Pathways to Success: Wisdom and Insights for Self-Improvement

Action is the foundational key to all success.

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Wishing you joy, success, and lots of happiness in the coming year.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

We do not learn from experience. We learn from reflecting on experience.

The pursuit of meaning — not happiness — is what makes life worthwhile.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.

Knowledge is not power. Knowledge is only potential power. Action is power.

Life consists of an enormous number of choices that come at us, and each decision we make has consequences, so the quality of our lives depends on the quality of the decisions we make.

If you have more than three priorities, you don’t have any.

The best book is the one you can’t put down. The best exercise is the one you enjoy doing every day. The best health food is the one you find tasty. The best work is the work you’d do for free.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. An optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.