Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.

• health
• diet
• food

A great man is a man who lives great principles.

• principle

Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.

• attitude
• pain

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.

• initiative

There are two ways to climb an oak tree. You can climb it, or you can sit on an acorn and wait for it to grow.

• initiative

Don't count the reps. Make the reps count.

• exercise

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

• habit

We cannot expect the Americans to jump from capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving Americans small doses of socialism until they suddenly awake to find they have Communism.

• capitalism
• communism
• socialism

Education covers a lot of ground, but it won't cultivate any of it.

• work
• education

When your ability to control external events is limited or nonexistent, you must learn to control your inner responses.

• patience

God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.

• work
• initiative

The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.

• reputation

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.

• conscience

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small mountains.

• persistence

Who gossips to you will gossip of you.

• gossip

Write injuries in sand, kindness in marble.

• forgiveness
• kindness

When a man with money meets a man with experience, the man with experience leaves with money and the man with money leaves with experience.

• money
• experience

Integrity is not so much a value in itself; it is rather the value that guarantees all the other values.

• integrity
• values

Anything worth doing well is worth doing poorly at first.

• excellence
• practice

Your success in life will be in direct proportion to what you do after you do what you are expected to do.

• success

Rules for Being Human: 1) You will learn lessons. 2) There are no mistakes - only lessons. 3) A lesson is repeated until it is learned. 4) If you don't learn the easy lessons, they get harder. (Pain is one way the universe gets your attention.) 5) You'll know you've learned a lesson when your actions change.

• education
• pain

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

• courage
• bravery

One of the advantages of being young is that you don't let common sense get in the way of doing things that everybody knows are impossible.

• age
• possibility

Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.

• pessimism
• worry

Coincidence is just God’s way of staying anonymous.

• God

Plan your work and work your plan.

• work
• planning

Samson killed a thousand men with the jaw bone of an ass. That many sales are killed every day with the same weapon.

• funny
• sales

Write your goals in concrete and your plans in sand.

• goals
• plans
• flexibility

'Done' is better than 'perfect'.

• perfection

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now.

• initiative

Don't try to race sheep. Don't try to herd racehorses.

• management

Don’t be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don’t be bitter, lest you be spewed out.

• personality