Develop a sense of urgency: Make a habit of moving fast on your key tasks. Become known as a person who does things quickly and well.

There is an old saying that "by the yard it's hard; but inch by inch, anything's a cinch!

What I learned was that in order to achive great success in life, you must become a special kind of person. To rise above the majority, you must develop qualities and disciplines that the average person lacks.

The fact is that successful people fail far more often than unsuccessful people. Successful people try more things, fall down, pick themselves up, and try again—over and over again—before they finally win.

When you choose the higher value over the lower, the more difficult over the easy, the right over the wrong, you feel good about yourself. Your self-esteem increases. You like and respect yourself more. You have a greater sense of personal pride.

DON'T QUIT When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you're trudging seems all uphill, When the funds are low and the debts are high, And you want to smile but you have to sigh.

Practice one virtue for a period of two weeks, then three weeks, then one virtue per month.

You can accomplish virtually anything if you want it badly enough and if you are willing to work long enough and hard enough.

Do not be discouraged by the resistance you will encounter from your human nature; you must go against your human inclinations. Often, in the beginning, you will think that you are wasting time, but you must go on, be determined and persevere in it until death, despite all the difficulties.

Believing isnot enough, Sang Ly. If you want to resurrect hope, doing is the most important. Can you do these things?

Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what's the use of seeing?

Most stand-ups, once they have done it, think of it as their default job. I'm pretty sure Jon Stewart still feels that way now. You are a stand-up first; other things come and go.