High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
You’ll always hit what you aim for in the long run. So why not aim high?
Have the courage to follow your dreams. It’s the first step towards attaining your destiny.
If you can dream it, you can do it. If you don’t have a dream, how are you going to make it come true?
In order to succeed beyond your wildest expectations, you need some wild expectations.
The courage to begin separates dreamers from achievers.
Your difficulty and the difficulty of everyone who ever desires to achieve anything worthwhile comes in the movement.
Don’t always be intending to live a new life but never find a time to begin living it.
Most people fail because they never get started. They don’t go they don’t overcome inertia, they don’t begin.
Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have.
As you proceed in this spirit, the way will open for you to do more. The worst you can do is not to try.
You’re the master of your fate and the captain of your soul.
While your character is formed by circumstances, your own desires can do much to shape those circumstances. Thus, you have the power over the formation of your own character.
Nature is always at work around you. Your character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives you love and hate, jealousy and reverence. You have the power to choose which impulse you will follow.
You can at any time decide to alter the course of your life. No one can EVER take that away from you. The greatest power you possess is the power to choose.
You’re the master of your joys and your sorrows.
EVERYONE HAS A CHANCE FOR SUCCESS
People often handle life as they do bad weather. They while away the time waiting for it to stop. Yet the tide of opportunity comes to everyone.
Opportunity knocks all the time, but you’ve got to be ready for it. When your chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.
The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, for time and chance happen to everyone. Take a second look at what appears to be someone’s “good luck.”
You’ll find not luck but preparation, planning and success-producing thinking.
When you’re prepared for opportunity your chance for success is sure to come. The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
Decide that this year will be your year for success and prepare for it to happen.
FEAR IS OVERCOME WITH ACTION
One of the greatest surprises you’ll experience in life, is when you discover that you can do what you were afraid you couldn’t do.
Your obstacles will melt away, if instead of cowering before them, you make up your mind to walk boldly through them.
Do the thing you fear and fear disappears. Confront your fears, list them, get to know them and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.
When you face the things that scare you, you open the door to freedom.
The only thing you have to fear, is fear itself.
YOU CAN GO ANY WHERE WITH A GOAL
A life without purpose is like a ship without a rudder. Goals are dreams that are written down.
The purpose of a goal is to focus your attention. Your mind will reach toward achievement only when it has a goal.
There is no achievement without goals.
Establish a goal worth working for. Your goal will keep you going in tough times.
Always have something ahead of you. Continuously visualize your next step. Keep moving after you achieve your goal and set another. Momentum is maintained by always having something to look forward to. Constantly give yourself something to work for.
Do what you can do well, and do well whatever you can do and you’ll achieve any goal that you set for yourself.
You can plant your dream with a goal.
ALWAYS TRY TO THINK AHEAD
When you think ahead of any approaching action you’ll always have the advantage. You’ll be the winner.
Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business.
The time to repair your roof is when the sun is shining. Try to do things before they need to be done.
Let your advance worrying become advance thinking and planning. Position yourself ahead of time in the best place for you.
When you do what is necessary, all the odds are in your favor.
Do the next thing.
YOU GAIN STRENGTH OVERCOMING 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.
Indeed, most changes in your life will be due to either “inspiration” or “desperation.”
Personal growth is the process of responding positively to change. Whatever comes your way, give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
A precious stone cannot be polished without friction, nor humanity perfected without trials.
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.
But, life expects you to make progress in reasonable time. That’s why those third grade school chairs are so small.
YOU CAN RISE ABOVE REALITY
Courage is the power to face your difficulties. It comes from the reserves of your mind that are more powerful then any of your outside circumstances.
When you recognize that you are bigger than your problems, you gain the courage necessary to overcome anything.
Your obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined. It gives you the ability to rise above reality.
You are more important than any of your problems.