Until the pain became unbearable, I was not willing to change.  Pain brings change.  Crisis precedes progress.  And change exposes our weaknesses.  No wonder so many of us avoid change at any cost.
— Mary Hunt, The Best of the Cheapskate Monthly

You either get it, or you don’t. In almost every situation, there are people who get it, and there are people who don’t — and it’s really easy to tell them apart. Those who get it are enjoying the fruits of their knowledge. Those who don’t spend a lot of time looking puzzled, frustrated, and [...]

Some people prosper when times are challenging, and some people never do, even in good times.  Some people endure serious personal financial storms and come out stronger than ever before; others get swept away.  The difference is this:  Those who do well in both good times and bad times manage their money from a position [...]

We build our working lives on this myth of more.  Our expectation is to make more money as the years go on.  We will get more responsibility and more perks as we move up in our field.  Eventually, we hope, we will have more possessions, more prestige and more respect from our community.  We become [...]

One of the biggest challenges in anyone’s life is knowing how to interpret “failures.”  How we deal with life’s “defeats” and what we determine is the cause will shape our destinies.  We need to remember that how we deal with adversity and challenges will shape our lives more than almost anything else.
— Anthony Robbins, Awaken [...]

The fact that you don’t have any money is a result of all your other problems.  You have thinking problems.  Attitude problems.  Self-esteem problems.  You are lazy.  You lack discipline.  You lack goals.  Your priorities are out of whack.
 
Your biggest problem is not in your wallet or your bank account.  Your biggest problem is between [...]

None of the people I’ve helped on my television show has had a written-down plan.  Not even a 3×5 card with one sentence on it.  Not a Post-It note. Nothing.
 
And they wonder why their lives are such disasters.  Isn’t it obvious?  They don’t have a plan for their life to be anything other than a [...]

Comfortable means you don’t feel bad but you don’t feel all that great, either.  Most people are comfortable.  That’s the problem.  Comfortable people don’t feel bad enough to change but don’t feel good enough to really be able to enjoy their lives.  Either way, their future is doomed.
 
People never make changes when they are comfortable.  [...]

Many people have not learned to delay gratification and want in their twenties for what took their parents 40 years to earn and acquire.  Many fall into the trap of focusing on what they want now instead of what matters most long term.  …One of the biggest mistakes we make in life is that we [...]

Every choice carries a consequence.  For better or worse, each choice is the unavoidable consequence of its predecessor.  There are not exceptions.  If you can accept that a bad choice carries the seed of its own punishment, why not accept the fact that a good choice yields desirable fruit?
— Gary Ryan Blair

If you travel ten miles left when you should have gone ten miles right, you’ve made a thirty-mile mistake:  the ten miles you went in the wrong direction, the ten miles you have to go back to get to where you started from, and then the ten miles you have to go to get to [...]

Just because you have believed something for a long time or have convinced yourself that you just “are” a certain way doesn’t even almost make it true.  You have to be willing to challenge virtually every single thing you have ever believed about yourself. …Remember:  A lie unchallenged becomes the truth.
— Phil McGraw, Ph.D., Self [...]

You must know that in any moment a decision you make can change the course of your life forever: the very next person you stand behind in line or sit next to on an airplane, the very next phone call you make or receive, the very next movie you see or book you read or [...]

Life pushes us all around.  Some give up.  Others fight.  A few learn the lesson and move on.  They welcome life pushing them around.  To these few people, it means they need and want to learn something.  They learn and move on.
— Robert Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad

I don’t believe in luck and I don’t believe in randomness in life.  I believe that what works in your life works because you make it work.  I believe that things work in your life because you choose the right attitude and behavior to generate the right results.  Only by studying those successful situations can [...]