quotes by Speaker Quotes

“The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops them.”

“An answer to a question no one asked is a wasted answer.”

“Knowledge fueled by emotion equals action.”

“I was like, "If I don't change my mind, if I don't change my heart, if I don't develop some skill, I'm always going to be sleeping in my car."”

“Important thing to realize is the world is not here to make me happy. When you don't demand that the situation, or place, or person should make you happy, then actually the situation, place, or person is quite satisfying.”

“An idea is worthless unless you use it.”

“Happiness is intrinsic, it's an internal thing. When you build it into yourself, no external circumstances can take it away.”

“People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.”

“If you do extreme exercise to lose weight, you'll usually soon stop because you get injured or because it's simply too rigorous to do for a lifetime.”

“Do you really need to mentally label every sense perception and experience? Do you really need to have a reactive like/dislike relationship with life where you are in almost continuous conflict with situations and people? Or is that just a deep-seated mental habit that can be broken? Not by doing anything, but by allowing this moment to be as it is.”

“Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.”

“It is the foregiver who is freed in foregiving.”

“Some people have learned to earn well but they haven't learned to live well.”

“Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.”

“Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.”

“One of the marks of maturity is the ability to disagree without becoming disagreeable”

“I genuinely believe that any business can create a competitive advantage through giving outstanding customer care.”

“When management and labor (employer and employee) both understand they are all on the same side, then each will prosper more.”

“One person caring about another represents life's greatest value.”

“It's lonely at the top - if you don't like that, then you don't start a company.”

“Once bliss becomes normal it's no longer bliss, it's just peace.”

“Change is automatic, Progress is Not!”

“Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.”

“The road to someday leads to a town of nowhere.”

“Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.”

“Don't start your day until you have it finished on paper first.”

“Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders. Abraham Lincoln once said, 'Since I will be no one's slave, I will be no one's master.'”

“The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.”

“Practice the art of patience for nature never acts in haste.”

“As soon as you truly commit to making something happen, the 'how' will reveal itself.”

“A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.”

“Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.”

“I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.”

“It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have... we always want more.”

“After having been lost in the world, suddenly, through the pressure of suffering, the realization comes that the answers may not be found out there in worldly attainment and in the future. That's an important point for many people to reach. That sense of deep crisis-when the world as they have known it, and the sense of self that they have known that is identified with the world, become meaningless.”

“For a decision-the freest of my actions just happens like hiccups inside me or like a bird singing outside me.”

“When you are truly interested in other people, you will learn what they are interested in and if they have a need for your product. If they like you, and most people like folks who take an interest in them, they'll help you find people who do need what you have to sell, even if they don't.”

“Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit.”

“Setting goals helps bring your future into your present and the present is the only time we can take action.”

“If you want to attract people, you need to be like people you enjoy being with.”

“Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.”

“Don't seek more days in your life but more life in your days.”

“The moment you put a mental label on another human being, you can no longer truly relate to that person. . . It then becomes possible to perpetrate any act of violence.”

“The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.”

“Goals are like magnets. They'll attract the things that make them come true.”

“I can easily set my tone.”

“Life is meant to be a celebration! It shouldn't be necessary to set aside special times to remind us of this fact. Wise is the person who finds a reason to make every day a special one.”

“Knowing that one is always capable of change, the second step lies in making the decision to change. Change does not occur by merely willing it anymore than behavior changes simply through insight.”

“Your life experience will never far exceed the expectations of your peers, because to stay connected to them there is an unconscious contract that says we're going to be within this range of each other. Now, on the other hand, if for some reason your friends have a higher expectation for life than you do, just to stay on the team you've got to raise your standard.”

“If you want a fulfilled life, stop thinking about wealthy people and what they have and you don't. Stop thinking from a place of scarcity.”