Quotes from Paul J. Meyer

If you are fearful, choose courage. If you frequently procrastinate, choose to take action now. If you have always waited for others to lead, use your own initiative.

Construct your determination with sustained effort, controlled attention, and concentrated energy. Opportunities never come to those who wait ... they are captured by those who dare to attack.

Forget about the business outlook... be on the outlook for business.

Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power.

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Enthusiasm glows, radiates, permeates and immediately captures everyone's interest.

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that raises the dough.

There isn't a ruler, a yard stick or a measuring tape in the entire world long enough to compute the strength and capabilities inside you.

Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.

A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants 'success consciousness' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing 'habit of success'.

Forgiveness provides hope, joy, and a bright future that nothing else can.

The act of choosing to forgive is not easy at the moment of hurt and pain, but in the long run, it is the only way to go.

Your self-image is the result of all you have given your subconscious mind as a database, so regardless of your background, what you are willing to become is the only reality that counts.

Goal setting is the most important aspect of all improvement and personal development plans. It is the key to all fulfillment and achievement.

Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.

What you fill your mind with is eventually translated into the words you speak, and then your words create action.

Most time is wasted, not in hours, but in minutes. A bucket with a small hole in the bottom gets just as empty as a bucket that is deliberately kicked over.

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.

Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.

If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.

By forgiving, we are training ourselves to be strong, confident, joyful, peaceful, happy, and loving. These positive attributes end up affecting every part of our lives.

Forgiveness has an uncanny way of bringing incredible good out of incredibly bad situations.

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass!