EVERY WINNER HAS SCARS

Life is made up of a series of experiences. Each one will make you stronger, even though it may be hard for you to realize it at the time.

Life is your classroom in which you’re being tested, tried, and passed. Always try to stay in the midst of life and activity. Don’t isolate yourself from the action. Your character develops itself in the stream of life.

The setbacks and hardships you endure actually help you in your march forward to success. The world was built to develop your character.

Life expects you to make progress in reasonable time. That’s why those elementary school chairs are so small.

YOU MUST DREAM BIG AND THINK BIG TO BE BIG
High expectation always precedes high achievement.

You’re as small as your controlling desires, or as great as your dominant aspirations.
Once your mind stretches to a new idea it never goes back to its original dimensions.
Think little goals and you can expect little achievement. Think big goals and you’ll win big success.
The first ingredient of your success is to dream a great dream.

LEADERSHIP IS ACTION NOT POSITION

All successful people became successful, because they gave some talent or ability in the service of others.

You can contribute in some way to others, no matter how small your talent. You too, can become successful.

No one achieves success without being of service.

Successful people don’t use others, other people use the successful, for above all success is of service.

Everyone has to be someone to someone to be anyone. Service is the essence of success.

TAKING A RISK IS OFTEN YOUR FIRST STEP TOWARD SUCCESS

Taking a risk is often your first necessary step toward success. If you don’t take some risks, you won’t get the chance to succeed. While you are trying, you are winning.

The law of averages is on your side. The more you try, the greater your chance of succeeding.

Never get discouraged. Every wrong attempt is another step forward. People that make no mistakes usually don’t make anything.

Make up your mind not merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand defeats.

Your mistakes are stepping stones to success and your installment payments to victory.

You can’t be a winner and be afraid to lose.

SELECT YOUR ENVIRONMENT WITH CARE
Your own positive energy will compel things to turn out the way you desire when you’re surrounded by positive people.

Your environment is your mental feeding ground from which the food that goes into your mind is extracted.

Choose your environment with care, one that is positive, one that lifts you up and gives you wings to soar.

Create favorable conditions through your association with others. Avoid people who belittle your ambition.

Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us.

It’s your friends that make your world.

LIFE IN ABUNDANCE COMES ONLY THROUGH GREAT LOVE

There is no force more potent than love. Take away love and your world is a tomb.

Your life echoes emptiness without love. With it, your life will vibrate with warmth and meaning. Even during hardship, love will shine through.

As you look back upon the events in your life you will find that the moments that stand out, the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.

If you have it, you don’t need to have anything else, and if you don’t have it, it doesn’t matter what else you have.

Therefore, search for love. Once you have learned to love, you will have learned to live.

Love is the most important ingredient to your success.

MAKING CHOICES IS YOUR GREATEST POWER
At any time you can decide to alter the course of your life.

No one can ever take that away from you.

You can do what you want to do and be who you want to be.

Nature is constantly at work around you. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives you love and hate, jealousy and reverence.

You have the power to choose which impulse you follow.

While your character is formed by your circumstances, your desires can shape those circumstances. The one thing over which you have absolute control are your own thoughts.

It is this that puts you in a position to control your own destiny.

Your greatest power is the power to choose.

YOU WIN, WHEN YOU AREN’T AFRAID TO LOSE

The difference between great and average is how often you take risks.

Accept risk as a normal part of living. View risk as a part of the process of exploring your world.

Make note of the lessons you learn with each chance you take and move on.

Forget about the consequences of taking chances.

Risk opens you to only a temporary change in direction that can set you straight for your next success.

If you’re brave enough to risk, to temporarily live outside of your comfort zone, for a short period of time, you’re big enough to win.

YOU GAIN STRENGTH OVER COMING OBSTACLES

Sooner or later you’ll encounter a crisis in your life, and how you meet it will determine your future happiness and success.

Since the beginning of time, everyone has been called upon to meet such a crisis. Close scrutiny will show you that most “crisis situations” are opportunities to either advance or stay where you are.

THERE IS NO SUCCESS WITHOUT HARDSHIP

The world is so constructed that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains.

Like it or not, you cannot have one without the other.