Quotation Collection

I have a no limitations belief in my Creator, a no limitations belief in myself, a no limitations belief in other people, and a no limitations belief in what we can do together. Paul Meyer

• limitations
• possibility
• confidence

I'm kind of what you call an inverted paranoid. I just believe everybody in the world is out to get me and help me do whatever I want to do. I think everybody wants to be my partner. I think everybody wants to be my customer. When I walk up to a door I visualize a red carpet rolled out and two trumpeters standing on each side and the person inside waiting to do business with me, because he not only wants to buy from me; he wants to be my friend. Paul Meyer

• confidence

It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted. Mary O'Connor

• priorities

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due. William Inge

• worry

While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of those actions. Consequences are governed by natural law. Stephen Covey

• results
• actions
• cause and effect

Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences. Stephen Covey

• principle
• cause and effect

Not to acknowledge a mistake, not to correct it and learn from it, is a mistake of a different order. It usually puts a person on a self-deceiving, self-justifying path, often involving rationalization (rational lies) to self and to others. This second mistake, this cover-up, empowers the first, giving it disproportionate importance, and causes far deeper injury to self. Stephen Covey

• mistakes

This is the source.

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. Milton Berle

• opportunity

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want now. Zig Ziglar

• priorities
• desire

As we make and keep commitments, even small commitments, we begin to establish an inner integrity that gives us the awareness of self-control and the courage and strength to accept more of the responsibility for our own lives. By making and keeping promises to ourselves and others, little by little, our honor becomes greater than our moods. Stephen Covey

• commitment

Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there," stop yourself. That thought is the problem. Stephen Covey

• forgiveness
• compassion

This is the source.

The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove. Samuel Johnson

• happiness
• contentment

To begin with the end in mind means to start with a clear understanding of your destination. It means to know where you're going so that you better understand where you are now and so that the steps you take are always in the right direction. Stephen Covey

• purpose
• direction

This is the source.

It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busy-ness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall. It is possible to be busy - very busy - without being very effective. Stephen Covey

• priorities
• time management

This is the source.

All things are created twice, but not all first creations are by conscious design. In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances outside our Circle of Influence to shape much of our lives by default. We reactively live the scripts handed to us by family, associates, other people's agendas, the pressures of circumstance - scripts from our earlier years, from our training, our conditioning. Stephen Covey

• circumstance
• responsibility

This is the source.

Whether we are aware of it or not, whether we are in control of it or not, there is a first creation to every part of our lives. We are either the second creation of our own proactive design, or we are the second creation of other people's agendas, of circumstances, or of past habits. Stephen Covey

• habit
• independence

This is the source.

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value. Stephen Covey

• values
• change

This is the source.

If a man has the right attitude, even if he is average, he'll work hard enough to play well. As long as he thinks he can be good, that's all that counts. Bear Bryant

• confidence
• attitude

If you don't learn anything but self discipline, then athletics is worthwhile. Bear Bryant

• exercise
• sports

When I was a young coach I used to say, "Treat everybody alike." That's bull. Treat everybody fairly. Bear Bryant

• fairness
• coaching

Sure, being hungry could be a great motivator, but coaching is a lot more fun if you don't have to do it for a living. Bear Bryant

• coaching

Winning isn't everything, but it sure beats anything that comes in second. Bear Bryant

• victory

Innocent pleasures in moderation can provide relaxation for the body and mind and can foster family and other relationships. But pleasure, per se, offers no deep, lasting satisfaction or sense of fulfillment. The pleasure-centered person, too soon bored with each succeeding level of "fun," constantly cries for more and more. So the next new pleasure has to be bigger and better, more exciting, with a bigger "high." A person in this state becomes almost entirely narcissistic, interpreting all of life in terms of the pleasure it provides to the self here and now. Stephen Covey

• joy
• moderation
• fun

This is the source.

Principles always have natural consequences attached to them. There are positive consequences when we live in harmony with the principles. There are negative consequences when we ignore them. But because these principles apply to everyone, whether or not they are aware, this limitation is universal. And the more we know of correct principles, the greater is our personal freedom to act wisely. Stephen Covey

• principle
• cause and effect
• wisdom

This is the source.

No matter how many personal productivity techniques you master, there will always be more to do than you can ever accomplish in the time you have available to you, no matter how much it is. Brian Tracy

• time management
• priorities

You can get control of your tasks and activities only to the degree that you stop doing some things and start spending more time on the few activities that can really make a difference in your life. Brian Tracy

• time management
• priorities

Your ability to select your most important task at each moment, and then to get started on that task and to get it done both quickly and well, will probably have more of an impact on your success than any other quality or skill you can develop. Brian Tracy

• priorities
• time management

Whenever you complete a task of any size or importance, you feel a surge of energy, enthusiasm, and self-esteem. The more important the completed task, the happier, more confident, and more powerful you feel about yourself and your world. Brian Tracy

• completion

You can actually develop a "positive addiction" to endorphins and to the feeling of enhanced clarity, confidence, and competence that they trigger. When you develop this addiction, you will, at an unconscious level, begin to organize your life in such a way that you are continually starting and completing ever more important tasks and projects. You will actually become addicted, in a very positive sense, to success and contribution. Brian Tracy

• success
• completion

One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not be done at all. Brian Tracy

• time management
• perfection

Select your work carefully and if you don't love what you're doing enough to want to be the best at it, get out! Flee from the boring or unsatisfying job as you would from a burning building. Working at something you don't care about is the very best way to waste your life. Remember, this life is not a rehearsal for something else. Brian Tracy

• enthusiasm
• passion
• excellence
• job

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together. Josh Billings

• words
• brevity