"Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more."
A. Lou Vickery

"The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary."
Thomas Edison

"Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make me feel important.´ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life."
Mary Kay Ash

"Success always has a price; success, with integrity, is the real bottom line."
Denis Waitley

"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."
Theodore Roosevelt

"Success is not a native of any nation neither is it related to any family, so you don´t have an excuse not to leave the imprint of impact of the sand of time before your time is over on this planet."
Akin A. Awolaja

"Success is creating a state of mind that allows you to obtain anything you really desire."
Mark Victor Hansen

"The first qualification for success in my view is a strong work ethic."
Henry Ford II

"Successful people begin where failures leave off. Never settle for ‘just getting the job done.´ Excel! "
Tom Hopkins

"The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself."
Wang Yang-Ming

"Three rules for success. Number 1. Do what's right. Be on time, be polite, and be honest; remain free from drugs; and if you have any questions, get out your Bible. Number 2. Do your best. Mediocrity is unacceptable when you are capable of doing better. Number 3. Treat others as you want to be treated. Practice love and understanding."
Lou Holtz

"Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself."
Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant

"Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals."
Jim Rohn

"Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does."
Harvey Mackay

"The path to success is to take massive, determined action."
Anthony Robbins

"You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success."
Zig Ziglar

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Winners are people with a definite purpose in life."
Denis Waitley

"Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory."
General George S. Patton

"You can't be a winner if you're a whiner... wiener."
Jeffrey Gitomer

"I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle -- victorious."
Vince Lombardi

"Winning in life is more than just money... it's about winning on the inside...and knowing that you have played the game of life with all you had... and then some."
Doug Firebaugh

"It seems to me that it's actually harder to invent excuses than it is to be successful."
Jeffrey Gitomer

"Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory, nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt

"When building a team, I always search first for people who love to win. If I can't find any of those, I look for people who hate to lose."
H. Ross Perot

"My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out."
Ronald Reagan

"The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur."
Vince Lombardi

"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."
Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower

"Don't be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. Its the horse that finishes a neck ahead that wins the race."
Andrew Carnegie

"The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender."
Vince Lombardi

"No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves."
Dwight Eisenhower

"Victory belongs to the most persevering."
Napoleon Bonaparte

"Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we are curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."
Walt Disney

"Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other."
Dr. Maxwell Maltz

"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."
Coco Chanel

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
Howard Thurman

"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."
Mother Teresa

"If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator."
W. Beran Wolfe

"All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs."
Anthony Robbins

"Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake."
William James

"To respond is positive, to react is negative."
Zig Ziglar

"A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it."
Alistair Cooke

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."
H.G. Wells

"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to."
George Allen

"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."
Benjamin Franklin

"It is impossible to get the measure of what an individual can accomplish, unless the responsibility is placed on him."
Alfred Sloan

"Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings."
Arthur Rubinstein

"I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But, I can't accept not trying."
Michael Jordan

"The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet."
Ann Landers

"An effective leader develops the ability to correctly identify the pertinent detail or details - incidentals in a market, industry or sport that might create an incremental advantage."
John Wooden

"What counts can't always be counted; what can be counted doesn't always count."
Albert Einstein

"All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find it on your own terms."
Harrison Ford

"Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don't do well simply because they major in minor things."
Jim Rohn

"To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right."
Confucius

"It's good to have money and the things money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things money can't buy."
George Horace Lormier

"Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life and when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful - a thought that is love."
Mary Manin Morrissey

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
Mother Teresa

"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age."
Jeanne Moreau

"The greatest thief this world ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large."
Henry Wheeler Shaw

"You may delay, but time will not."
Benjamin Franklin

"Style is being yourself, but on purpose."
Patricia Fripp

"Everything you see happening is the consequence of that which you are."
Dr. David Hawkins

"Study to be what you wish to seem."
John Bate

"My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?"
Bob Hope

"It is in quiet that our best ideas occur to us. Don't make the mistake of believing that by a frantic kind of dashing around you are being your most effective and efficient self. Don't assume that you are wasting time when you take time out for thought."
Napoleon Hill and W. Clement Stone

"An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather."
Washington Irving

"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings."
Eric Hoffer

"Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event."
Brian Tracy

"Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time."
Brian Tracy

"Some people fold after making one timid request. They quit too soon. Keep asking until you find the answers. In sales there are usually four or five "no's" before you get a "yes"."
Jack Canfield

"A visionary company doesn't simply balance between preserving a tightly held core ideology and stimulating vigorous change and movement; it does both to an extreme."
Jim Collins

"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."
Franklin D. Roosevelt

"How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?"
Anthony Robbins

"Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new."
Brian Tracy

"Every man dies. Not every man lives. The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the "buts" you use today."
Les Brown

"It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going."
Brian Tracy

"Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."
Napoleon Hill

"People who ask confidently get more than those who are hesitant and uncertain. When you've figured out what you want to ask for, do it with certainty, boldness and confidence."
Jack Canfield

"Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true."
Brian Tracy

"People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons."
Zig Ziglar

"We have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for the day. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. Our attitude is everything."
Charles Swindoll

"I think and think for months and years, ninety-ninety times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right."
Albert Einstein

"You're not going to make me have a bad day. If there's oxygen on earth and I'm breathing, it's going to be a good day."
Cotton Fitzsimmons

"When you row another person across the river, you get there yourself."
Fortune Cookie

"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."
Woody Allen

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
Winston Churchill

"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win."
Roger Bannister

"A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies."
William Wrigley Jr.

"You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you."
Brian Tracy

"A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position."
John Maxwell

"The leader accepts high levels of personal responsibility for performance and results."
Brian Tracy

"Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice."
Max DePree

"If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them."
Harvey Mackay

"The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not a bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly."
Jim Rohn

"The first basic ingredient of leadership is a guiding vision. The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do - professionally and personally - and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures."
Warren Bennis

"Nothing so conclusively proves a man´s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself."
Thomas J. Watson

"A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself."
Joel Arthur Barker

"Personal leadership is the quiet determining factor of all success. You must personally lead you to success... everyday."
Doug Firebaugh

"Real leaders forever need bigger and more irresistible challenges."
Mark Victor Hansen

"Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion."
John Welch

"Leadership is the ability to decide what has to be done and then get people to want to do it."
Patricia Fripp

"Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions."
Harold S. Geneen

"It doesn´t take much talent to issue orders. It does take continued discipline to study the variety of people you are leading in order to understand what it takes to motivate them - and to inspire them to do their very best to make the company and themselves a success."
Fred Bucy

"A person in authority is not necessarily a saint, an artist, a philosopher or a hero, but he respects truth, appreciates what is beautiful, knows how to behave himself and is courageous in meeting his obligations."
Earl Nightingale

"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd."
James Crook

"One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will."
Harvey Mackay

"Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience."
Denis Waitley

"We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present."
Adlai E. Stevenson

"Time is the wisest counsellor."
Pericles

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be."
Napoleon Hill

"Don't let the learning from your own experiences take too long. If you have been doing it wrong for the last ten years, I would suggest that's long enough!"
Jim Rohn

"For years I have been accused of making snap judgments. Honestly, this is not the case because I am a profound military student and the thoughts I express, perhaps too flippantly, are the result of years of thought and study."
George S. Patton

"I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy."
Anthony Robbins

"Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you."
Mary Tyler Moore

"Never doubt that a small group of concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
Margaret Mead

"There's a myth that time is money. In fact, time is more precious than money. It's a nonrenewable resource. Once you've spent it, and if you've spent it badly, it's gone forever."
Neil Fiore

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."
Henry Ford

"The trouble for most people is they don't decide to get wealthy, they just dream about it."
Michael Masterson

"You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour."
Jim Rohn

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
Carl Jung

"Success doesn't come to you, you go to it."
Marva Collins

"If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed."
David Viscott

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Forget about all the reasons why something may not work. You only need to find one good reason why it will."
Dr. Robert Anthony

"A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone."
Robert Kiyosaki

"Because of their courage, their lack of fear, they (creative people) are willing to make silly mistakes. The truly creative person is one who can think crazy; such a person knows full well that many of his great ideas will prove to be worthless. The creative person is flexible -- he is able to change as the situation changes, to break habits, to face indecision and changes in conditions without undue stress. He is not threatened by the unexpected as rigid, inflexible people are."
Frank Goble

"Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation."
Brian Tracy

"The entrepreneur builds an enterprise; the technician builds a job."
Michael Gerber

"I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle-victorious."
Vince Lombardi

"I always wanted to be the best I could be at whatever I did. I didn't want to be the number one golfer in the world. I just wanted to be as good as I could be."
Greg Norman

"Success depends on getting good at saying no without feeling guilty. You cannot get ahead with your own goals if you are always saying yes to someone else's projects. You can only get ahead with your desired lifestyle if you are focused on the things that will produce that lifestyle."
Jack Canfield

"Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone."
G.B. Stern

"I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often."
Brian Tracy

"Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all."
Brian Tracy

"If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development."
Brian Tracy

"If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants."
David Ogilvy

"The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life."
Brian Tracy

"I was just pursuing what I enjoyed doing. I mean, I was pursuing my passion."
Pierre Omidyar

"Your needs will be met once you can find a way of projecting energy and fulfilling someone else's need."
Stuart Wilde Biography

"The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear."
Brian Tracy

"The entrepreneur is our visionary, the creator in each of us. We're born with that quality and it defines our lives as we respond to what we see, hear, feel, and experience. It is developed, nurtured, and given space to flourish or is squelched, thwarted, without air or stimulation, and dies."
Michael Gerber

"The fact is, everyone is in sales. Whatever area you work in, you do have clients and you do need to sell."
Jay Abraham

"A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life."
Suze Orman

"A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life."
Charles Darwin

"There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots. The other is wings."
Hodding Carter, Jr.

"There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be."
John Fowles

"This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something."
Frank Capra

"Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months."
Clifford Stoll

"The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most."
Ann Landers

"If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the river of greatness is always the stream of adversity."
Cavett Robert

"Have faith in your dreams and someday your rainbow will come smiling through. No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dream that you wish will come true."
Cinderella

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it."
Source Unknown

"I teach something called The Law of Probabilities, which says the more things you try, the more likely one of them will work. The more books you read, the more likely one of them will have an answer to a question that could solve the major problems of your life.. make you wealthier, solve a health problem, whatever it might be."
Jack Canfield

"Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can."
Mary Frances Berry

"Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task."
William James

"Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing."
Friedrich von Schiller

"A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
Cardinal Newman

"Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win."
Jonathan Kozel

"It seems to me that it's actually harder to invent excuses than it is to be successful."
Jeffrey Gitomer

"Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes."
George Soros

"A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."
Alexander Pope

"Vocabulary enables us to interpret and to express. If you have a limited vocabulary, you will also have a limited vision and a limited future."
Jim Rohn

"Refuse to criticize, condemn, or complain. Instead, think and talk only about the things you really want."
Brian Tracy

"Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs."
Pearl Strachan

"The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become."
Charles du Bois

"There is only one small letter between the words CAN and CAN'T... and that one letter will T-OTALLY change your destiny."
Doug Firebaugh

"Every man dies. Not every man truly lives."
Braveheart

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."
Arthur Clarke

"Success is living up to your potential. That's all. Wake up with a smile and go after life… Live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it."
Joe Kapp

"The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery."
Janet Erskine Stuart

"A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it."
Alistair Cooke

"We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like the weather."
John Champlin Gardner, Jr.

"If I work on a certain move constantly, then finally, it doesn’t seem risky to me. The idea is that the move stays dangerous and it looks dangerous to my foes, but it is not to me. Hard work has made it easy."
Nadia Comaneci

"A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist."
Louis Nizer

"I have studied the enemy all my life…I have studied in detail the account of every one of his battles. I know exactly how he will react under any given set of circumstances. And he hasn’t the slightest idea of what I’m going to do. So when the time comes, I am going to whip him."
George S. Patton

"The truly liberated human being is not always fighting against something, but more frequently is fighting for something or someone."
Denis Waitley

"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand."
Baruch Spinoza

"You were born an original. Don't die a copy."
John Mason

"Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands."
Zig Ziglar

"You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures."
Charles C. Noble

"In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, producer and profits. People come first."
Lee Iacocca

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."
Benjamin Franklin

"Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need."
Charles Kettering

"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have no goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in a striving toward an important goal."
Maxwell Maltz

"Any mans life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day."
Booker T. Washington

"To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it."
Mother Teresa

"No matter what your past has been, you have a spotless future."
Anonymous

"If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't."
Charlie "Tremendous" Jones

"You will never change your life until you change something you do daily."
Mike Murdock

"Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger."
Lou Holtz

"Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity."
Bo Bennett

"When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way."
Wayne Dyer

"Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."
Katherine Mansfield

"If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying."
Coleman Hawkings

"Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable are the kind who do nothing."
William Feather

"It is not the critic that counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement. And at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt

"Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you."
William Arthur Ward

"The only opinion about your dream that really counts is yours. The negative comments of others merely reflect their limitations - not yours."
Cynthia Kersey

"My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces."
Wilma Rudolph

"We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them."
William Arthur Ward

"The two things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision."
Robyn Davidson

"Instead of looking for a miracle in your life, look to see if you are the miracle in someone else's life."
Nola Rohde Vollmer

"Take time to accept responsibility. Your life is exactly that - It's your life. It is created by you. You are constantly making choices, constantly creating new experiences. And although we an be affected by circumstances which can seem to be completely out of our control. Essentially, we decide the direction in which we walk."
Nicolas Watkins

"No more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty."
Napoleon Hill

"I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances."
Martha Washington

"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world ... as in being able to remake ourselves."
Mahatma Gandhi

"If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul."
Rabbi Harold Kushner

"If you want happiness for an hour - take a nap. If you want happiness for a day - go fishing. If you want happiness for a year - inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime - help someone else."
Chinese Proverb

"A goal is not the same as a desire, and this is an important distinction to make. You can have a desire you don't intend to act on. But you can't have a goal you don't intend to act on."
Tom Morris

"The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat."
Sam Snead

"No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things."
Channing Pollock

"IT only gets better when YOU get better."
Anonymous

"Don't spend your precious time asking 'Why isn't the world a better place?' It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is 'How can I make it better?' To that there is an answer."
Leo F. Buscaglia

"Love is not about finding the right person, but creating a right relationship. It's not about how much love you have in the beginning but how much love you build till the end."
Author Unknown

"If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting, but I would have to decline, for life would no longer teach me anything."
Allyson Jones

"There is no way around it. You absolutely must have fun. Without fun, there is no enthusiasm. Without enthusiasm, there is no energy. Without energy, there are only shades of gray."
Doug Hall

"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."
Dale Carnegie

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
Henry David Thoreau

"Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side."
Thomas J. Watson

"I hated every minute of the training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'"
Muhammad Ali

"Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth -- a sense of humor."
Source Unknown

"Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else."
Tom Peters

"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."
Douglas Everett

"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."
Carl Sandburg

"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."
Henry Ford

"If you know you're going to look back on today and laugh, you might as well laugh now."
Source Unknown

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."
Victor Borge

"I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it."
Jonathan Winters

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strength. When you go through hardship and decide not to surrender, that is strength."
Arnold Schwarzenegger

"The groundwork of all happiness is health."
Leigh Hunt

"Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted."
Denis Waitley

"What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't, you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you."
Lyndon B. Johnson

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."
Dale Carnegie

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed."
Booker T. Washington

"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs -- jolted by every pebble in the road."
Henry Ward Beecher

"A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something."
Frank Capra

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think."
Benjamin Disraeli

"Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you."
Stewart E. White

"The full use of your powers along lines of excellence." - Definition of "happiness"
John F. Kennedy

"To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals."
Benjamin Franklin

"The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering."
Augustine of Hippo

"We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile."
Earl Nightingale

"Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!"
Og Mandino

"Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate."
Source Unknown

"Today is life -- the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto."
Dale Carnegie

"Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large."
Mahatma Gandhi

"Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know. Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted."
George Kneller

"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most people succeed because they are determined to."
George E. Allen

"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work."
Robert Orben

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination."
Tommy Lasorda

"If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider."
Dr. Joyce Brothers

"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun."
Mary Lou Cook

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives."
Denis Waitley

"Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."
Napoleon Hill

"My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging."
Hank Aaron

"It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly."
Isaac Asimov

"Education is the ability to listen to anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."
Robert Frost

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you'll be a success."
Albert Schweitzer

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
Albert Einstein

"In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future."
Eric Hoffer

"A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus"
Martin Luther King, Jr.

"This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: We are given one life, and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind or whether to act and, in acting, to live."
Omar Bradley

"Every man dies. Not every man lives. The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the "buts" you use today."
Les Brown

"Change before you have to."
Jack Welch

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."
John Kennedy

"Look well into thyself; there is a source which will always spring up if thou wilt always search there."
Marcus Aurelius

"The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it."
Aristotle

"There are only four ways to create value (in a digital economy): information, entertainment, convenience, and savings."
Jay Walker

"To sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate."
John Glenn

"Miracles can be made, but only by sweating."
Giovanni Agnelli

"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."
Savielly Tartakower

"None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments.The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them."
Bernard Baruch

"Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with the inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent."
Sophia Loren

"If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent."
Isaac Newton

"Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!"
Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss)

"The wisest mind has something yet to learn."
George Santayana

"Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence in seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control."
Tom Landry

"Everything is always impossible before it works. That's what entrepreneurs are all about - doing what people have told them is impossible."
Hunt Greene

"Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it."
Stan Smith

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but also the parent of all the others."
Cicero

"Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better."
Pat Riley

"I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours nor amount of labor nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me."
Col. Harland Sanders

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."
Jack London

"One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."
Eleanor Roosevelt

"High expectations are the key to everything."
Sam Walton

"Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working."
Pablo Picasso

"There comes a special moment in everyone’s life, a moment for which that person was born. That special opportunity, when he seizes it, will fulfill his mission – a mission for which he is uniquely qualified. In that moment, he finds greatness. It is his finest hour."
Winston Churchill

"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."
Franklin Roosevelt

"Fix the problem, not the blame."
Japanese Proverb

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler."
Albert Einstein

"Courage and perseverance have a magic talisman, before which difficulties and obstacles vanish into air."
John Adams

"It is no use saying, “We are doing our best.” You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."
Winston Churchill

"Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you."
Arnold Palmer

"The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'"
Ludwig van Beethoven

"You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted."
Ruth E. Renkl

"Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely."
Erma Bombeck

"Watch you manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful."
Norman Vincent Peale

"Your attitude determines your altitude!"
Denis Waitley

"A great attitude does much more than turn on the light in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before we changed."
Earl Nightingale

"If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that you want to be."
Brian Tracy

"Life is part positive and part negative. Suppose you went to hear a symphony orchestra and all they played were the little, happy, high notes? Would you leave soon? Let me hear the rumble of the bass, the crash of the cymbals, and the minor keys."
Jim Rohn

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.."
Aldous Huxley

"Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things."
Lawrence Bell

"Morale and attitude are the fundamental ingredients to success"
Bud Wilkinson

"Procrastination is a favorite hiding place."
Denis Waitley

"If you don’t have a vision, then your reality will always be determined by other’s perceptions"
Melanee Addison

"Achievers can almost literally taste success because they imagine their goals in such vivid detail. Setbacks only seem to add spice and favor to the final taste of victory."
Denis Waitley

"In business, everything costs twice a much as you expect and takes three times longer than you planned."
Brian Tracy

"Get Real… People hope for friendly, but rarely get it. You can capture business with friendship gestures. You can lose business without them."
Jeffrey Gitomer

"You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart."
Thomas J. Watson, Sr.

"A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing."
Charles M Schwab

"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes."
Henry J. Kaiser

"Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction."
Anne Frank

"Here's the major problem with going on strike for more money: You cannot get rich by demand."
Jim Rohn

"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities"
J.K. Rowling

"Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it, and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even."
Ann Landers

"People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves."
Seth Godin

"Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never peril"
Sun Tzu

"I am never bored anywhere: being bored is an insult to oneself."
Jules Renard

"Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy. You might know how to read, but more importantly, what's your plan to read?"
Jim Rohn

"You can’t test your courage cautiously."
Ann Dillard

"I don't think there's any such thing as setting your goals too high. The higher you set your goals, the more you are going to work. If you don't reach them, then it's okay, just as long as you set it and then give 100% of yourself."
Dan Jansen

"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future."
Paul Boese

"It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion; the other, self-denial."
Thomas Haliburton

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving"
Albert Einstein

"You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace."
Ernie Banks

"You may delay, but time will not"
Benjamin Franklin

"Most people spend their entire lives on a fantasy island called 'Someday I'll."
Denis Waitley

"Some people procrastinate so much that all they can do is run around like firefighters all day -- putting out fires that should not have gotten started in the first place."
Nido Qubein

"The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves."
Brian Tracy

"Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place."
Abigail Van Buren

"Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character."
Howard Whitman

"Your organization will never get better unless you are willing to admit that there is something wrong with it."
Norman Schwarzkopf

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value."
Albert Einstein

"If you want to be successful, it's just this simple: Know what you're doing. Love what you're doing. And believe in what you're doing."
Will Rogers

"Concentrate all your thoughts on the task as hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus."
Alexander Graham Bell

"Wealth depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both."
Benjamin Franklin

"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity."
Albert Einstein

"Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your talent, there is only one way to obtain it-work."
Jack Nicklaus

"You can do anything in life you set your mind to, provided it is powered by your heart."
Doug Firebaugh

"It is impossible to win the great prizes in life without running risks."
Theodore Roosevelt

"Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be."
Charlie "Tremendous" Jones

"Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs."
Dr. Maxwell Maltz

"If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done."
Dale Carnegie

"Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it."
Brian Tracy

"How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most."
Stephen Covey

"Everything you need for your better future and success has already been written. And guess what? It's all available."
Jim Rohn

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."
George Bernard Shaw

"Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act."
Maxwell Maltz

"The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are."
Thomas Dreier

"Managers help people see themselves as they are; Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are."
Jim Rohn

"Good people are found not changed. Recently I read a headline that said, "We don't teach people to be nice. We simply hire nice people." Wow! What a clever short cut."
Jim Rohn

"The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not a bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly."
Jim Rohn

"Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to the ultimate goal becomes a mini-goal in itself."
Denis Waitley

"Never follow the crowd in what you do; the crowd has never produced anything of lasting quality, value or beauty."
Denis Waitley

"Chance favors those in motion."
James H. Austin

"It's good to have money and the things money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things money can't buy."
George Horace Lormier

"To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right."
Confucius

"What would you do, how would you change your life, if you learned today that you only had six months to live?"
Brian Tracy

"I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles."
Zig Ziglar

"I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening."
Larry King

"Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't."
George Lucas

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
Walt Disney

"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."
F. Scott Fitzgerald

"If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it."
Earl Wilson

"Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems."
Nelson Rockefeller

"An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he’s in. He treats failures simply as practice shots."
Charles Franklin Kettering

"The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing."
Michael E. Gerber

"Never confuse your mistakes with your value as a human being. You're a perfectly valuable, creative, worthwhile person simply because you exist. And no amount of triumphs or tribulations can ever change that. Unconditional self acceptance is the core of a peaceful mind."
St. Francis de Sales

"You can’t win unless you learn how to lose."
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

"The reason so few people are successful is no one has yet found a way for someone to sit down and slide uphill."
W. Clement Stone

"Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts."
Sren Kierkegaard

"Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire."
Dale Carnegie

"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."
Emily Dickinson

"People of character do the right thing, not because they think it will change the world but because they refuse to be changed by the world."
Michael Josephson

"Because of their courage, their lack of fear, they (creative people) are willing to make silly mistakes. The truly creative person is one who can think crazy; such a person knows full well that many of his great ideas will prove to be worthless. The creative person is flexible -- he is able to change as the situation changes, to break habits, to face indecision and changes in conditions without undue stress. He is not threatened by the unexpected as rigid, inflexible people are."
Frank Goble

"Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence."
William Blake

"In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time."
Robert Collier

"I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse."
Florence Nightingale

"Disgust and resolve are two of the great emotions that lead to change."
Jim Rohn

"There is no chance, no destiny, no fate that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."
Leonardo da Vinci

"Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him."
James Allen

"What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. Your answers lie inside of you."
Denis Waitley

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."
Douglas Adams

"Life is like riding a bike. It is impossible to maintain your balance while standing still. "
Linda Brakeall

"We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service."
Earl Nightingale

"There are 100 men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune."
J. Paul Getty

"Don't "take care", take a risk!"
Denis Waitley

"The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by obvious realities. We need men and women who can dream of things that never were."
John F. Kennedy

"Dare to risk public criticism."
Mary Kay Ash

"If you’re not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business."
Ray Kroc

"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."
Napoleon Hill

"Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time."
Marabel Morgan

"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours."
John Locke

"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are."
Malcolm S. Forbes

"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."
Jamie Paolinetti

"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."
Albert Einstein

"Of all the things that can have an effect on your future, I believe personal growth is the greatest. We can talk about sales growth, profit growth, asset growth, but all of this probably will not happen without personal growth."
Jim Rohn

"Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present."
Rudy Giuliani

"Success is good. Success with significance is even better."
Donald J. Trump

"I would rather work with five people who really believe in what they are doing rather than 500 who can’t see the point."
Patrick Dixon

"Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding."
Louis Gerstner

"Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance."
Brian Tracy

"Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level."
Dr. Joyce Brothers

"Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-brake on."
Maxwell Maltz

"Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment."
Grenville Kleiser

"Action is the real measure of intelligence."
Napoleon Hill

"Life is something like this trumpet. If you don’t put anything in it, you don’t get anything out."
W. C. Handy

"If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you."
B.B. King

"The secret to learning from mentors is first to find one and then to become one. You'll learn as much from the latter as the former."
Vic Johnson

"Persuasion is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do, and to like it."
President Eisenhower

"Your wealth can only grow to the extent that you do."
T. Harv Eker

"One of the most beautiful compensations of this life is that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid."
Franklin P. Jones

"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Imagination
Motivation
Passion
Articulation
Commitment
Tenacity
Are without question the points of proportionality that will contribute to the impact you have...
Ross Hunter

"You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there."
Edwin Louis Cole

"Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; but they are the instruments of the wise."
Samuel Lover

"A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships."
Helen Keller

"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few."
Pythagoras

"It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared."
Whitney Young, JR.

"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."
Benjamin Disraeli

"You cannot speak that which you do not know. You cannot share that which you do not feel. You cannot translate that which you do not have. And you cannot give that which you do not possess. To give it and to share it, and for it to be effective, you first need to have it. Good communication starts with good preparation."
Jim Rohn

"Practice is the price of mastery. Whatever you practice over and over again becomes a new habit of thought and performance."
Brian Tracy

"Be brief on the logic and reason portion of your presentation. There are probably about a thousand facts about an automobile, but you don't need them all to make a decision. About a half dozen will do."
Jim Rohn

"Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future."
Denis Waitley

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."
Mahatma Gandhi

"The power of one is above all things the power to believe in yourself. Often well beyond any latent ability previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, the body is simply the means it uses."
Bryce Courtenay

"There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up."
Booker T. Washington

"People try to rain on your parade, because they have no parade of their own."
Jeffrey Gitomer

"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
Calvin Coolidge

"Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs."
Malcolm Forbes

"What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere."
Ovid

"Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting."
Karl Wallenda

"There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment."
Norman Vincent Peale

"I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got."
Walter Cronkite

"Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no matter how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles."
Og Mandino

"One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life."
Edward B. Butler

"Get excited and enthusiastic about your own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away."
Denis Waitley

"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."
Colette

"Enthusiasm is the match that lights the candle of achievement."
William Arthur Ward

"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about."
Charles Kingsley

"If we seize each opportunity with enthusiasm, someone will surely notice. The "little extra" that is the automatic byproduct of enthusiasm marks the distinction between average and excellence."
Neil Eskelin

"To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Doing what we were meant to do creates fun, excitement and contentment in our lives, and invariably, in the lives of the people around us. When you're excited about something it's contagious."
Mark Victor Hansen

"Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others."
David Seabury

"You start it - you may as well start it positive, friendly, and enthusiastic -- no matter what."
Jeffrey Gitomer

"In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions."
Doug Firebaugh

"The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and executive with vigor."
Christian Bovee

"When someone does something well, applaud! You will make two people happy."
Samuel Goldwyn

"Identifying your enthusiasms requires courage and heroic creative vision. You have to believe that what you want is possible for you."
Marsha Sinetar

"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."
Eleanor Roosevelt

"When you are through changing, you are through."
Bruce Barton

"You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you are doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle."
George Lucas

"The spirit, the will to win and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur."
Vince Lombardi

"What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a world but his having gone to search for it on the faith of an opinion."
A. Robert Turgot

"We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre."
Uta Hagen

"The truth is more important than the facts."
Frank Lloyd Wright

"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul"
Joseph Addison

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."
Eleanor Roosevelt

"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."
George S. Patton

"Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children"
Charles Swindoll

"The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it."
John Ruskin

"I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity."
John D. Rockefeller

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently."
Warren Buffett

"Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision."
Ayn Rand

"I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure."
Og Mandino

"All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money."
Robert Collier

"Character, in the long-run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike."
Theodore Roosevelt

"If one wants to get out and stay out of debt he should act his wage."
Unknown

"An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied."
Arnold Glasgow

"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is SUCCESS."
Henry Ford

"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee."
Marian Wright Edelman

"One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself."
Lucille Ball

"One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind."
Robert Collier

"You’ve got to say, 'I think if I keep working at this and want it badly enough, I can have it.'"
Lee Iacocca

"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn how to surf."
Unknown

"The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams."
Og Mandino

"When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power."
Phyllis Bottome

"A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself."
Alexander Graham Bell

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will."
Vince Lombardi

"He that can have patience can have what he will."
Benjamin Franklin

"I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message."
Steve Irwin

"In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves . . . Self-discipline with all of them came first."
Harry Truman

"Remember, there’s always two ways you can say anything. Imagine the difference between: "When I look into your eyes, time stands still," and "Your face could stop a clock!" Pick your words to convey the meaning you want!"
Bob Nelson

"Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only through gambling can we take advantage of them."
Clarence Birdseye

"Any fool can make things bigger, more complex and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction."
Albert Einstein

"Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them."
Albert Einstein

"To see things in the seed, that is genius."
Lao-Tzu

"A man may learn wisdom even from a foe."
Aristophanes

"Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you."
Malcolm Cowley

"The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers."
Arthur Koestler

"One person with a commitment is worth a hundred who only have an interest."
Mary Crowley

"What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of your life."
Srully D. Blotnick

"Turn failure into fertilizer and use it to grow!"
Denis Waitley

"I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play to win."
Tom Hopkins

"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold."
Helen Keller

"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats."
B. C. Forbes

"All things are possible until they are proved impossible – and even the impossible may only be so as of now."
Pearl S. Buck

"If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.'"
Ann Landers

"The key that unlocks energy is desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited."
Earl Nightingale

"Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."
Zig Ziglar

"You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."
Zig Ziglar

"Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want. "
Jim Rohn

"People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas."
Unknown

"Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away."
Earl Nightingale

"Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you derive from what you do."
Michael Korda

"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."
Henry David Thoreau

"He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The further backward you look, the further forward you can see."
Winston Churchill

"Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one."
Thomas Carlyle

"Love is a better master than duty."
Albert Einstein

"You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things - to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals."
Edmund Hillary

"Networking is simply the cultivating of mutually beneficial, give and take, win-win relationships. It works best, however, when emphasizing the 'give' part."
Bob Burg

"What have you always wanted to do but been afraid to attempt? Whatever it is, it may be your greatest opportunity in life."
Brian Tracy

"If opportunity doesn't knock build a door."
Milton Berle

"Expand your network by one quality person a day, forever."
Mark Victor Hansen

"Network continually -- 85 percent of all jobs are filled through contacts and personal references."
Brian Tracy

"Opportunities are problems in search of solutions."
Denis Waitley

"I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. Everyone has bad breaks, but everyone also has opportunities. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on."
Samuel Goldwyn

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
Mark Twain

"The winner is the ‘chef’ who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results."
Edward de Bono

"A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well."
Jeff Bezos

"Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles; it empties today of its strength."
Lori Nannery

"A snowflake is one of the most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together!"
Unknown

"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars."
Og Mandino

"The fight is won or lost far away from any witnesses. It is won or lost behind the scenes, in the gym, and there on the road, long before I dance under these lights."
Muhammad Ali

"Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to."
Greg Anderson

"Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used."
Richard Byrd

"Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business has two basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs."
Peter Drucker

"Your marketing efforts have to be ongoing, consistent and relentless. Hi Tech, Low Tech, No Tech and sometimes totally shameless."
Patricia Fripp

"Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit."
Charles Swindoll

"I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one."
Maya Angelou

"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain cool and unruffled under all circumstances."
Thomas Jefferson

"With more success, comes greater problems along with greater ability to solve them."
Mark Victor Hansen

"Imitate until you emulate; match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness."
Mark Victor Hansen

"Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform."
Theodore White

"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing."
Oscar Wilde

"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again."
Abraham Maslow

"The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows."
Aristotle Onassis

"Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid."
Earl Nightingale

"The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side."
George Lucas

"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else."
Benjamin Franklin

"He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. "
Roy L. Smith

"There are two big forces at work, external and internal.
We have very little control over external forces such as tornados, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain.
What really matters is internal force.
How do I respond to those disasters?
Over that I have complete control."
Leo Buscaglia

"The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it’s on . . . a football field, in an army or in an office."
Dwight D. Eisenhower

"If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied."
George Westinghouse

"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater one."
William Hazlitt

"The distance between you and your dreams is often the length of a single idea."
Vic Conant

"Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience."
Benjamin Franklin

"The longer you wait to decide what you want to do, the more time you’re wasting. It’s up to you to want something so badly that your passion shows through in your actions. Your actions, not your words, will do the shouting for you."
Derek Jeter

"You don’t concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done."
Chuck Yeager

"The CEO’s role in raising a company’s corporate IQ is to establish an atmosphere that promotes knowledge sharing and collaboration."
Bill Gates

"View a negative experience in your life like you'd look at a photo negative. A single negative can create an unlimited number of positive prints."
Gerhard Gschwandtner

"As long as you think the problem is out there, that very thought is the problem."
Stephen Covey

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."
Edith Wharton

"Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
William Jennings Bryan

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
Walter Bagehot

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."
John Quincy Adams

"Don't tell people how to live, demonstrate by example."
Denis Waitley

"You will regret many things in life but you will never regret being too kind or too fair."
Brian Tracy

"The amount of satisfaction you get from life depends largely on your own ingenuity, self-sufficiency, and resourcefulness. People who wait around for life to supply their satisfaction usually find boredom instead."
Dr. William Menninger

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
Agatha Christie

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
Abraham Lincoln

"I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention."
Diane Sawyer

"Seek first to understand, then to be understood."
Stephen Covey

"I remember Prince Charles once saying that he felt his primary duty was to encourage people. I was struck then, as now, with how noble a purpose encouragement is, and how often, each day, that we have the opportunity to encourage ourselves or others."
Carol Ann Budlong

"It's a strange thing, you have said it thousands of times I am sure… you will never know what you can do until you try. However the sad truth is, that most people never try anything until they know they can do it."
Bob Proctor

"Handle challenges fast. If someone has a challenge with your product or service, take care of it right now."
Tom Hopkins

"Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference."
Mark Victor Hansen

"For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been'."
John Greenleaf Whittier

"There are those of us who are always about to live. We are waiting until things change, until there is more time, until we are less tired, until we get a promotion, until we settle down -- until, until, until. It always seems as if there is some major event that must occur in our lives before we begin living."
George Sheehan

"Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat."
Charlie Chaplin

"The one thing that matters is the effort."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience."
Henry Miller

"The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas."
Linus Pauling

"To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time."
Leonard Bernstein

"I didn’t get to where I am by thinking about it or dreaming about it. I got there by doing it."
Estee Lauder

"Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation . . . even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind."
Leonardo da Vinci

"The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you."
John E. Southard

"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."
George Washington Carver

"Nothing will work unless you do."
Maya Angelou

"Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so."
Belva Davis

"Humility is a virtue; timidity is a disease."
Jim Rohn

"Those who lack courage will always find a philosophy to justify it"
Albert Camus

"If everything seems under control you’re not going fast enough"
Mario Andretti

"The entrepreneur in us sees opportunities everywhere we look, but many people see only problems everywhere they look. The entrepreneur in us is more concerned with discriminating between opportunities than he or she is with failing to see the opportunities."
Michael Gerber

"I was just pursuing what I enjoyed doing. I mean, I was pursuing my passion."
Pierre Omidyar

"Some people take no mental exercise apart from jumping to conclusions"
Harold Acton

Death is not the greatest loss in life.
The greatest loss is what dies within us while we live.
Unknown

"When you are clear, what you want will show up in your life, and only to the extent you are clear."
Janet Attwood

"Little minds are subdued by misfortune. Great minds rise above them."
Washington Irving

"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure."
Earl Wilson

"Surround yourself with people most like the person you want to become. Stay away from anyone who can or will bring you down."
Tom Hopkins

"The truly successful person inspires others to do more than they have thought possible for themselves."
Denis Waitley

"I have learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but they will never forget how 'You' made them Feel."
Maya Angelou

"The operative assumption today is that someone, somewhere, has a better idea; and the operative compulsion is to find out who has that better idea, learn it and put it into action – fast."
Jack Welch

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
Alan Kay

"We are not retreating -- we are advancing in another direction."
General Douglas MacArthur

"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."
Mahatma Gandhi

"Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction."
Al Bernstein

"Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be."
Og Mandino

"When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams."
Les Brown

"It's very important that you find something that you care about, that you have a deep passion for, because you're going to have to devote a lot of your life to it."
George Lucas

"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."
Winston Churchill

"Glass, china and reputation are easily cracked, and never well mended."
Benjamin Franklin

"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."
Bill Bradley

"Winners never blame anybody, it’s only losers who try to blame other people for what went wrong, so never kid yourself that your failures and your weaknesses are somebody elses fault."
Ron Barassi Jr.

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
Mark Twain

"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up."
Thomas Edison

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably why so few people engage in it."
Henry Ford

"To escape criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. "
Elbert Hubbard

"Worry is the misuse of imagination"
Proverb

"If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased. "
Katherine Hepburn

"A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow"
George S. Patton

"The best thing to do behind someone’s back is to pat it."
Zig Ziglar

"If you’re standing still you’re going backwards."
Peter Doyle

"I value the friend who for me finds time on their calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult their calendar."
Robert Brault

"The idea of an overnight deliver service isn’t feasible."
Yale business profession (in 1966) referring to a thesis submitted by Fred Smith, founder of Fedex

"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."
Newt Gingrich

"To solve any problem, there are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, whom could I ask?"
Jim Rohn

"Now, if you want to get rich, you have only to produce a product or service that will give people greater value than the price you charge for it. How rich you get will be determined by the number of people to whom you can sell the product or service."
Earl Nightingale

"Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought."
Napoleon Hill

"Habits are like comfortable beds; they are easy to get into, but difficult to get out of."
Denis Waitley

"Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding."
Harvey Mackay

"Being miserable is a habit; being happy is a habit; and the choice is yours."
Tom Hopkins

"You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'."
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees."
Kenneth Kaunda

"It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him."
John Steinbeck

"The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does."
Daisy Bates

"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."
John F. Kennedy

"I am only one; but I am still one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do."
Helen Keller

"Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of ‘crackpot’ than the stigma of conformity."
Thomas J. Watson, Jr.

"Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire, and begin at once, whether you’re ready or not, to put it into action."
Napoleon Hill

"Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill."
Muhammad Ali

"I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it."
Abraham Lincoln

"Security can only be achieved through constant change, through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts."
William O. Douglas

"You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument."
Samuel Johnson

"One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before going to bed."
Bernard Baruch

"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides."
Henri-Frederic Amiel

"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win."
Sun-Tzu

"Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks."
Warren Buffet

"I had it in my heart. I believed in myself, and I had confidence. I knew how to do it, had natural talent and I pursued it."
Muhammad Ali

"I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward."
Thomas Edison

"We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you."
Oscar Wilde

"You are what you repeatedly do.
Excellence is not an event - it is a habit."
Aristotle

"Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped."
African Proverb

"One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."
Eleanor Roosevelt

"When solving a problem, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves."
Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood. Make big plans, aim high in hope and work. "
Daniel H. Burnham

"We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within."
Earl Nightingale

"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat. "I don't much care where." said Alice. "Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat.
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm."
Vince Lombardi

"Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage."
Charles Luckman

"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."
Auguste Rodin

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."
James A. Baldwin

"Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result."
Oscar Wilde

"Every achiever that I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
Dr. Robert Schuller

"The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity."
Ayn Rand

"Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience."
Clarence Day

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."
Sun Tzu

"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor."

"The history of free men is never written by chance, but by choice - their choice"
Vince Lombardi

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours."
Henry David Thoreau

"Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe."
Robert Service

"A talent is a combination of something you love a great deal, something you can lose yourself in - something that you can start at 9 in the morning, look up from your work and it's 10 o'clock at night - and something that you have a natural ability to do very well."
George Lucas

"Action is the foundational key to all success."
Pablo Picasso

"What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose."
Margaret Thatcher

"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, 'certainly I can!' - and get busy and find out how to do it."
Theodore Roosevelt

"A goal properly set is halfway reached."
Zig Ziglar

"Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use."
Charles M. Schulz

"There’s no better time than the present to be better than we were yesterday."
Gary Kelley

"Entrepreneurship is the art of finding profitable solutions to problems."
Brian Tracy

"... if we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin."
Ivan Turgenev

"Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow."
Khalil Gibran

"Ignore people who tell you 'you can't' or try to discourage you."
Jeffrey Gitomer

"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it."
Norman Schwarzkopf

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Of course inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
Groucho Marx

"Read something positive every night and listen to something helpful every morning."
Tom Hopkins

"Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, 50 books per year, and will guarantee your success."
Brian Tracy

"The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read."
Abraham Lincoln

"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life."
Walt Disney

If you always live with those who are lame, you will yourself learn to limp.
Latin Proverb

"Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi."
Oprah Winfrey

"These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves."
Gilbert Highet

"If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians."
Warren Buffett

"You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead."
George Lucas

"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use."
Earl Nightingale

"No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves."
Amelia Earhart

"Opportunity's favorite disguise is trouble."
English proverb

"In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."
Eleanor Roosevelt

"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this."
Henry David Thoreau

"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it."
Albert Einstein

"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."
Leo Tolstoy

"In a decisive set, confidence is the difference."
Chris Evert

"Learning is not compulsory, but neither is survival."
W. Edwards Deming

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
Seneca

"Marketing is getting them to the door,
Sales is getting them through the door."
Brendan Nichols

"What lies behind us
and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared
to what lies within us."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Only a mediocre person is always at his best."
W. Somerset Maugham

"We can't afford to waste tears on might-have-beens. We need to turn the tears into sweat that can take us to what can be."
Denis Waitley

"One of the marks of superior people is that they are action-oriented. One of the marks of average people is that they are talk-oriented."
Brian Tracy

"The most drastic and usually the most effective remedy for fear is direct action."
William Burnham

"Action eradicates fear. No matter what you fear, positive, self-affirming action can diminish or completely cancel that which you are fearful of."
Mark Victor Hansen

"Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all."
Norman Vincent Peale

"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've everything to do, and you've done it."
Margaret Thatcher

"He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner."
Benjamin Franklin

"When the student is ready, the master appears."
Buddhist Proverb

"An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."
Benjamin Franklin

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs - ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
Harold Thurman Whitman

"It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles."
Claude M. Bristol

"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."
Eric Hoffer

"A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline."
Harvey Mackay

"I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value."
Hermann Hesse

"Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into."
Wayne Dyer

"To the world, you may be one person, but to one person, you just might be the world."
Anonymous

"There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen."
Wayne Dyer

"Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance."
Samuel Johnson

"The strongest oak tree of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun."
Napoleon Hill

"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."
Abraham Lincoln

"This became a credo of mine... attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."
Bette Davis

"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him."
Leo Aikman

"Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself. You may be surprised at how easily this happens. Your doubts are not as powerful as your desires, unless you make them so."
Marcia Wieder

"Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way."
Eileen Caddy

"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."
Gloria Steinem

"Yes, there are times when something is legitimately not our fault. Blaming others, however, keeps us in a stuck state and is ultimately rough on our own self-esteem."
Eric Allenbaugh

"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve."
Dr. Napoleon Hill

"Be a fountain, not a drain."
Rex Hudler

"We all like to be loved, but if I made decisions based on being liked, I wouldn't be a very responsible CEO."
Malcolm Rogers

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."
Japanese Proverb

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."
Thomas Edison

"Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous -- not just to some people in some circumstances -- but to everyone all the time."
Thomas J. Watson

"Courage is being scared to death -- but saddling up anyway."
John Wayne

"Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago."
Horace Mann

"The greatest thief this world ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large."
Henry Wheeler Shaw

"Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."
Dr. Denis Waitley

"Take pride in what you do. The kind of pride I'm talking about is not the arrogant puffed-up kind; it's just the whole idea of caring -- fiercely caring."
Red Aurbach

"Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such."
Henry Miller

"It is a very funny thing about life - if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it."
W. Somerset Maugham

"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do."
Henry Ford

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these."
George Washington Carver

"What is not started today is never finished tomorrow."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Men give me credit for genius. All the genius I have lies in this: When I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night, it is before me. I explore it in all its bearings. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then ... people are pleased to call [the effort that I made] the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought."
Alexander Hamilton

"If we are ever to enjoy life, now is the time, not tomorrow or next year... Today should always be our most wonderful day."
Thomas Dreier

"Visionaries are NOT special people. The gift of true vision requires only a willingness to open your eyes to first, find the horizon. Once fixated on the horizon comes the ability to see beyond, where the true magic of life exists."
Rick Beneteau

"Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says. 'Make me feel important.' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life."
Mary Kay Ash

"All of the great achievers of the past have been visionary figures; they were men and women who projected into the future. They thought of what could be, rather than what already was, and then they moved themselves into action, to bring these things into fruition."
Bob Proctor

"If you had a friend who talked to you like you sometimes talk to yourself, would you continue to hang around with that person?"
Rob Bremer

"You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life."
James G. Bilkey

"In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later."
Harold S. Geneen

"You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life."
James G. Bilkey

"Everything comes to he who hustles while he waits."
Thomas Edison

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."
Elinor Smith

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
Thomas Edison

"You are younger today than you will ever be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow."
Norman Cousins

"It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not."
James Gordon

"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier."
Mother Teresa

"If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude."
Colin Powell

"I feel sorry for the person who can’t get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile."
Walter Chrysler

"Nearly all men can stand adversity; but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power."
Abraham Lincoln

"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself."
Henry Ward Beecher

"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win."
Roger Bannister

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
Anne Frank

"Consult not your fears, but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do."
Pope John XXIII

"The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything."
Albert Einstein

"The marvelous thing about human beings is that we are perpetually reaching for the stars. The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all."
Joyce Brothers

"A ship ought not to be held by one anchor, nor life by a single hope."
Epictetus

"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."
William Feather

"The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term is the indispensable prerequisite for success."
Brian Tracy

"Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience."
Denis Waitley

"It's not what happens to you; it's what you do about it that makes the difference."
W. Mitchell

"Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
Saint Francis

"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't."
Henry Ward Beecher

"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations."
Charles Swindoll

"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt."
William Shakespeare

"You are the only problem you will ever have and you are the only solution."
Bob Proctor

"Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable."
Denis Waitley

"Motivation gets you going but habit gets you there."
Zig Ziglar

"Either you run the day or the day runs you."
Jim Rohn

"Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming."
Jim Rohn

"Real financial security is having complete confidence in generating the income you need regardless of your employment situation."
Anonymous

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
Will Rogers

"Growth is not steady, forward, upward progression. It is instead a switchback trail; three steps forward, two back, one around the bushes, and a few simply standing, before another forward leap."
Dorothy Corkville Briggs

"Triumph is just "umph" added to try."
Unknown

"And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
Anais Nin

"Age is something that doesn't matter unless you are cheese."
Billie Burke

"Greatness is not where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it but sail we must, and not drift, nor lie at anchor."
Oliver Wendall Holmes

"The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself."
Mark Caine

"Ability is what you're capable of doing.
Motivation determines what you do.
Attitude determines how well you do it."
Lou Holtz

"The best index to a person's character is (1) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (2) how he treats people who can't fight back."
Abigail van Buren

"Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul."
Douglas McArthur

"The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time."
Leo Kennedy

"I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition."
Martha Washington

"Everything works out right in the end. If things are not working right, it isn't the end yet. Don't let it bother you, relax and keep on going."
Michael C. Muhammad

"Strive to make something of yourself, then strive to make the most of yourself."
Alexander Crummell

"The only real failure in life is the failure to try."
Anonymous

"Success is not permanent. The same is also true of failure."
Dell Crossword

"When you are down on your back, if you can look up, you can get up."
Les Brown

"Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war."
Donald J. Trump

"Watch, listen, and learn. You can't know it all yourself.. anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity."
Donald J. Trump

"What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate. "
Donald J. Trump

"Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make."
Donald J. Trump

"Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive."
Donald J. Trump

"Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game."
Donald J. Trump

"It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate. "
Donald J. Trump

"I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement."
Donald J. Trump

"I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is."
Donald J. Trump

"I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it."
Donald J. Trump

"Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make."
Donald J. Trump

"As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big."
Donald J. Trump

"Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken."
Donald J. Trump

"The best way to have an edge is to live on one."
Donald J. Trump

"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again."
Og Mandino

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little."
Edmund Burke

"Failures are divided into two classes - those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought."
John Charles Salak

"Remember, you only have to succeed the last time."
Brian Tracy

"He is foolish to blame the sea who is shipwrecked twice."
Publilius Syrus

"One’s best success comes after his greatest disappointments."
Henry Ward Beecher

"The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a top-level job a man who was not making mistakes...otherwise he is sure to be mediocre."
Peter Drucker

"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."
Henry Ford

"The problem with most failing businesses is not that their owners don’t know enough about finance, marketing, management, and operations -- they don’t, but those things are easy enough to learn -- but that they spend their time and energy defending what they think they know. My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren’t so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more."
Michael Gerber

"No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves."
Dwight Eisenhower

"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."
George E. Woodberry

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try."
Beverly Sills

"Success is never ending: failure is never final."
Robert H. Schuller

"Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day."
Jim Rohn

"I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy."
Anthony (Tony) Robbins

"Because a fellow has failed once or twice, or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage — and that's the same thing."
George Horace Lorimer

"Failure is a prerequisite for great success.If you want to succeed faster,double your rate of failure."
Brian Tracy

"The probability that we may fail in struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just"
Abraham Lincoln

"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."
Abraham Lincoln

"Failure is the foundation of success, and the means by which it is achieved."
Lao Tzu

"There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose."
Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard

"When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal."
Napoleon Hill

"The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail."
Napoleon Hill

"Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel."
Napoleon Hill

"No man is ever whipped, until he quits -- in his own mind."
Napoleon Hill

"Before success comes in any man's life he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps, some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do."
Napoleon Hill

"Keep these concepts in mind: You've failed many times, although you don't remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim. . . . Don't worry about failure. My suggestion to each of you: Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try."
Sherman Finesilver

"The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: "I did not have time."
Franklin Field

"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do."
Bob Dylan

"The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes."
John Dewey

"Most people achieved their greatest success one step beyond what looked like their greatest failure."
Brian Tracy

"Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it."
Josephus Daniels

"The only real failure in life is one not learned from."
Anthony J. D'Angelo

"In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time."
Anthony J. D'Angelo

"I don't know the key to success but the key to failure is to try to please everyone."
Bill William Henry Cosby

"Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure."
Johnetta Cole

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."
Truman Capote

"Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned."
Struther Burt

"A man may fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else."
John Burroughs

"I'd rather be a failure in something that I love than a success in something that I hate."
George Burns

"A minute’s success pays the failure for years."
Robert Browning

“Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have."
Louis E. Boone

“It is not failure itself that holds you back;it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you."
Brian Tracy

“When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."
Alexander Graham Bell

“Failure is the path of least resistance."
Sir James Matthew Barrie

“There are no failures — only feedback."
R. Bandler

“Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final."
Roger Ward Babson

“Failure is success if we learn from it."
Malcom S. Forbes

“Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more."
A. Lou Vickery

“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."
Walt Disney

“It's not the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference."
Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant

“Ability is what you’re capable of doing, Motivation determines what you do, Attitude determines how well you do it."
Unknown

“Most people spend their time longing for results... without undertaking efforts to achieve them."
Anonymous

"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
Michael Jordan

"We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have."
Fredrick Koeing

"Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps."
David Lloyd George

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A year from now you may wish you had started today."
Karen Lamb

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Albert Einstein

"I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen."
Frank Lloyd Wright

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
Albert Einstein

"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds."
Edward Abbey

"Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success."
Denis Waitley

"A successful man is one who can build a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him."
David Brinkley

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."
Author Unknown

"I believe how I act today will affect the way I am tomorrow."
Katherine Hepburn

"Act as if what you do makes a difference...it does."
William James

"We are all self made - only the successful are prepared to admit it."
Ona Brown

"The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it."
Goethe

"Whatever you have, spend less."
Samuel Johnson

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
Oscar Wilde

"Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a mental state."
Anonymous

"People only repeat behaviours that work."
Anonymous

"Character is not how you behave when things are going well."
Anonymous

"Practice the Golden Rule in selling: 'Sell unto others as you would have them sell unto you."
Brian Tracy

"Here's the rock, paper, scissors game of selling: Relationship is more powerful than price. Relationship is more powerful than delivery. Relationship is more powerful than quality. Relationship is more powerful than service."
Jeffrey Gitomer

"Practice is just as valuable as a sale. The sale will make you a living; the skill will make you a fortune."
Jim Rohn

"Life is a series of sales situations, and the answer is NO if you don't ask."
Patricia Fripp

"So many dreams at first seem impossible. And then they seem improbable. And then when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable."
Christopher Reeve

"Be courageous...it's one of the only places left uncrowded."
Anita Roddick

"I don’t like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves."
Joe Louis

"Learn from the mistakes of others.....you can never live long enough to make them all yourself."
John Luther

"If you think that something small cannot make a difference.....try going to sleep with a mosquito in the room."
Unknown

"Until you value yourself.....you will not value your time; until you value your time.....you will not do anything with it."
M. Scott Peck, Author

"A closed mind is like a closed book.....just another block of wood."
Chinese Proverb

“When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn’t want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work."
George Bernard Shaw

“Anxiety is fear of oneself."
Wilhelm Stekel

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

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling.....but in rising every time we fall."
Confucius

"Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday."
Unknown

"Do just once what others say you can't...and you will never pay attention to their limitations again."
James R. Cook

"Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile...initially scared me to death."
Betty Bender

"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd."
James Crook

"We are all born under the same sky - but we all don't have the same horizon."
Konrad Adenauer

"I believe in the imagination...what I cannot see is infinitely more important that what I can see."
Duane Michals

"The world stands aside for he who knows where he is going."
Ancient Proverb

"Take risks...you can't fall off the bottom."
Barbara Proctor

“To get what you want, do what it takes"
Unknown

"Nothing is a waste of time...if you use the experience wisely."
Rodin

"The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything...and it works."
William Strong

Parable of the Cautious Man
There was a very cautious man,
who never laughed or cried.
He never risked, he never lost,
he never won nor tried.
And when he one day passed away,
his insurance was denied,
For since he never really lived,
they claimed he never died.


"Your greatest strength is knowing your weaknesses."
Jack Robson

"The best helping hand that you will ever receive...is the one at the end of your own arm."
Fred Dehner

"Life is a mirror...if you frown at it, it frowns back - if you smile, it returns the greeting."
William Makepeace Thackeray

"You will be in five years the sum total of the books you read and the people you are around."
Charlie "Tremendous" Jones

"Don’t confuse charisma with a loud voice."
Harvey Mackay

"The supreme accomplishment...is to blur the line between work and play."
Arnold Toynbee

"You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing."
Arthur Ashe, Professional Tennis Player

"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."
President Woodrow Wilson - 28th President of The United States

"Character is who you are when no one else is watching."
Anonymous

"There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet."
William Frederick Halsey, Jr.

"The person who says it cannot be done...should not interrupt the person doing it."
Chinese Proverb

"Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears."
Arthur Koestler

"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."
Benjamin Franklin

"I kept six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who."
Rudyard Kipling

"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."
Derek Bok

"100% of the shots you don't take don't go in."
Wayne Gretzky

"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
M.K. Gandhi

"You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want."
Zig Ziglar

"Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance."
Samuel Johnson

"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."
Peter F. Drucker

"Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results."
George S. Patton

"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
Dwight Eisenhower

"A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."
Bob Dylan

"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."
Sir Winston Churchill

"I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom."
General George S. Patton

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."
Woody Allen

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
Bill Cosby

"It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final."
Roger Babson

"Life is a grindstone. But whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us."
L. Thomas Holdcraft

"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem."
Theodore Rubin

"Let us never negotiate out of fear...but let us never fear to negotiate."
John F. Kennedy

"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune."
Jim Rohn

"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it."
Lena Horne

"Experience is what you get...when you don't get what you want."
Dan Stanford

"Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement...all success... all achievement in real life grows."
Ben Stein

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
Albert Einstein

"The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch."
Jim Rohn

“The difference between genius and stupidity...is that genius has its limits."
Albert Einstein

"As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent."
Marilyn vos Savant

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
Douglas Adams

"A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you."
Bob Proctor

"Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on."
Norman Vincent Peale

"Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees."
J. Willard Marriott

"You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing."
J. Willard Marriott

"Difficulties come not to obstruct, but to instruct."
John Mcgrath

“The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy."
Jim Rohn

"People who soar are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change."
Charles R. Swindoll

"Only when you've been in the deepest valley can you know how magnificent it is to be atop the highest mountain. "
President Richard M. Nixon

"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business"
Henry Ford

"We need men who can dream of things that never were"
John F. Kennedy

"Drive thy business or it will drive thee"
Benjamin Franklin

"I don't want to live--I want to love first, and live incidentally."
Zelda Fitzgerald

"If there ever comes a day When we can't be together keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever."
Winnie The Pooh

"Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that."
Michael Leunig

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."
Aristotle

"The best opportunities in life are the ones we create. Goal setting provides for you the opportunity to create an extraordinary life."
Gary Ryan Blair

"Embrace change. It's going to happen whether you like it or not."
Odette Pollar

"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."
John Steinbeck

"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."
James Dean

"The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing."
Isaac Asimov

"Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still."
Chinese Proverb

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly."
Richard Bach

"Life is not so much a matter of 'finding' ourselves as it is a matter of making ourselves."
Alan Loy McGinnis

"I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house."
Zsa Zsa Gabor

"In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing."
Theodore Roosevelt

"A man, who does not make a choice, makes a choice."
Jewish Folk Saying

"Let me tell you the secret that has lead me to my goal...my strength lies solely in my tenacity."
Louis Pastaur

"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."
Eleanor Roosevelt

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
Eleanor Roosevelt

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
Eleanor Roosevelt

"One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else."
Eleanor Roosevelt

"Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."
Eleanor Roosevelt

"It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself."
Eleanor Roosevelt

"I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision."
Eleanor Roosevelt

"I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on."
Eleanor Roosevelt

"Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
Eleanor Roosevelt

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't."
Eleanor Roosevelt

"A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water."
Eleanor Roosevelt

"Time is the best-kept secret of the rich."
Jim Rohn

"I am easily satisfied...with the very best."
Sir Winston Churchill

"You can dream, create, design, and build the most wonderful idea in the world, but it requires people...to make the dream a reality."
Walt Disney

"Money never starts an idea...it is the idea that starts the money."
W.J. Cameron

"Earn as much money as you possibly can and as quickly as you can. The sooner you get money out of the way, the sooner you will be able to get to the rest of your problems in style."
Jim Rohn

"Lifestyle is the art of discovering ways to live uniquely."
Jim Rohn

"Accuracy builds credibility."
Jim Rohn

"The five most important words a leader can speak are: "I am proud of you." The four most important are: "What is your opinion?" The three most important are: "If you please." The two most important are: "Thank You." And the most important single word of all is: "You!"
Denis Waitley

"It's not your talent or the gifted birth, It's not your bank book that determines worth, It isn't in your gender or the color of your skin, It's your attitude that lets you win!"
Denis Waitley

"It is better to earn the trust and respect of one of your children, than to gain notoriety and adulation of the masses."
Denis Waitley

"It is not what you get that makes you successful, it is what you are continuing to do with what you've got."
Denis Waitley

"If you don't know where you're going, it doesn't matter if your alarm doesn't go off in the morning."
Denis Waitley

"It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you're not."
Denis Waitley

"Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad."
Denis Waitley

"Giant oaks do grow from little acorns; but first you must have an acorn!"
Denis Waitley

"Everything that is past is either a learning experience to grow on, a beautiful memory to reflect on, or a motivating factor to act upon."
Denis Waitley

"Life is not accountable to us for meaning; we are accountable to life!"
Denis Waitley

"Stop stewing and start doing! Take action TNT. Today, Not Tomorrow."
Denis Waitley

"A job is something you do for money. A career is something you do because you have an inner calling to do it. You want to do it. You love doing it. You're excited when you do it. And you'd do it even if you were paid nothing beyond food and the basics. You'd do it because it's your life."
Denis Waitley

"Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map."
Wayne Calloway

"May we always have old memories...and young hopes."
Chinese Proverb

"Take time to think...you can do more work in your head than you can with your feet!"
Anonymous

"The difficulties of life are intended to make us better...not bitter."
Mandie Ellingson

"Many of us know how to say nothing...few of us know when."
Anonymous

"We all know a variety of ways to make a living. What's even more fascinating is figuring out ways to make a fortune."
Jim Rohn

"Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune."
Jim Rohn

"Showing a profit means touching something and leaving it better than you found it."
Jim Rohn

"Focus always precedes success."
Denis Waitley

"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof."
John Kenneth Galbraith

"Fascination is one step beyond interest. Interested people want to know if it works. Fascinated people want to learn how it works."
Jim Rohn

"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing . . . that's why we recommend it daily."
Zig Ziglar

"Your attitude is either the lock on or key to your door of success.It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you're not."
Denis Waitley

"If you let other people do it for you, they will do it to you"
Robert Anthony

"Paralyze resistance with persistence."
Woody Hayes

"Footprints in the sand of time...were not made by sitting down."
Anonymous

"How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone"
Coco Chanel

"The difference between being in a rut and a grave is the depth."
Gerald Burrill

"It is much easier to be critical than to be correct"
Benjamin Disraeli

"It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago."
Jim Bishop

"Marriage is not total agreement. It is looking in the same direction together. Emperors are overthrown. Empowerers are revered."
Denis Waitley

"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."
Decca Recording, rejecting the Beatles in 1962

"The greatest discovery of my generation...is that man can alter his life by simply changing his attitude of mind."
William James

"Here's what is exciting about sharing ideas with others: If you share a new idea with ten people, they get to hear it once and you get to hear it ten times."
Jim Rohn

"Sharing makes you bigger than you are. The more you pour out, the more life will be able to pour in."
Jim Rohn

"There are two parts to influence: First, influence is powerful; and second, influence is subtle. You wouldn't let someone push you off course, but you might let someone nudge you off course and not even realize it."
Jim Rohn

"You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay?"
Jim Rohn

"All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about."
Charles Kingsley

"I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot...and missed. I have failed over and over again in my life ...and that is why... I succeed."
Michael Jordan

"Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best...and that might as well be you."
Booker T. Washington

"The quality of a person's life...is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence."
Bishop Gore

"Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality."
Theodor Reik

"How long should you try? Until."
Jim Rohn

"Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure."
Jim Rohn

"No pressure...no diamonds."
Mary Case

"Those on top of the mountain...did not fall there."
Unknown

"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?" "What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?" "I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet. Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing", he said.
Pooh & Piglet

"Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will...but remember it didn't work for the rabbit."
R.E. Shay

"Loving can cost a lot, but not loving always costs more...."
Merle Shain

"We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons."
Jim Rohn

"Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a mental state."
Mike Todd

"Average people look for ways of getting away with it; successful people look for ways of getting on with it."
Jim Rohn

"Whatever you have, spend less."
Samuel Johnson

"It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles."
Muriel Spark

"Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know."
William Saroyan

"You can be either a hunter or a fisher. In terms of influence, most people try to hunt. They're going to come at you, they're going to influence, they're going to persuade. What does an animal do when it's being hunted? It runs! Many salespeople say, 'I just can't close the deal.' Stop hunting!What happens when you fish? You put out attractive bait, and then the animal comes to you."
Chris Widener

"More people succeed with great purpose...rather than with great talent."
Billy Sunday

"No matter what business we're in...the goal is quality...and the challenge is reaching it."
Fred Smith

"Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible...before they were done."
Louis Brandeis

"In the long run...we only hit what we aim at."
Henry David Thoreau

"Perhaps the most important vision of all is to develop a sense of self, a sense of your own destiny, a sense of your unique mission and role in life, a sense of purpose and meaning."
Stephen Covey

“Kites fly highest against the wind – not with it."
Bruce Davis

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life...by simply changing his attitude of mind."
William James

"Anyone who dares to waste one hour of life...has not discovered the value of life."
Charles Darwin

"Your imagination is the true magic carpet."
Norman Vincent Peale

"Don’t confuse charisma with a loud voice."
Harvey Mackay

"I dream for a living."
Steven Spielberg

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort....but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
Martin Luther King Jr.

"Success or failure in business is caused more by mental attitude.... than by mental capacity."
Walter Dill Scott

"Good luck....is another name for tenacity of purpose."
Anonymous

"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."
Albert Schweitzer

"The average person puts only 25% of his energy into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%."
Andrew Carnegie

"Life is a mirror...if you frown at it, it frowns back - if you smile, it returns the greeting."
William Makepeace Thackeray

"Sales people should take lessons from their kids. What does the word "no" mean to a child? almost nothing."
Jim Rohn

"You've got to ask for your opportunities! Asking is... in my opinion... the world's most powerful, and neglected, secret to success and happiness."
Percy Ross

"To succeed in sales, simply talk to lots of people every day. And here's what's exciting there are lots of people!"
Jim Rohn

"If the love of what you're doing exceeds the labor of doing it...success is inevitable."
Bob Beers

"The best helping hand that you will ever receive...is the one at the end of your own arm."
Fred Dehner

"Decisions are like crying babies in church: Both should be carried out quickly."
John Maxwell

"Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you."
Jim Rohn

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
Albert Einstein

"There are risks and costs to a program of action...but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction."
John F. Kennedy

"Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations...I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."
Louisa May Alcott

"The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything...and it works."
William Strong

"The world stands aside for he who knows where he is going."
Ancient Proverb

"The difference between a stumbling block and a stepping stone is how you use them."
Unknown

"Remember, there's plenty of room at the top, but not enough to sit down."
Zig Ziglar

"Success requires three bones...wishbone, backbone and funnybone."
Kobi Yamada

"It isn't what the book costs; it's what it will cost if you don't read it."
Jim Rohn

"Most homes valued at over $750,000 have a library. That should tell us something."
Jim Rohn

"Nothing is a waste of time...if you use the experience wisely."
Rodin

"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand...as in what direction we are moving."
Goethe

"Live out of your imagination, not your history."
Stephen R. Covey

“Thoughts determine what you want, actions determine what you get."
W Steven Brown

"Take risks...you can't fall of the bottom."
Barbara Proctor

"Throw your heart over the bars...and your body will follow."
Veteran Trapeze Performer

"Take a chance! All life is a chance...the person who goes the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare...the 'sure' thing boat never gets far from shore."
Dale Carnegie

"I believe in the imagination...what I cannot see is infinitely more important that what I can see."
Duane Michals

"Fascination is one step beyond interest. Interested people want to know if it works. Fascinated people want to learn how it works."
Jim Rohn

"The difficulties of life are intended to make us better...not bitter."
Mandie Ellingson

"Take time to think...you can do more work in your head than you can with your feet!"
Anonymous

“Two of life's greatest tragedies are: Never to have had a great mission in life, and to have fully reached it so there is no challenge remaining."
Denis Waitley

"I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate."
George Burns

"If you don't risk anything, you risk even more. "
Erica Jong

"The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it, put your whole soul into it -- every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have."
John D. Rockefeller III

"If you wish to find, you must search. Rarely does a good idea interrupt you."
Jim Rohn

"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves." Thomas A. Edison

"It's always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth."
Malcolm Forbes

"I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief."
Gerry Spence

"Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know."
Jim Rohn

"You will never stub your toe by standing still, but the faster you go, the more chance you have of getting somewhere!"
Charles Kettering

"The best opportunities in life are the ones we create. Goal setting provides for you the opportunity to create an extraordinary life."
Gary Ryan Blair

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.
Eleanor Roosevelt

"Life is not so much a matter of 'finding' ourselves as it is a matter of making ourselves."
Alan Loy McGinnis

"The great thing about knowing you're wrong is the moment you realize it, you're right."
Vanna Bonta

"No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master."
Ben Jonson

"You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life."
J. Krishnamurti

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."
Albert Einstein

"Worry is like a rocking chair. It uses up all your energy, but where does it get you?"
Bob Gass

"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else."
Henry Ward Beecher

"The difference between a goal and a dream is the written word."
Gene Donohue

"Great minds have purposes; others have wishes."
Washington Irving

"Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts."
Nikki Giovanni

"Life is not a problem to be solved, nor a question to be answered. Life is a mystery to be experienced."
Alan Watts

The only courage you will need is the courage to live the life you are meant to.
Oprah Winfrey

"Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action."
William James

"What worries you, masters you."
Haddon W. Robinson

"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."
Oliver Wendell Holmes

"If you always give, you will always have"
Chinese Proverb

"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."
Thomas H. Huxley

"The beginning is the half of every action."
Greek Proverb

"Obstacles traversed, are merely podiums for achievement."
Peter Monet

"Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments."
Kevin Costner

"Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Be bold, be daring and don't be afraid to raise the roof. Even if you just nailed one down."
Marlene Ferber

"Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd."
I Ching

"Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders. Abraham Lincoln once said, "Since I will be no one's slave, I will be no one's master.""
Jim Rohn

"If you want to see something done, just tell some human beings it can't be done. Make it known that it's impossible to fly to the moon, or run 100 meters in 9.9 seconds, or solve Fermat's Last Theorem. Remind the world that no one has ever hit 62 home runs in a season or stuffed 18 people into a Volkswagen. Dangle the undoable in front of the world. Then, consider it done."
Merrill Lynch, advertisement

"The twin killers of success are impatience and greed."
Jim Rohn

"Without promotion, something terrible happens, NOTHING!"
P.T. Barnum

"When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself."
Isak Dinesen (pseudonym for Karen Blixen)

"Let us realize that the privilege to work is a gift, that power to work is a blessing, that love of work is success."
David O. McKay

"My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future."
Jim Rohn

When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it. Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot. Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
Jim Rohn

"Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away."
Tom Clancy

"Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced. Even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it. "
John Keats

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying...that he is wiser today than yesterday.
Jonathan Swift

"There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."
Nelson Mandela

Don't wish it was easier; wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems; wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges; wish for more wisdom. You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills.
Jim Rohn

"Don't mistake movement for achievement. It's easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?"
Jim Rohn

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.
Jim Rohn

"Our duty is to proceed...as if limits to our ability do not exist."
Teilhard de Chardin

"To get profit without risk...experience without danger...and reward without work...is as impossible as it is to live without being born."
A.P. Gouthey

"All humanity is divided into three classes...those who are immovable...those who are movable...and those who move!"
Benjamin Franklin

"A good plan vigorously executed right now...is far better than a perfect plan executed next week."
General George Patton

"You gain strength...courage...and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face...you must do the thing you cannot do."
Eleanor Roosevelt

"85 percent of the time I try something I fail"
Bill Gates

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Unknown

"Time is the best-kept secret of the rich."
Jim Rohn

"Let me tell you the secret that has lead me to my goal...my strength lies solely in my tenacity."
Louis Pastaur

"In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing."
Theodore Roosevelt

"Life is not so much a matter of 'finding' ourselves as it is a matter of making ourselves."
Alan Loy McGinnis

Success is getting what you want
Happiness is wanting what you get
Unknown