It is better to wear out than to rust out.
Mistakes are a part of life; you can't avoid them. All you can hope is that they won't be too expensive and that you don't make the same mistake twice.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Chinese proverb
It is difficult but not impossible to conduct strictly honest business. What is true is that honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.
The greatest revelation of our time is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just stand there.
IF YOU HAVE DIFFICULTY GETTING STARTED on a new or unfamiliar project, here are three psychological "tricks" that others have used to turn procrastination into action.
1. Create your own deadline. The pressure of a deadline helps some people build up the head of steam they need to get under way.
2. Make your intentions public. You're less likely to drag your feet when you know you've invited others to watch your progress.
3. Promise yourself a reward. This self-induced "carrot" approach has helped many salespeople to pile into work that they had been putting off. In considering these three approaches, keep your own inclinations in mind. Do you work best under pressure? Then establish a deadline and work to meet it. Do you work best when you have the enticement of some future gratification? Then use the "reward" approach. Do you like competition, do you like to bet on yourself? Then you're best suited for the "publicity" approach. But whatever you choose, you best get started!
The world only exists in your eyes-your conception of it. You can make it as big or as small as you want to.
Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose.
