Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important. 

Motivation is in the direction of the desired result not away from what you don't want.

Surround yourself with people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.

Focus on your goals, not your fear. Focus like a laser beam on your goals.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

When you want to do a big thing, get the mental pattern, make it perfect, know just what it means, enlarge your thought, keep it to yourself, pass it over to the creative power behind all things, wait and listen, and when the impression comes, follow it with assurance. Don't talk to anyone about it. Never listen to negative talk or pay attention to it and you will succeed where all others fail.

Seek out positive people who have achieved the success you want to create in your own life. Remember the adage: “Never ask advice of someone with whom you wouldn’t want to trade places."

When someone comes to you to talk about a problem, if you move the conversation on to a discussion of potential solutions, you fuel their creative problem solving abilities on average by 20% - not to mention you make them feel better! You make them smarter and more empowered to tackle challenges.

Stop trying to control how you feel, and instead take control of what you do.

Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions. He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent and thereby succeed in winning, may be called a heaven-born captain. 

Find a happy person, and you will find a project.

You may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with them.

You may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with them.

Leonardo da Vinci pointed out that "simplicity is the ultimate sophistication".

What am I saying to myself?
What am I saying to my teammates?
What language am I using?
How am I impacting myself?
How am I impacting others?
How am I being my best self every time I step on the field?
It’s critical to have a fundamental mental plan.

Stress + rest = growth. This equation holds true regardless of what it is that you are trying to grow.

When you embrace the process of your work, instead of focusing on the results, you’ll always be happier, plus do a much better job.

Whatever goal you want to reach, you can reach it 10 times faster if you are happy.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

Negative thoughts are like microtoxins—relatively harmless when your exposure is low, but in high quantities they are poisonous to your mind.

I’ve never heard of anyone on their deathbed saying, “I wish I would have spent more time watching TV or reading Facebook posts."

When you feel bad, try to hold on. When you feel good, it's time to push.

My mind begins to seem like a video game: I can either play it intelligently, learning more in each round, or I can be killed in the same spot by the same monster, again and again.

Fixing your attention on a positive goal causes Life to back you up with all its processes and you realize that the universe is for you and never against you.

One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.

There is a natural human tendency to dislike a person who brings us unpleasant information, even when that person did not cause the bad news. The simple association with it is enough to stimulate our dislike.

If you ever find that you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.

Within 60 seconds, replace all problem-focused thought with solution-focused thinking.

Make sure every day you do what matters most. When you know what matters most, everything makes sense. When you don’t know what matters most, anything makes sense.

Be careful who you listen to. Do not spend time listening to the problems of others, or you will soon inherit their problems.

Consciously choosing what and who you surround yourself with is among the keys to finding more space for joy.

When we surround ourselves with people who are committed to understanding and loving, we’re nourished by their presence and our own seeds of understanding and love are watered. When we surround ourselves with people who gossip, complain, and are constantly critical, we absorb these toxins.

One of the key practical lessons of modern neuroscience is that the power to direct our attention has within it the power to shape our brain’s firing patterns, as well as the power to shape the architecture of the brain itself.

Addiction originally meant a different kind of strong connection: in ancient Rome, being addicted meant you had just been sentenced to slavery.

If you’re around people who spend all they make, chances are excellent that you’ll spend all you make.

Focus on the things that you can control and never worry about the things you cannot.

To fix your attention on the best is to surround yourself with the best, and to become the best.

When the world is crumbling around you and you have no idea what to do your best tactic is to stay consistent.