Make Your Bed

Highlights

• you needed people in your life to help you through the difficult times. (View Highlight)
• You cannot paddle the boat alone. (View Highlight)
• Find someone to share your life with. (View Highlight)
• Make as many friends as possible, and never forget that your success depends on others. (View Highlight)
• measure a person by the size of their heart. (View Highlight)
• Life’s Not Fair—Drive On! (View Highlight)
• get over being a sugar cookie and keep moving forward. (View Highlight)
• It is easy to blame your lot in life on some outside force, to stop trying because you believe fate is against you (View Highlight)
• The common people and the great men and women are all defined by how they deal with life’s unfairness (View Highlight)
• Sometimes no matter how hard you try, no matter how good you are, you still end up as a sugar cookie. (View Highlight)
• Failure Can Make You Stronger (View Highlight)
• The Circus, which had started as a punishment for failure, was making us stronger, faster, and more confident in the water. (View Highlight)
• In life you will face a lot of Circuses. (View Highlight)
• You will pay for your failures. (View Highlight)
• But, if you persevere, if you let those failures teach you and strengthen you, then you will be prepared to handle life’s toughest moments. (View Highlight)
• Life is a struggle and the potential for failure is ever present, but those who live in fear of failure, or hardship, or embarrassment will never achieve their potential. (View Highlight)
• Without pushing your limits, without occasionally sliding down the rope headfirst, without daring greatly, you will never know what is truly possible in your life. (View Highlight)
• In life, to achieve your goals, to complete the night swim, you will have to be men and women of great courage. (View Highlight)
• Hope is the most powerful force in the universe. (View Highlight)
• With hope you can inspire nations to greatness. (View Highlight)
• With hope you can raise up the downtrodden. (View Highlight)
• Never quit. It doesn’t sound particularly profound, but life constantly puts you in situations where quitting seems so much easier than continuing on. Where the odds are so stacked against you that giving up seems the rational thing to do. (View Highlight)
• Life is full of difficult times. (View Highlight)
• But someone out there always has it worse than you do. (View Highlight)
• If you fill your days with pity, sorrowful for the way you have been treated, bemoaning your lot in life, blaming your circumstances on someone or something else, then life will be long and hard. (View Highlight)
• on the other hand, you refuse to give up on your dreams, stand tall and strong against the odds—then life will be what you make of it—and you can make it great. (View Highlight)
• Remember… start each day with a task completed. Find someone to help you through life. Respect everyone. Know that life is not fair and that you will fail often. But if you take some risks, step up when times are toughest, face down the bullies, lift up the downtrodden, and never, ever give up—if you do these things, then you can change your life for the better… and maybe the world! (View Highlight)
  • Note: Summary for the book!
• Making your bed will also reinforce the fact that little things in life matter. (View Highlight)
• If you can’t do the little things right, you will never do the big things right (View Highlight)
• And, if by chance you have a miserable day, you will come home to a bed that is made—that you made—and a made bed gives you encouragement that tomorrow will be better. (View Highlight)
• If you want to change the world, you must be your very best in the darkest moment. (View Highlight)