Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.
Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.
We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.
I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.
To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.
If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.
Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.
The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.
Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.
The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.
It's amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.
In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.
When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That's when you can get more creative in solving problems.
If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.
When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence.
But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!
We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.
A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
How can you possibly reconcile the justice of God with the idea that only through Christ can you be saved? Most of the world lives and dies and never even hears of Christ. There has to be some mechanism set up for all those who have ever lived to have an opportunity to hear of Christ.
When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
