It's your ATTITUDE not your APTITUDE that ultimately determines your ALTITUDE!

With my past forgiven, my present secure, and my future irrevocably guaranteed, why shouldn't I be enthusiastically optimistic?

It's not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.

Kids instinctively know - although they will argue to the contrary - that they really are not mature enough to make good decisions on some important issues.

It's not where you start or even what happens to you along the way that's important. What is important is that you persevere and never give up on yourself.

I never worry because I know who I am and I know Whose I am.

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

Just as ships are built to sail the seas and planes to fly the heavens, so is man created for a purpose.

Attitudosis cannot survive a strong, steady dose of uplifting literature or a regular donation of your time to a good cause. Make eye contact with someone who doesn't expect it and then give her your best smile. When you are willing to improve your attitude and you take action to do so, you'll enjoy life even more.

Don't let someone who gave up on their dreams talk you out of going after yours.

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

The day our memories become larger than our dreams is the day our soul begins to shrink. —IKE REIGHARD.

Christians who live to be pleasing to God are so spiritually attractive that people want to know what makes them stand apart.

Timid salesmen have skinny kids.

Money is not the most important thing, but when you need it, there are few substitutes. So while I like the things money can buy, I love what money won't buy. It bought me a house but it won't buy me a home. It would buy me a companion but it won't buy me a friend.

Only men of character are trusted.

I believe it's important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.

Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown.

The one thing coaches cannot tolerate... is the individual who grows arrogant because he excelled at a lower level and believes he has nothing else to learn.

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.

Life is a classroom -- only those who are willing to be lifelong learners will move to the head of the class.

Remember, you can earn more money, but when time is spent is gone forever.

You never know when one kind act, or one word of encouragement, can change a life forever.

Encouragement is the fuel on which hope runs.

People who accomplish great things work toward their objectives every day.

Today I will be a successful sales professional, and I will learn something today that will make me even more professional tomorrow.

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.

Many people who want to be great aren't willing to do the work to make it possible!

You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

U can feed ur ego or u can feed ur family. U can't feed them both.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and wife clearly understood that they're on the same side.

Money will buy you a bed, but not a good night's sleep, a house but not a home, a companion but not a friend.

Research indicates that employees have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.

You will have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.

Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come in when deep down inside they know it has never left port.

If your watch is slow by just four minutes, that's not much - unless you've been warned that if you're even one minute late ever again you will be fired. Then four minutes make a big difference.

Don't become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.

Surround yourself with people who want the best for you and the people you love!

You can succeed at almost anything for which you have unbridled enthusiasm.

If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time.

Most men go to their graves with their dreams still inside them.

I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.

The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations.

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn't solve any problems.

The depth of your spirit will determine the height of your success.

Whether it's eight o'clock in the morning or eight o'clock at night, I always try to greet others before they have a chance to speak to me.