Great Throughts Treasury

"The successful cannot always prevent a tragedy around them, but they can prevent it from becoming a tragedy within them."

"What you respect will move toward you. What you do not respect will move away from you. It may be friends, wisdom, or money."

"Within each heart beats a fervent desire to be needed, desired, and celebrated."

"Attack is the proof that your enemy anticipates your success."

"You will only be remembered for two things: the problems you solve, or the ones you create."

"The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine."

"Whatever you have been given is what someone needs."

"You will never change your life until you change something you do daily."

"You will always move toward anyone who increases you and away from anyone who makes you less."

"Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you."

"Your imagination is more important than your knowledge."

"Your self-portait decides your conduct."

"Failure to prepare is preparing to fail. "

"What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe."

"Intolerance of your present creates your future."

"Loneliness is not the absence of affection, but the absence of direction."

"Pursuit is the proof of Love."

"Pay any price to stay in the presence of extraordinary people."

"To better phrase that, intolerance of your present creates your better future. If things are bad, but tolerable, they’ll remain so. Your current standings must be so horrible and unbearable that you can’t stand for them to be the same any longer. If your situation is intolerable but it’s bad, make it intolerable – for then you’ll have to change it, not just want to."

"Your reaction to a man of God determines God's reaction to you."

"Those who do not respect your time will not respect your wisdom either."