Patrick Lencioni Quotes

I'm one of those people where, the more responsibility I have, the better I become. The more I rise up to it. The less responsibility I have, the more I can easily devolve.

The achiever is the only individual who is truly alive.

I do believe in self-help.

Get off your bottom and be the stand, and do the work you can to pursue the American Dream for yourself, and help others to do the same.

If you have to rely on yourself, you try harder, and when you try harder, you feel bigger.

It wasn't poverty that drove me on.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Grow up and let anyone try to contend with the adult you.

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

I plan on doing as much in my life as I possibly can.

Life can be a lot broader... when you realize one simple thing: And that is that everything around us that we call life was made up by people who were no smarter than you. And you can build your own life that other people can live in. So build a life. Don't live one. Build one. Find your opportunity, and always be sexy.

Certain people in life are just going to take what's given to them, and certain people in life know they want better and they're going to go find better. I've always been that type of person.

Real change happens when you feel genuinely inspired, turned on by possibility and unwilling to settle for anything less.

Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.

If I can be in a position of power and influence, and be able to make my present better, then I want to do that.

I always had the energy to learn new things and achieve more.

My idea of putting the city on is giving inspiration to others to want to put themselves on. You should never depend on someone else to put you on. I used to do that, and it didn't get me anywhere.

Do I think people who need a good opportunity become harder workers sometimes? Yes.

But I like a challenge, anything I can't do it inspires me to learn it.

I am one of those people who cannot sit idle at home; I would get depressed. I have a constant hunger to create and to learn.

Dream more, learn more, care more, and be more.

At certain points if your life, you like doing more. I'm not sure what causes it or for what reasons; you just do it.