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“Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.”
“As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.”
“At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn't believe in yourself.”
“Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel.”
“Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.”
“But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.”
“Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.”
“Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.”
“How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.”
“If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself.”
“Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.”
“Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love the verb or our loving actions. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her.”
“The person who doesn’t read is no better off than the person who can’t read.”
“There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.”
“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”
“Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.”
“Principles are the territory. Values are maps. When we value correct principles, we have truth -- a knowledge of things as they are.”
“Start with the end in mind.”
“Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.”
“It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake.”
“How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.”
“The core of any family is what is changeless, what is going to be there -- shared vision and values.”
“The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.”
“Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.”
“We see the world, not as it is, but as we are -- or, as we are conditioned to see it.”
“Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.”
“People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.”
“Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.”
“People have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.”
“It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.”
“Leadership is communicating others’ worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.”
“Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).”
“Courage isn't absent of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important”
“If you want to have a more pleasant, cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, emphatic, consistent, loving parent.”
“The only person I know, is the person I want to be."
“When air is charged with emotions, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection.”
