The most important thing is this: to sacrifice what you are now for what you can become tomorrow.

That I always had space to run and that I had the opportunity to play with my imagination. I also loved that my mum drew and painted with me. I always remember that my parents loved me, and that is essential when you’re a kid; they always showed me how proud they were of my...

A little here and a little there will always accumulate, so why be surprised when steady, small steps take you to great places?

An accumulation of pennies is a fortune. Day-to-day practice is perfection. A dream realized is nothing more than many steps taken toward the borders of once-impossible.

Be a Person. Not a Resumé.

The higher you climb, the more Satan will take notice. Keep climbing! Heaven’s gate has a lock.

Try not to be a man or woman of success, but rather a man or woman of inspiration. If you’re successful, they will flock to you for money or fame, but if you’re inspirational, they will flock to you because they love your soul and how you change theirs.

You will face your greatest opposition when you are closest to your biggest miracle.

Don’t let yourself stagnate or reach a plateau. Keep learning, keep improving. Be open to change. Your ability to constantly raise the bar higher and set standards will help you evolve and take you to the next level.

On his thirteenth birthday he had seen a film in which the central character was a painter who, unable to sell his work, grew cold and hungry as he went from one unsuccessful interview to the next; eventually he had become a vagrant, sleeping in the streets of the city where once he had walked...

Success is like sausage, you’d be surprised what goes into it.

I need a first-class reputation

Understand why you are different and how you help, recognise your target market, and give them something they might not even realise they are missing.

There can be no success in sales without tenacity.

Think upon the numbers I have been sharing with you. Of your competitors, five out of ten will do little more than take their customer’s money immorally. A further three out of ten will leave them dissatisfied.

What you deserve will be down to you, and you alone.

Fascinatingly resilient the tenacity of a child. Not yet conditioned by society to give up when instructed to do so.

And so it must be with the energy you muster for your own work. Get out there and convert the unconverted. Save them all from the charlatans and the nearly-men.

If you woke before dawn one morning with the formula for a vaccine, which would cure the most ghastly disease currently known to man, releasing millions from an agonising death, would you roll over and resume sleeping until daylight?

It has nothing to do with the time being right or wrong. Storms just happen.

You can’t plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Either you get out there and plough it or it doesn’t get done.

Where he comes from, the education he has received, his family history, his wealth, they matter not a jot, but the perception he conveys – that my, boy, is the key. If they believe he belongs – that he is part of the room – then he does, he is. And whichever room he is...

In short, the difference between you and your doctor is that he has a well-designed reputation and you do not.

Trust me. In a very short time, you will become sought out by those in your network. Initially for your sound advice, but soon after as a provider of service. Few people seek advice about a subject that doesn’t require a solution.

Sceptics are persuaded by a good reputation, for it is an unspoken statement of proof.

Until you take the first step forward, failure remains reassuringly impossible.

Don’t allow your imagination to colour events as lesser men would, and see movement in motionless things.

Everything would have been for nothing just because I simply didn’t listen.

Believe it; 25 years from now or less, you will be voted for or appointed by the actions you are taking today! Guess what the vote will mean. Will it be an election for you to occupy the edifice of failure or to be the administrator in the kingdom of success? Rise up and optimize...

If you do not achieve your God-given goals, it does not mean God has not given the power. It rather means you have taken His power for granted!

In regards to climbing the ladder of success, there is a better future, with a greater purpose. One can find it, only if he or she searches for it.

True friends are placed together for the purpose of accomplishing great achievements that help others.

Hope gives us reasons to live and pursue our dreams, expecting greater possibilities.

If every book was judged by its cover, very few would be read; education would be limited, and fewer movies would be made.

I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there’s nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.

It is one of the unexpected disasters of the modern age that our new unparalleled access to information has come at the price of our capacity to concentrate on anything much. The deep, immersive thinking which produced many of civilization’s most important achievements has come under unprecedented assault. We are almost never far from a...

What makes the prospect of death distinctive in the modern age is the background of permanent technological and sociological revolution against which it is set, and which serves to strip us of any possible faith in the permanence of our labours. Our ancestors could believe that their achievements had a chance of bearing up against...

It was very quiet at the hotel, as if there had been a death in the family. When you have quit the Tour, nobody really knows what to say or do. (…) Everything I’d previously achieved meant nothing; all I was now was a pro rider who couldn’t finish the Tour de France.

We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will give us enduring satisfaction. We are invited to imagine ourselves scaling the steep cliff face of happiness in order to reach a wide, high plateau on which we will live out the rest of our lives; we are not reminded that soon after gaining...

Goals doesn’t leave you like men, goals wait, they wait for their achievers.

Your track record, and great achievements may prompt people to invest their resources such as time and money, not their heart.

No matter how against your conditions are, never divert yourself from your life goals.

In my opinion, at least, the splendid achievements of Alexander are the clearest possible proof that neither strength of body, nor noble blood, nor success in war even greater than Alexander’s own… that none of these things, I say, can make a man happy, unless he can win one more victory in addition to those...

You can’t be creative without criticism. If your life is without critics then maybe you are painting your life’s masterpiece with only a broken brown crayon.

Desires and wishes don’t lead to success. Plans and efforts do. Create a vision, chalk out an action plan, put in your best efforts and give yourself a headstart in achieving your dreams.

If this conviction had not been a strongly emotional one and if those searching for knowledge had not been inspired by Spinoza’s Amor Dei Intellectualis, they would hardly have been capable of that untiring devotion which alone enables man to attain his greatest achievements.

My dear, here is lesson number one for using opportunity; waste no time on false humility. Tell the world about your achievements don’t wait for someone else to do it.

Your achievements die with you.Your deeds live on as your legacy!

Take the challenge of your life.Reach out to your goals.There is no limit to what you can achieve.

You must passionately pursue all your dreams.