- “What is holding you back? What sets the speed at which you achieve your goals? What determines how fast you move from where you are to where you want to go?” Eat That Frog, Brian Tracy, Page 70
- “This means that 80 percent of the constraints, the factors that are holding you back from achieving your goals, are internal. They are within yourself- within your own personal qualities, abilities, habits, disciplines, or competencies.” Eat That Frog, Brian Tracy, Page 72
- “Behind every constraint or choke point, once it is located and alleviated successfully, you will find another constraint or limiting factor. Whether you’re trying to get to work on time in the morning or build a successful career, there are always limiting factors and bottlenecks that set the speed of your progress. Your job is to find them and to focus your energies on alleviating them as quickly as possible.” Eat That Frog, Brian Tracy, Page 74
- “Some of us remember David as a shepherd boy divinely commissioned by the Lord through the prophet Samuel. Others of us know him as a mighty warrior; for doesn’t the record show the chant of the adoring women following his many victorious battles, “Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands”? Or perhaps we look upon him as the inspired poet or as one of Israel’s greatest kings. Still others recall that he violated the laws of God and took that which belonged to another—the beautiful Bathsheba. He even arranged the death of her husband, Uriah. I, however, like to think of David as the righteous lad who had the courage and the faith to face insurmountable odds when all others hesitated, and to redeem the name of Israel by facing that giant in his life—Goliath of Gath.” Meeting Your Goliath (Thomas S. Monson) Kindle Loc. 40-45
- “It’s not so much what happens to us but how we deal with what happens to us.” (James E. Faust, Ensign, Nov. 2004, 20)
- “…Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life, as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. (Booker T. Washington)
- “Seen with the perspective of eternity, a temporal setback can be an opportunity to develop soul power of eternal significance.” (Dallin H. Oaks, Ensign, Nov. 1985, 63)
- “Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find they haven’t half the strength you think they have.”— Norman Vincent Peale