"Taking responsibility means figuring out what you want in life and acting on it. Set your goals—then go out and work toward them. Figure out what kind of space you would like to live in … then create it. It doesn’t take a lot of money to create a peaceful, loving home for yourself. Look around and see who you would love to include in your circle of friends … then pick up the phone and make plans to get together. Don’t sit around waiting for them to call you."
-- Susan Jeffers
"Your natural state is to be happy, healthy, joyous, and full of excitement at being alive. You should wake up each morning eager to start the day. You should feel wonderful about yourself and your relationships with the people in your life. As a fully functioning, mature adult, you should be doing things every day that move you upward and onward toward the realization of your full potential. You should be grateful for all your blessings, in every area of your life."
-- Brian Tracy
"Growth equals change. If you want to get better, you have to keep changing and improving. That means stepping out into new areas. If you dedicate time to new things related to areas of strength, then in you'11 grow as a leader. Don't forget: leadership, if you're through growing, you're through."
-- John C. Maxwell
"In daily life, there are many occasions when I could make things easier—in the short run, at least—if I would, metaphorically speaking, “just stop rowing.” But I have found that the achievement of significant goals generally requires me to be able and willing to “take one more stroke,” even though I am dead tired. I’m convinced that it is this ability, as much as any, that allows some people to excel in the challenges they undertake, while other people fail. It is also possible that at some point in my life, my ability to survive will depend on whether I have the fortitude to take just one more breath—and then another. I would like to think that rowing helps me develop this fortitude."
-- William B Irvine
"Successful people do whatever it takes to get the job done, whether or not they feel like it. They understand that it is not any one single push on the flywheel but the cumulative total of all their sequential, unfailingly consistent pushes that eventually creates movement of such astonishing momentum in their lives."
-- Jeff Olson
"Success across life, work, and leadership requires us to take the reins, taking full ownership of our life and destiny. Having this level of command requires that we are conscious of and in control of the very aspect of ourselves that drives essentially everything we do: our mindsets. When we take charge of our mindsets we become the driver and conscious creator of a brighter future."
-- Ryan Gottfredson
"Like the Wright brothers, you can transition from limiting beliefs to expansive possibilities. You can move from absolutes such as I can't do math well to I could do math to I am learning to do math well to I do math well From there, you can keep opening more possibilities to get better at math!"
-- Matthew E. Poll
"When we embrace the present moment, when we fully accept it, when we act as if we’ve chosen it, we transcend our mental limits and start to discover things which had previously been hidden from view."
-- Mario Alonso Puig
"Once we start thinking of setbacks as Stoic tests, we may discover that instead of dreading them, we look forward to them. Besides giving us a chance to develop our skill in dealing with them, setbacks give us an opportunity to display the skill we have thus far developed. Much as a tennis player can take pride in her playing ability, we can take pride in our ability, when set back, to find a good workaround without becoming angry, anxious, or despondent. It is a wonderful skill to possess—and one that relatively few people do possess."
-- William B Irvine
"Successful people are those who understand that the little choices they make matter, and because of that they choose to do things that seem to make no difference at all in the act of doing them, and they do them over and over and over until the compound effect kicks in."
-- Jeff Olson
