Favorite Quotes 3

Listen or your tongue will make you deaf.

Forget about the brick you laid before. Forget about the next brick. Focus on the brick in your hand that you're laying right now.

We carry adolescence around in our bodies all our lives. We get through the Car Crash Age alive and cruise through our early twenties as cool dudes, wily, dashing, winsome . . . shooting baskets, the breeze, the moon, and then we try to become caring men, good husbands, great fathers, good citizens.

If you look at things properly, there's no need to wait for the dessert cart. Dessert is everywhere.

A wise old owl lived in an oak. The more he heard, the less he spoke. The less he spoke, the more he heard. Why aren't we all like that wise old bird?

Success is not to be pursued; its to be attracted by the person you become.

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Freedom and success isn’t about taking big risks. It’s about becoming good enough at something society values, so you can dictate the terms for how you live your life.

The secret to a great life is recognizing that life was never intended to be fair. Life simply isn't "fair," and that's okay. The joy of life comes from playing the game of life as best we can, focusing far more on the love and good example we can contribute to other lives than on demanding money, stuff, love, or appreciation. Service becomes a source of joy when it is not viewed as a duty.

Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.
.Make it a practice when something is done, no matter by whom, to ask yourself: "What is their intention in doing this?" But start with yourself; examine yourself first.