You were not born to fail.

You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time

Welcome every morning with a smile.

A golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday! Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don’t waste it with a false start or no start at all, be a self- starter.

Treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find ‘tomorrow’ on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday’s defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it, all you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, ‘If I had my life to live over again…’ Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day!

The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full bucket of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don’t look back at it too long. Mistakes are life’s way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

Today, and every day, deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive.

‘What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us’