You won't walk into a store and steal food. But people think it's ok to steal music.
The bookends of success are starting and finishing. Decisions help us start; discipline helps us finish.
When you are bigger than your purpose you have a career. When your purpose is bigger than you, you have a calling.
Give God the first part of every day. Give God the first day of every week. Give God the first portion of your income. Give God the first consideration in every decision. Give God the first place in your life.
If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it.
It is hard to feel bad about yourself when you are doing something good for someone else. There are a lot of ways to lift your self-esteem, but making a positive difference in another's life has got to be my best leadership guidance. Serving others and working to add value to them will lift your spirits in a way that nothing else will. Trust me on this one.
If you really want to be a successful leader, you must develop other leaders around you. You must establish a team.
We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.
I was thinking, as I watched her, how little it mattered –about her teeth for instance. I know so many women who have kept all the things she had lost, *but whose inner glow has faded*. Whatever else was gone, Antonia had not lost the fire of life.
Proust's tea cake has nothing on one hour in a college dorm.
Let us hope, I prayed, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.