45 quotes found
Writer and speaker · American · 1933–2025
American writer and speaker (1933–2025)
“Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.”
“Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.”
“Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.”
“As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.”
“Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.”
“The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.”
“That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.”
“Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.”
“The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.”
“Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.”
“Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.”
“You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.”
“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.”
“Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.”
“Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.”
“Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.”
“Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.”
“Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.”
“Winning" is taking the talent or potential you were born with, and have since developed, and using it fully toward a goal or purpose that makes you happy.”
“Make this moment the moment of truth about yourself. You have been selling short all of your life.”