Stedman Graham Quotes

If you're to fulfill your vision for a better life, you must formulate a plan of action. Effective planning involves identifying and prioritizing those actions that will move you most efficiently toward your goal.

People who let events and circumstances dictate their lives are living reactively. That means that they don't act on life, they only react to it.

I'm a lucky guy. No question.

People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.

Having a vision for your life allows you to live out of hope, rather than out of your fears.

Most people are defined by their titles, their cars, their house, where they came from, their color, their race, their religion. And so it's up to you to take control of your own life and define you. As long as you understand who you are and you have a solid foundation of understanding what your talents are, what your skills are.

Each of us can make a great difference in the lives of other people, particularly as we move along the Success Process ourselves growing in strength, gaining experience and knowledge.

All your life you compare and contrast, explore and search. But knowing yourself well is, well, elusive.

You know and we have about 60 to 70 percent black men in prison today and it's because of the negativity they have in their own hearts.

Sports isn't just a part of life. It's not life itself.

To get where we want to go in life, we have to keep at it. We have to create a vision, make choices based on what moves us most swiftly toward our goals, and go after them with determination and single-mindedness.

If you did the same thing you did yesterday as you did today as you will do tomorrow, what have you done? The same thing.

Freedom is about a way of thinking. Freedom is about understanding that you can do anything that you want and freedom is about being able to take information and education and make it relevant to your own growth every single day. Freedom is not staying in the box. Freedom is not doing what other people want you to do.

The idea of being able to serve as an example, based upon how to process, how to think, how to realize our own dreams, we can pass that down to our children.

To know yourself is the first and most important step in pursuing your dreams and goals.

To pursue success effectively, you must build supportive relationships that will help you work toward your goals. To build those relationships, you need to trust others; and to earn their trust, you in turn must learn to be trustworthy ...

There are always risks when you chase after a dream because growth requires that you leave your comfort zone and enter unknown territory. But without confronting those risks and facing your fears, you'll never, as Nike says, "Just do it." Now the truth is, you may fail in some of your efforts, but you will never succeed if you are not willing to risk failure. And even if you do fail, you can learn from the experience and try again. To do that, you will need courage, and you will also need to have faith in your ability to achieve your goals ...

I've worked in the prison system for five years, and most of those folks in prison didn't have a direction.

And whenever you encounter a problem, no matter how insurmountable it might seem, there is one simple response that should be ingrained in your behavior: Never give up.

A primary purpose for setting goals is to get you moving in the right direction. When you set goals, you have to keep them always in mind.

You know, and younger people today, you know, they may not have Social Security. They may not have a pension. They may have 17 different jobs. And so they have to be - they have to, you know, establish somewhat of an ownership, you know, mentality.

I define myself by everything that I love, everything I can create, everything that I can imagine.

When everybody has access to an avalanche of information, becoming a master thinker is very important in your life-long security.

I've found that often, just when you think you've hit a wall, you experience a breakthrough that takes you to new heights in accomplishment