Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel.
We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass.
When a Mary Kay Sales Director drives a pink Cadillac, she is recognized as a person who has done an outstanding job. It signifies that she is very important to our organization.
While clothes may not make the woman, they certainly have a strong effect on her self-confidence, which, I believe, does make the woman.
Within yourself lies everything you ever dreamed of being. Become everything that God wants you to be. It is within your reach.
You cannot keep determined people from success. If you place stumbling blocks in their way, they will use them for stepping stones and climb to new heights.
You'll find numerous occasions for genuine praise if you'll only look for them. So give. Praise does not thrive in secret! Nor do we.
...do every day or two something for no other reason that you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test. - William James
A man has as many social selves as there are distinct groups of persons about whose opinion he cares. He generally shows a different side of himself to each of these different groups. - William James
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates. - William James
A man's Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house. - William James