Don't Wait For Change. You Change.

Some People Act As If It Were Demeaning To Their Manhood To Wish To Be Well-read But You Can No More Be A Healthy Person Mentally Without Reading Substantial Books Than You Can Be A Vigorous Person Physically Without Eating Solid Food. Books Should Be Chosen, Not For Their Freedom From Evil, But For Their Possession Of Good. Dr. Johnson Said: "whilst You Stand Deliberating Which Book Your Son Shall Read First, Another Boy Has Read Both."

Everything You And I Will Ever Have Will Come To Us As The Result Of The Way We Use Our Minds, The One Thing We Possess That Makes Us Different From All Other Creatures.

But The 3% Who Have Taken The Time And Exercised The Discipline To Decide On A Destination And To Chart A Course Sail Straight And Far Across The Deep Oceans Of Life, Reaching One Port After Another And Accomplishing More In Just A Few Years Than The Rest Accomplish In A Lifetime.

Now, Success Is Not The Result Of Making Money; Making Money Is The Result Of Success - And Success Is In Direct Proportion To Our Service. Most People Have This Law Backwards. They Believe That You're Successful If You Earn A Lot Of Money. The Truth Is That You Can Only Earn Money After You're Successful.

It's Difficult For People To Come To The Understanding That Only A Small Minority Of People Ever Really Get The Word About Life, About Living Abundantly And Successfully. Success In The Important Departments Of Life Seldom Comes Naturally, No More Naturally Than Success At Anything - A Musical Instrument, Sports, Fly-fishing , Tennis, Golf, Business, Marriage, Parenthood. But For Some Reason Most People Wait Passively For Success To Come To Them ..., Living As Other People Are Living In The Unspoken, Tacit Assumption That Other People Know How To Live Successfully.