Excellence/Perfection is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.

The hardest part of any important task is getting started on it in the first place. Once you actually begin work on a valuable task, you seem to be naturally motivated to continue.

Successful people are simply those with success habits.

A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things...

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.

Your most valuable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyoneelse.

Look for the good in every person and every situation. You’ll almost always find it.

The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, anew continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to bereleased and channeled toward some great good.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

We’ve faced and beaten [Long Beach State’s] Jared Weaver and other great pitchers since I’ve been here. The approach we take is to keep battling. If we have to win 1-0, then we’ll win 1-0.

Imagine no limitations; decide what’s right and desirable before you decide what’s possible.

Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses

Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and...

Whatever you believe with emotion becomes your reality. You always act in a manner consistent with your innermost beliefs and convictions.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of very part of your life.

An average person with average talent, ambition and education can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.

[Clutch hitting] is something we didn’t do a whole lot of last year but it makes things a whole lot easier. Other teams look at that and think they were so close, but we proved...

An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.

Your thoughts, vividly imagined and repeated, charged with emotion, become your reality.

The day that you stop learning is the day that you start decreasing your rewardsand start suffering from frustration and lower levels satisfaction.

If you conduct yourself as though you expect to be successful and happy, you willseldom be disappointed.

The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and respect yourself.

The essence of a successful business is really quite simple. It is your ability to offer a product or service that people will pay for at a price sufficiently above your costs, ideally three or...

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

I’m more excited than nervous, but I have started games here before and I think we’re ready as a team. I think that what we’ve seen through the fall has been very competitive and very...

A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.

Dream big dreams! Imagine that you have no limitations and then decide what’s right before you decide what’s possible.

Winding up unfinished business with another person can give you a great burst ofpositive energy.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Whatever you believe, with feeling,becomes your reality.

The glue that holds all relationships together – including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.

Your company’s most valuable asset is how it is known to its customers.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

To earn more, you must learn more.

When you engage in systematic, purposeful actin, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum, you cannot help but feel positive and confident abut yourself.

Its a lot of fun and a big challenge to face a lineup like that. We’ll have to be a lot more careful with the power guys. It’s a treat to face these guys and...

Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.

Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.

No person or situation can make youfed anything-it is only the way you think about a situation thatmakes you feel the way you do.

The mark of the superior thinker is his or her ability to accurately predict the consequences of doing or not doing something.

Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, “what is the most valuable use of my time right now?”

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

We’re all really excited to get out of I.V. and go play a Pac-10 team. It’s especially exciting for the young guys.

Never say anything about yourself you don’t want to come true

The highest paid Americans read an average of two to three hours per day. The lowest paid Americans don’t read at all……58% of adults never read another book after they leave high school—including 42% of...