you get it done.
As Marilyn Ferguson observed, No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument...
While we must learn from good examples and keep always in mind the bigger goal, we must compare ourselves only with ourselves. We can’t focus or base our happiness on another’s progress; we can focus...
When other people disagree with us, we immediately think something is wrong with them. But, as the demonstration shows, sincere, clearheaded people see things differently, each looking through the uni...
Whatever you can do, or dream, begin it! For boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
What one thing could you do in your personal and professional life that, if you did it on a regular basis, would make a tremendous positive difference in your life?
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answe...
Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience, and it doesn’t preclude the necessity to train and develop people so that their co...
To judge someone before understanding that person is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself. It intensifies personal insecurities, necessitating more judgment (prejudice) and less understandi...
Think about taking a trip on an airplane. Before taking off, the pilot has a very clear destination in mind, which hopefully coincides with yours, and a flight plan to get there. The plane takes off a...
There is no effectiveness without discipline, and there is no discipline without character.
The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don’t like to do, he observed. They don’t like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of th...
The person who doesn’t read is no better off than the person who can’t read.
The little-understood concept of interdependence appears to many to smack of dependence, and therefore, we find people, often for selfish reasons, leaving their marriages, abandoning their children, a...
The key to growth is to learn to make promises and to keep them. Self-denial is an essential element in overcoming all three temptations. One secret act of self-denial, one sacrifice of inclination to...
The children of blame are cynicism and hopelessness.