A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.
I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.
Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.
Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.
Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.
Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
