"That no matter how often someone says you can't do something, by simply working harder and trying, you can prove them wrong and actually change your circumstance.Change your thinking and it will change your life."

"The more you engage in good thinking, the more good thoughts you will continue to think. As playwright Victor Hugo asserted, "An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an invasion of ideas."

"Only when you make the right changes to your thinking do other things begin to turn out right."

"Ben Franklin quipped, "Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall receive it." Negative expectations are a quick route to dead-end thinking."

"The person with a plan, a picture, will go after thoughts that add value to their thinking. It's easy to connect the dots if you know where you're going. Likewise, it's easy to connect ideas when you have a plan."

"Hell begins on that day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts we wasted, of all that we might have done that we did not do."

"In order to *do* more, I've got to *be* more."

"The greatest handicap a person has is not realizing his potential."

"You may have a million reasons not to get started now. In a month or a year or five years from now, you may have only one regret - that you didn't start now."

"Psychologist William James said, "That which holds our attention determines our action." In other words, your behavior follows your attitude. The two cannot be separated. As author LeRoy Eims says, "How can you know what is in your heart? Look at your behavior."