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Quotes for Life.....

 

He can inspire a group only if he himself is filled with confidence and hope of success.
Floyd V. Filson

 

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
George Herbert

 

Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too.
Joseph Storey

 

Knowledge-based innovation has the longest lead time of all innovations.

Peter Drucker, Author, Management Advisor
 

 

To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.

Mother Teresa, Missionary
 

 

Noting in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood.

Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Marie Curie, Physicist
 

 

All great achievements require time.

Maya Angelou, Poet


 

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything

without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Robert Frost, Poet
 

 

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity,

no matter how impressive their other talents.

Andrew Carnegie, Industrialist
 

 

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.

Seneca

 

There are obviously two educations.

One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

James Truslow Adams

 

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

 

Conductors of great symphony orchestras do not play every musical instrument;

yet through leadership the ultimate production

is an expressive and unified combination of tones.
Thomas D. Bailey

 

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life.

Be happy now.

Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future.

Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, 

whether it's at work or with your family.

Every minute should  be enjoyed and savored.

Earl Nightingale

 

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

Wayne Dyer

 

The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.

Mark Twain

The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

Bette Davis, Actress
 

 

The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.

Thomas Edison, Inventor
 

 

The world is full of unsuccessful men of talent.

Ray Kroc, McDonald’s Founder
 

 

Don’t fight forces – use them.

Buckminster Fuller, Inventor, Philosopher
 

 

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Mahatma Gandhi

 

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Theodore Roosevelt

 

When you give someone a book, you don't give him just paper, ink and glue.

You give him the possibility of a whole new life.

Christopher Morley

 

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Golda Meir

 

The sound of freedom is the clash of ideas.

Lady Bird Johnson

 

We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon—

instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie

 

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
Margaret Bonnano

 

When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca

 

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
Walter Savage Landor

 

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.
Washington Irving

 

There is much satisfaction in work well done,

but there can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.

Victor Robinsoll

 

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

When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote.

I make a decision.

Ronald Reagan

 

Slow down and enjoy life.

It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast,

you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

 

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

G. K. Chesterton, Writer
 

The moment you let avoiding failure become your motivator,

you’re down the path of inactivity.

Roberto Goizueta, Coca-Cola CEO


 

The work never is done while the power to work remains.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., US Supreme Court Justice
 

 

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Bernard Baruch, Financier
 

 

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Aristotle 

 

 

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman,

before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams, 6th US president
 

 

Do not go where the path may lead,

go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Reading is a means of thinking with another person’s mind;

it forces you to stretch your own.

Charles Scribner Jr., Publisher
 

 

Catch a passion for helping others and a richer life will come back to you!

William H. Danforth, founder of Ralston Purina and author of "I Dare You"

 

Patience and time do more than strength and passion.

La Fontaine

 

 

Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
Peter Drucker, Educator
 

 

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you.

Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

Alice Walker, Author
 

 

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those

who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

Bruce Barton

 

Water is fluid, soft, and yielding.

But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield.

As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome

whatever is rigid and hard.

This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.

Lao-Tzu

 

The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere.

They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.

Anotole France

 

There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude -- confidence in self.

Seneca

 

Remember that your goal is not to be the richest person in the cemetery.

Make the most of today!

Hugh Tassey

 

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

 

Nearly all men can stand adversity,

but if you want to test a man’s character,

give him power.

Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President
 

 

You’ve got to get to the stage in life where going for it

is more important than winning or losing.

Arthur Ashe, Tennis Player
 

 

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

Plato, Philosopher
 

 

We must dare to think “unthinkable” thoughts.

We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities

that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.

We must learn to welcome and not fear the voices of dissent.

J. William Fulbright, educator, legislator
 

 

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, Aviator
 

 

Luck is not chance; it’s toil.

Fortune’s expensive smile is earned.

Emily Dickinson, Poet
 

 

A company is an organic, living breathing thing,

not just an income sheet and balance sheet.

You have to lead it with that in mind.

Carly Fiorina, former Hewlett-Packard Chairman and Chief Executive
 

 

Trials, temptations, disappointments--

all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly.

They not only test the fiber of a character, but strengthen it.

Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy.

Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler

and stronger than it was before.

James Buckham

 

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

Aristotle

 

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

 

Results!

Why man, I have gotten a lot of results.

I know several thousand things that won't work.

Thomas Alva Edison

 

As long as you keep a person down,

some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,

so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Marian Anderson

 

 

Don't say you don't have enough time.

You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to

Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci,

Thomas Jefferson and Albert Einstein.

H. Jackson Brown

 

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

 

High expectations are the key to everything.

Sam Walton

 

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men of talent.

Genius will not . . . the world is full of educated derelicts.

Calvin Coolidge, 30th US President
 

 

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, boxer
 

 

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved.

He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Ralph Lauren, Clothing Designer and Businessman
 

 

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence,

regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

Vince Lombardi

 

If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Vince Lombardi, Football Coach

 

You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.

H. Norman Schwarzkopf, US Army General
 

 

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, Author
 

 

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Bill Gates, Microsoft Inc. Company Founder and Chairman
 

 

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
Warren Buffett, Financier
 

 

I do not try to dance better than anyone else.

I only try to dance better than myself.

Mikhail Baryshnikov, ballet dancer
 

 

Begin with praise and honest appreciation.

Call attention to people’s mistakes indirectly.

Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person.

Ask questions instead of giving direct orders . . . Make the fault easy to correct.

Make the other person happy about doing what you suggest.

Dale Carnegie, author, speaker
 

 

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Marie Curie, physicist
 

 

To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova, prima ballerina
 

 

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Let us move forward with strong and active faith.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US president
 

 

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved

by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.

We need men who can dream of things that never were.

John F. Kennedy, 35th US president
 

 

Freedom is actually a bigger game than power.

Power is about what you can control.

Freedom is about what you can unleash.

Harriet Rubin

 

In the final analysis there is no solution to man's progress but the day's honest work,

the day's honest decisions, the day's generous utterances and the day's good deed.

Clare Booth Luce

 

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

William Arthur Ward

 

Principle--particularly moral principle--

can never be a weathervane,

spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of expediency.

Moral principle is a compass forever fixed and forever true.

Edward R. Lyman

 

What saves a man is to take a step.

Then another step.

It is always the same step, but you have to take it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, aviator, writer
 

 

An idea can turn into dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

William Bernbach, advertising executive
 

 

Never assume the obvious is true.

William Safire, Journalist
 

 

Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness.

Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
 

Scott Adams
 

 

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

W. C. Fields, Actor and Comedian
 

 

You can end half your troubles immediately by no

longer permitting people to tell you what you want.

Vernon Howard

 

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand.

The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

Alexander Graham Bell

 

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

John Steinbeck

 

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

Malcolm S. Forbes, Publisher
 

 

Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something,

without feeling the necessity to prove someone else is wrong.

Sydney J. Harris

 

It is the blessing of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

The past cannot be regained, although we can learn from it;

the future is not yet ours even though we must plan for it.

Time is now. We have only today.

Charles Hummell

 

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Gagehot

 

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Edward Gibbson
 

The time is always right to do the right thing.
Martin Luther King Jr.
 

 

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

Freya Stark

 

The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.

unknown

 

The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.
Ferdinand Foch, marshal of France
 

 

Do what you can with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US president
 

 

Be not afraid of life.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James, psychologist
 

 

As long as you’re going to think anyway, think big.

 Donald Trump, real estate executive
 

 

To know is nothing at all. To imagine is everything.

Anatole France  

 

The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year.

It is that we should have a new soul. 

G.K. Chesterton

 

Start living now.

Stop saving the good china for that special occasion.

Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes.

Every day you are alive is a special occasion.

Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.

Mary Manin Morrissey

 

Don't worry about whether or not I am now happy.

Today is only chapter one.

We have yet to write the book.

Lois Wyse

 

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true,

there would be little hope for advance.

Orville Wright

 

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

Thomas Carlyle

 

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed

three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

Ted Williams

 

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

 

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet, philosopher
 

 

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.

The world owes you nothing, it was here first.

Mark Twain

 

Reading without reflection is like eating without digesting.

Edmund Burke
 

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

James Michener

 

Often the difference between a successful man and

a failure is not one’s better abilities or ideas,

but the courage one has to bet on his ideas,

to take a calculated risk and to act.

Maxwell Maltz
 

Strength does not come from physical capability. It comes from an indomitable will.

Gandhi
 

I learned more from the one restaurant that didn’t work than from all the ones that were successes. Wolfgang Puck, chef, restaurateur
 

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright
 

The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery.

You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources and

what it takes to match them to the challenge.

Arnold Palmer
 

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees

his goals steadily and aims for it unswervingly.

Cecil B. DeMille

 

The older we get the more we realize that service to others is the only way to stay happy.

If we do nothing to benefit others, we will do nothing to benefit ourselves.

Carl Holmes
 

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Truman Capote, author

 

Honor lies in honest toil.

Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th US president
 

If a team is to reach its potential,

each player must be willing to subordinate

his personal goals to the good of the team.

Bud Wilkinson, football coach
 

When the leader is morally weak and his discipline not strict,

when his instructions and guidance are not enlightened,

when there are no consistent rules,

neighboring rulers will take advantage of this.

Sun Tzu, philosopher
 

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward.

Igor Sikorsky
 

There are no hopeless situations; there are only people who have grown hopeless about them.

Clare Boothe
 

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, aviation executive
 

 

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
Epictetus

 

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Peter F. Drucker

 

"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk."
Doug Larson

 

Some of us are timid.

We think we have something to lose, so we don’t try for the next hill.

Maya Angelou
 

 

I do not try to dance better than anyone else.

I only try to dance better than myself.

Mikhail Baryshnikov, ballet dancer
 

 

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself.

You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows.

There is no code of conduct to help beginners.

That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive,

go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

Sophia Loren, actress

 

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine

what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Lou Holtz, football coach

 

Trust your hunches.

They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

Dr. Joyce Brothers

 

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Oliver Goldsmith

 

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward.

They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Goethe

 

If you want one year of prosperity, grow grain.

If you want ten years of prosperity, grow trees.

If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people.

Chinese Proverb

 

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Weak desire brings weak results.

Napoleon Hill

 

When you follow your bliss doors will open where you would

not have thought there would be doors;

and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.

Joseph Campbell

 

The only person who cannot be helped is that person who blames others.

Carl Rogers

 

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

 

What ought one to say then as each hardship comes?

I was practicing for this, I was training for this.

Epictetus

 

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

 

When you get into a tight place,

and everything goes against you until it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer,

never give up then,

for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

 

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

Howard W. Newton

 

Progress always involves risk;

you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

Frederick Wilcox

 

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.

Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

Betty Smith

 

Don't be content with doing only your duty.

Do more than your duty.

It's the horse that finishes a neck ahead that wins the race.

Andrew Carnegie

 

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light.

Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

Glenn Clark

 

Part of being a champ is acting like a champ.

You have to learn how to wín and not run away when you lose.

Everyone has bad stretches and real successes.

Either way, you have to be careful not to lose your confidence or get too confident.

Nancy Kerrigan,  American figure skater

 

Listening is where love begins: listening to OURSELVES and then to our NEIGHBORS.

Fred Rogers

 

A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections.

Chinese Proverb

 

The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.

Doug Larson

 

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last.

Both do the same thing; only at different times.

Baltasar Gracian

 

Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.

Chinese proverb

 

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

Jimi Hendrix

 

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

Julia Sorel

 

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 nëver were.

John F. Kennedy

 

Small people talk about others.

Big people talk about events.

Great people talk about ideas.

unknown

 

Never let yesterday use up today.

Richard H. Nelson

 

You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.

Dale Carnegie

It only takes one person to change your life - you.

Ruth Casey

 

It's time to start living the life you've imagined.

Henry James

 

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Abraham Lincoln

 

Perseverance is a great element of success.

If you only knock long enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Longfellow

 

The best thing workers can bring to their jobs is a lifelong thirst for learning.

Jack Welch

 

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many --

not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Charles Dickens

 

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor;

he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me.

The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

George Bernard Shaw

 

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

Winston Churchill

 

Be curious always!

Knowledge will not acquire you--you must acquire it.

Sudie Back

 

The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.

Zig Ziglar

 

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.

John McEnroe, tennis champion
 

 

You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die.

Or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live. Now.

 Joan Baez, singer
 

 

Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.

Mother Teresa

 

The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts.

Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day.

The content of your character is your choice.

Day by day, what you do is who you become.

Heraclitus

 

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do.

The hard part is doing it.

General Norman Schwarzkopf, US Army General
 

Whatever you do, do it with all your might.

Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season,

not leaving a stone unturned,

and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.

P. T. Barnum,   circum founder

 

Genius is a talented person who does his homework.

Thomas Edison
 

Most of the important things in the world have been accompanied

by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Dale Carnegie, author
 

 

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself.

There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative

and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth.

So, what the hell, leap.

Cynthia Heimel

 

There's rarely a down side to audacity.

Sterling Valentine

 

To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue . . .

gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

Confucius

 

You've got to continue to grow, or you're just like last night's cornbread--stale and dry.

Loretta Lynn

 

It is not the straining for great things that is most effective;

it is the doing of the little things, the common duties,

a little better and better.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

 

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Kenny Rogers

 

An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

Unknown

 

The road to success is marked with many tempting parking places.

Unknown

 

Always do the right thing, even when it's not the easy thing.

Jamie Dimon, Chairman/CEO Bank One

 

Realize there is no finish line.

There is always a race and you are still in it.

The only finish line in life is when you believe you're finished.

Harvey Mackay

 

The acorn does not fall far from the trunk of the oak.

Old European adage

 

A certain amount of failure can be a wonderful education.

Robert Redford

 

Triumph is just umph added to try.

Unknown

 

It's not my net worth. It's my self-worth.

Jamie Dimon, Chairman/CEO Bank One

 

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly

Buckminster Fuller

Pressure is a privilege.

Billie Jean King

 

Even if you're feeling desperate, be careful about whom you hook up with.

The old phrase, 'Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas', still holds true in business.

Lee Ioacocca

 

When the elevator of life breaks down, your best bet is to take the stairs.

Unknown

There aren't any rules for success that work unless you do.

Unknown

 

Cream doesn't rise to the top....it works it way up.

Unknown

 

Champions adjust.

Billie Jean King

 

Learn from the mistakes of others.

You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

Eleanor Roosevelt

 

Every child is an artist.

The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Picasso

 

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

Buckminster Fuller

 

You don't really conquer a mountain. You conquer yourself.

James Whitaker, 1st American to reach Mount Everest Summit

 

People remember two things in life ---

who helped you on the way up...

and who kicked you on the way down when the sun wasn't shining.

Michael Bloomberg

 

Security is mostly a superstition.

It does not exist in nature... life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Helen Keller

 

If you think education is expensive, Try ignorance.

Harvey Mackay

 

Every adversity, every failure and every heartache

carries with it the seed of an equivalent or a greater benefit.

Napoleon Hill

 

He who burns bridges better be a darn good swimmer.

Harvey Mackay

 

Don't just learn something from every experience, learn something positive

Al Neuharth

 

Frauds never reach the finish line.

Lesley Visser

 

It's not who starts.... it's who finishes.

Red Auerbach

 

We are not retreating.....

we are advancing in another direction.

General Douglas MacArthur

 

Luck is the residue of design.

Branch Rickey

 

If you are friendly, all good things come to you.

Swami Kanji Chinmayananda

 

You didn't create the day.

Why not say that everything that happens to me today is a gift.

Larry King

 

When you're pinned to the mat, the only place to look is up.

Jesse Ventura

 

When you spend more time controlling other people's expectations

than fulfilling your own, it may be time to move on.

Harvey Mackay

 

An institution is the lengthened shadow of the one man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

You should always be looking for advice.

But think about the agenda of the people who give you that advice.

Tom Stemberg

Founder of Staples, Inc.

 

You can't exceed the dream, unless you have one in the first place.

Jesse Ventura

 

Do what you enjoy doing, and you will do it well.

The name of the game isn't getting a job, it's getting a life.

Harvey Mackay

 

The best way to get respect from others is to start off giving it.

Bill Belichick

 

Things aren't always going to go the way you would like them to go.

But I think it is important to understand how important your attitude is,

and don't ever lose sight of your dreams. Whevever you face adversity,

you can't let it discourage you from being the very best you possibly can.

Lou Holtz

 

You have to be an optimist in order to create change.

Fidel Castro

 

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

George Santayana
 

 

Every idea you present must be something

you could get across easily at a cocktail party with strangers.

Jack Welch
 

 

There will be a time when loud-mouthed,

incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you.

When that happens, you only have to be patient

and wait for them to self-destruct. It never fails.

Richard Rybolt
 

 

Good will is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Marshall Field
 

 

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

Wayne Gretzky
 

 

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

Eric Hoffer
 

Courage is not the lack of fear.

It is acting in spite of it.

Mark Twain


 

Politics is not a bad profession.

If you succeed, there are many rewards,

if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Ronald Reagan

 

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

William Shakespeare

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession.

I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Ronald Reagan

 

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

Jean de la Bryere
 

 

There is power in well-chosen words, and often there is equal power in silence.

Learning when to talk and when to listen are among the most powerful skills you can develop.

Sharon Anthony Bower
 

 

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

Nelson Rockefeller
 

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases.

If it moves, tax it.

If it keeps moving, regulate it.

And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Ronald Reagan

 

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Albert Einstein
 

 

We make a living by what we get.

We make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill

 

The real voyage of discovery consists of not in seeking new landscapes

but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust
 

 

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.

Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence

can give you a mental edge that results in victory.
 

Arthur Ashe  (1943-1993, Professional Tennis Player)
 

 

We see things not as they are, but as we are.

H.M Tomilnson

 

I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days.

Lance Armstrong
 

Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur,

is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier.

Paula Nelson
 

Hard work spotlights the character of people:

some turn up their sleeves,

some turn up their noses and

some don’t turn up at all.

Sam Ewing
 

Historically, good men with poor ships have fared better than poor men with good ships.

George Patton
 

You control your life by controlling your time.

Conrad Hilton
 

Once you embrace unpleasant news,

not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change,

you aren’t defeated by it.

You’re learning from it.

Bill Gates
 

Be patient and tough; some day this pain will be useful to you.

Ovid
 

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Samuel Johnson
 

No great performance came from holding back.

Don Greene
 

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated

can reach down to the bottom of his soul

and come up with the extra ounce of power

it takes to win when the match is even.

Muhammad Ali
 

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

An Wang
 

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

Henry Ford
 

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty.

The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Ross Perot
 

The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe,

but the more chances you have of getting somewhere.

Charles Kettering
 

The actions of men are like the index of a book…They point out what is most remarkable in them.

Heinrich Heine

 

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses both.

St Catherine of Siena
 

To take the first step in faith, you don’t have to see the whole staircase; just take the first step.

Martin Luther King Jr.
 

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

Benjamin Franklin
 

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take many small steps.

Helmut Schmidt
 

Once you embrace unpleasant news,

not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change,

you aren’t defeated by it.

You’re learning from it.

Bill Gates
 

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his right and left hand.

He uses both.

St Catherine of Siena
 

Learning is not attained by chance;

it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

Abigail Adams
 

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Robert Louis Stevenson
 

It is unfortunate we can’t buy many business executives for what they are worth

and sell them for what they think they are worth.

Malcolm Forbes
 

Life is not easy for any of us.

But what of that?

We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.

We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

Marie Curie
 

Nearly all men can stand adversity,

but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln
 

 

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
 

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 had everything to do and you’ve done it.

Margaret Thatcher
 

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in not giving up.

Tommy Lasorda
 

 

Your most valuable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else.

Brian Tracy

 

What you do off the job is the determining factor in how far you will go on the job.

Zig Ziglar

 

Part of success is preparation on purpose.

Jim Rohn

 

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us,

we would all be millionaires.

Abigail Van Buren

 

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.

Robert H. Schuller

 

The key to most difficulties does not lie in the dilemmas themselves,

but in our relationship to them.

David Seabury

 

It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow,

but only empties today of its strength.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

 

The creed you really believe is spoken, not by your lips, but by your life.

unknown

 

Use what talents you possess.

The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

William Blake

 

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done,

and self-restrain enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Theodore Roosevelt

 

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility.

He says, "I was beaten".

He does not say, "My men were beaten".

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

 

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader.

A boss says, "Go!"

A leader says, "Let's go!"

E.M. Kelly

 

 

Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.

Ruth McKenney

 

Throughout the centuries there were men who took

first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.

Ayn Rand

 

The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves.

Garth Henrichs

 

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

John Steinbeck

 

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.

Harry David Thoreau

 

If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need,

and there isn’t any limit to what you can do

with your business and your life.

Harvey Firestone
 

 

Every great batter works on the theory

that the pitcher is more afraid of him

than he is of the pitcher.

Ty Cobb
 

 

Even if you’re on the right track,

you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogers
 

 

Compromise: The art of dividing a cake in such a way

that everybody believes he got the biggest piece.

Sherry Rothfield

 

A fear avoided lingers for eternity.

A fear confronted dies in a second.

Walt Goodridge

 

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem.

We all have twenty-four-hour days.

Zig Ziglar

 

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

Winston Churchill

 

Questions are the creative acts of intelligence.

Frank Kingdon

 

Many people have played themselves to death.

Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death.

Nobody ever thought himself to death.

Gilbert Highet

 

The best revenge is massive success.

Frank Sinatra

 

Have patience with all things,

but chiefly have patience with yourself.

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections,

but instantly set about remedying them –

every day begin with the task anew.

St Francis de Sales
 

 

Imagination grows by exercise…

W. Somerset Maugham
 

 

Hope is necessary in every condition.

The miseries of poverty, sickness, or captivity would,

without this comfort, be insupportable.

Samuel Johnson
 

 

   If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.

Milton Berle
 

 

Heroes are rebels with a cause.

Rebels because they challenge the traditional

ways of thinking and refuse to follow the herd.

They have a cause, a vision, that's larger than life.

Sharif Khan

 

If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.

Malcolm Forbes

 

In real estate, it’s location, location, location.

In business it’s differentiate, differentiate, differentiate.

Robert Goizueta
 

Only by great risks can great results be achieved. Xerxes

 

Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.

Douglas MacArthur
 

 

Awareness is to your mind what light is to a darkened room.

Peggy McColl

 

To travel hopefully is a better than to arrive,

and the true success is to labor.

Robert Louis Stevenson

 

I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.

William E. Henley

 

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul,

the blueprints of your ultimate accomplishments.

Napoleon Hill

 

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

 

When you know something, say what you know.

When you don't know something, say that you don't know.

That is knowledge.

Confucius

 

The mediocre teacher tells.

The good teach explains.

The superior teach demonstrates.

The great teach inspires.

William Arthur Ward

 

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.

Marcel Proust, French novelist

 

I never teach my pupils.

I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

Albert Einstein

 

The only mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

John Powell

 

Knowing is not enough, we must apply.

Willing is not enough, we must do.

Goethe

 

Personally, I am always ready to learn,

although I do not always like being taught.

Winston Churchill

 

I cannot teach anybody anything.

I can only make them think.

Socrates

 

Live as you were to die tomorrow.

Learn as if you were to live forever.

Gandhi

 

Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing.

Albert Schweitzer
 

 

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him,

and to let him know that you trust him.

Booker T. Washington
 

 

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.
Ben Franklin
 

 

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost,

I am willing to know the whole truth – to know the worst and provide for it.

Patrick Henry
 

 

You can stand tall without standing on someone.

You can be a victor without having victims.

Harriet Woods

 

 

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

Paul Goodman

 

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

 

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping stone to the optimist.

Eleanor Roosevelt

 

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

William Butler Yeats
 

 

Find the good. It’s all around you.

Find it, showcase it and you’ll start believing in it.

Jesse Owens
 

 

Good education is the essential foundation of a strong democracy.

Barbara Bush
 

 

I have never seen pessimists make anything work,

or contribute anything of lasting value.

Harry Truman
 

 

You become what you think about all day long.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

Progress always involves risk;

you can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.

Frederick Wilcox

 

Faith without works is dead.

The Bible

 

If one ADVANCES confidently in the direction of their goals,

and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined,

they WILL meet with success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

 

 

You will become as small as your controlling desire;

as great as your dominant aspiration.

James Allen

 

 

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul,

the blueprints of your ultimate accomplishments.

Napoleon Hill

 

I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.

William E. Henley

 

Awareness is to your mind what light is to a darkened room.

Peggy McColl

 

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive,

and the true success is to labor.

Robert Louis Stevenson

 

People often say that motivation doesn't last.

Well, neither does bathing.

That's why we recommend it daily.

Zig Ziglar

 

Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Thomas Carlyle

 

We don't stop playing because we grow older,

we grow older because we stop playing.

Nana, age 103

 

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Oliver Goldsmith

 

Discipline is the soul of an army.

It makes small numbers formidable,

procures success to the weak,

and esteem to all.

George Washington
 

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings

so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

Socrates
 

All life is a chance. So take it!

The person who goes furthest is the one who is willing to do and dare.

Dale Carnegie


I'm living proof that your choice of how to respond to a situation constitutes your ultimate power.

Naomi Judd

 

Big thinking precedes big achievement.

Wilfred A. Peterson

 

He who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger.

Japanese proverb

 

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

A rising tide floats all ships.

Shakespeare

 

Decisions determine destiny.

George Patton

 

Become a possibleitarian.

No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are,

raise your sights and see the possibilities –

always see them, for they are always there.

Norman Vincent Peale
 

 

Don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.

Where there is love, inspiration and hard work,

I don’t think you can go wrong.

Ella Fitzgerald
 

 

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

Peter Marshall

 

 

Expect the best, plan for the worst and prepare to be surprised.

Denis Waitley

 

 

Each of us has a spark in life inside us, and our highest endeavor

ought to be to set off that spark in one another.

Kenny Ausubel

 

What’s important is what we become, not what we have.

It’s how well we've learned to serve.

It’s the relationships we’ve built.

Kurt Wilkins

 

 

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal,

or no weapon in the arsenals of the world,

is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.

It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.

Ronald Reagan
 

 

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

G.K. Chesterton
 

 

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

 

One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat us.

Mary Kay Ash

 

Posterity.

You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom!

I hope you will make good use of it.

letter to Abigail Adams, 1777,   John Adams, president

 

I've missed over 9,000 shots in my career.

I've lost almost 300 games.

26 times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot . . . and missed.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life.

And that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

 

Be bold.

If you’re going to make an error, make a doozy, and don’t be afraid to hit the ball.

Billie Jean King
 

 

 

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries,

it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.

Isaac Newton

 

 

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Norman Vincent Peale

 

 

A man’s mind, stretched by a new idea, can never go back to its original dimension.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
 

 

You promote yourself every time you take on a new responsibility.

William Gore
 

 

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it,

bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

 


 

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;

an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Sir Winston Churchill
 

 

A wise person does at once what a fool does at last.

Both do the same thing, only at different times.

John Dalberg Acton
 

 

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days

that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

William Feather

 

 

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel.

If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Sam Walton, Founder of Wal-Mart

 

 

The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation

with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better.

Barbara Pletcher

 

If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it.

The only real security that a man can have in this world

is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Henry Ford

 

We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong.

The amount of effort is the same.

Carlos Castenada

 

If fear is cultivated, it will become stronger.

If faith is cultivated, it will achieve mastery.

John Paul Jones

 

I love the man who can smile in trouble,

who can gather strength from distress,

and grow brave by reflection.

Thomas Paine
 

 

I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use.

Right upfront, tell people what you’re trying to accomplish

and what you‘re willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.

Lee Iaocca
 

 

There are no secrets to success.

It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failures.

Colin Powell
 

 

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates’ loot on Treasure Island…

and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day.

Walt Disney
 

 

Whenever there is danger, there lurks opportunity;

whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger.

The two are inseparable. They go together.

Earl Nightingale
 

 

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable,

but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

 

 

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

 

The best ad is a good product.

Alan H. Meyer

 

None of us has gotten where we are solely by pulling ourselves up from our own bootstraps.

We got here because somebody bent down and helped us.

Thurgood Marshal

 

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you,

and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Joe Namath

 

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Helen Keller

 

What is now proved was once only imagined.

William Blake

 

You don't have to be great to get started but you have to get started to be great.

Les Brown

 

I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life.

Queen Margret II of Denmark

 

I don't worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.

Louisa May Alcott

 

Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah.

It makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.

Rumi

 

Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark.

You know what you are doing but nobody else does.

Edgar Watson Howe

 

 

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually.

One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

Rita Mae Brown

 

Reduce your plan to writing . . .

The moment you complete this,

you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Napoleon Hill

 

 

A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself;

indeed, he progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

George Bernard Shaw

 

 

If everything’s under control, you’re going to slow.

Mario Andretti
 

 

How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money.

Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is lost forever.

David B. Norris
 

 

The world is divided into people who do things, and people who get credit.

Try, if you can, to belong to the first class, there is far less competition.

Dwight Whitney Morrow

 

 

There is work that is work and there is play that is play;

there is play that is work and work that is play.

And in only one of these lie happiness.

Gelett Burgess

 

 

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know.

It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

Anatole France

 

Inside the ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down.

It's staying down that's wrong.

Muhammad Ali
 

 

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized

until personal experience has brought it home.

John Stuart Mill
 

 

A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done.

He has to keep on delivering.

Carl Hubbell

 

 

More important that the will to win is the courage to begin.

Ron Hazelton

 

What we must decide is how we are valuable,

rather than how valuable we are.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

There is something sick about a person whose only interest is money.

And the same can be said, I think, for the company whose sole goal is profit.

Richard Haayen

 

What was hard to bear is sweet to remember.

Portuguese proverb

 

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Stephen Covey

 

Your chances of success are directly proportional

to the degree of pleasure you derive from what you do.

Michael Korda
 

 

The most successful leader of all is the one who sees another picture not yet actualized.

Mary Parker Follett

 

You see things; and you say, 'Why?'

But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'

George Bernard Shaw

 

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding

and that which is lost by not trying.

Francis Bacon
 


No one ever graduates from Bible study until he meets the Author face to face.
Everett Harris

 

 

What would life be if we had not courage to attempt anything?

Vincent van Gogh
 


 

The higher type of man clings to virtue, the lower type of man clings to material comfort.

The higher type of man cherishes justice,

the lower type of man cherishes the hope of favors to be received.

Confucius

 

The Gospel is not a challenge, it is an offer.
Joe Blinco

 

As you grow older,

you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.

Zachary Scott

 

To get your ideas across use small words, big ideas and short sentences.

John Henry Patterson

 

Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves.

For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are,

by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral, and subject to change.

Arthur Schopenhauer

 

 

In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful,

but the gratefulness that makes us happy.

Albert Clarke

 

 

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

Winston Churchill

 

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

Malcolm Forbes

 

 

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

Dalai Lama

 

Einstein's Three Rules of Work:

Out of clutter find simplicity;

From discord find harmony;

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

 

 

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, poet, dramatist

 

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done, and the worst is that which delays them.

David Lloyd George
 

 

The future has several names.

For the weak, it is the impossible.

For the fainthearted, it is the unknown.

For the thoughtful and valiant, it is the ideal.

Victor Hugo
 

 

The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor.

Robert Collier
 

 

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Keep this constantly in mind.

Weak desires bring weak results,

just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

Napoleon Hill
 

 

The worst thing in your life may contain seeds of the best.

When you can see crisis as an opportunity,

your life becomes not easier, but more satisfying.

Joe Kogel
 

 

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort,

but where he stands in time of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King Jr.
 

 

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Dennis Green
 

 

The past cannot be changed.

The future is yet in your power.

Mary Pickford
 

 

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who does him absolutely no good.

Ann Landers
 

 

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

Abraham Lincoln
 

 

To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Bernard Baruch
 

 

There has no special time of it’s own.

Its hour is now – always.

Albert Schweitzer
 

 

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a name of value.

Albert Einstein
 

Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

It's what you learn after you know everything that counts.

John Wooden

 

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

Chinese proverb

 

Nothing is a more powerful agent for attracting and keeping talented people than a clear vision, especially if the organization is living that vision and achieving its goals.

Gary Hoover
 

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words;

it is expressed in the choices one makes…

and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Eleanor Roosevelt

 

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 had everything to do, and you’ve done it.

Margaret Thatcher
 

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

John F. Kennedy
 

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action

you should take -  choose the bolder.

W.J. Slim

 

So, I learn from my mistakes.

It’s a very painful way to learn, but without pain,

the old saying is, there’s no gain.

Johnny Cash
 

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

 

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries,

it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.

Isaac Newton

 

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Norman Vincent Peale

 

Success is a lousy teacher.

It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.
Bill Gates
 

 

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Bertrand Russell

 

Fear less, hope more;

whine less, breathe more;

talk less, say more;

hate less, love more;

and all good things are yours.

Swedish Proverb

 

Some people think only intellect counts:

knowing how to solve problems, know how to get by,

knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it.

But the functions of intellect are insufficient without

courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

Dean Koontz

 

There is time for work.

And time for love.

That leaves no other time.

Coco Chanel

 

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

Danny Kaye

 

Life is like a coin.

You can spend it any way you wish,

but you only spend it once.

Lillian Dickson

 

You're only here for a short visit.

Don't hurry. Don't worry.

And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

Walter C. Hagen

 

We can't all be hereos because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.

Will Rogers

 

Watch your thoughts; they become your words.

Watch your words; they become your actions.

Watch your actions; they become your habits.

Watch your habits; they become your character.

Watch your character for it will become your destiny.

If I am not for myself, who will be for me?

If I am only for myself, what am I?

And if not now, when?

Rabbi Hillel

 

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed,

courage to change the things which should be changed,

and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Reinhold Niebuhr

 

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than dancing.

The main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Marcus Aurelius

 

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Havelock Ellis

 

Make new friends and keep the old;

one is silver, the other gold.

Unknown

 

Never squat with your spurs on.

John Wayne

He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for.

Moroccan Proverb

 

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience.

With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear of death.

Voltaire

 

A man who is being delivered from the danger of a fierce lion does not object,

whether this service is performed by an unknown or an illustrious individual.

Why, therefore, do people seek knowledge from celebrities?

El Ghazali

 

Do, or do not.

There is no 'try'.

Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back

 

The greatest pleasure I know is to do good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

Charles Lamb

 

You don't ever have to do anything sensational to love or to be loved.

Fred Rogers

 

No man can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude

without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

 

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk.

That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Ernest Hemingway

 

It is not the mountain that we conquer, but ourselves.

Edmund Hillary
 

 

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

Marcus Aurelius
 

 

Managers are people who do things right, and leaders are people who do the right thing.

Warren Bennis
 

 

Life is not a “brief candle.”

It is a splendid torch that I want to make burn as brightly as possible

before handing it on to future generations.

Bernard Shaw

 

 

I don’t believe in looking back.

If you make a decision that you think is the proper one at the time,

then that’s the correct decision.

John Woody
 

 

If anything goes bad, I did it.

If anything goes semi-good, then we did it.

If anything goes real good, than you did it.

That’s all it takes to get people to win football games.

Paul “Bear” Bryant
 

 

I don’t measure my “success” every day.

I measure how much we have left to do.

In that sense, business success is just a form of persistence.

Daniel Snyder
 

 

We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill

 

If a man does not keep pace with his companions,

perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Henry David Thoreau


 

If a man goes into business with only the idea of making money, the chances are he won’t.

Joyce Clyde Hall
 

 

If I have any valuable discoveries,

it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.

Sir Isaac Newton
 

 

Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead.

Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Anna Cummins

 

Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely

in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways,

thoroughly used up, totally worn out,

and loudly proclaiming 'Wow--what a Ride!'

Peter Sage

 

Be not afraid of changing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.

Chinese Proverb

 

In real estate, it’s location, location, location.

In business, it’s differentiate, differentiate, differentiate.

Robert Goizueta

 

It is not the strongest of the species that survive,

nor the most intelligent,

but the one most responsive to change.

Charles Darwin
 

 

Give your workers more sophisticated jobs along with better tools,

and you’ll discover your employees will become more responsible

and bring more intelligence to their work.

Bill Gates

 

Please understand my friend,

that where you find yourself tomorrow is a function

of the positive decisions and actions you take today.

Akin A. Awolaja

 

Nothing is more endangered in the modern world

than the powerful combination of hard work toward

meaningful goals joined with an exuberant embrace of the present moment.

Tom Morris

 

No lions are ever caught in mousetraps.

To catch lions you must think in terms of lions, not in terms of mice.

Your mind is always creating traps of one kind or another,

and what you catch depends on the thinking you do.

It is your thinking that attracts to you what you receive.

Thomas Dreier

 

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

Maureen Dowd

 

Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right.

Walt Disney
 

Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals.

David Ogilvy
 

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart.

Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

Carl Jung

 

Hold on to your dreams for they are, in a sense, the stuff of which reality is made.

It is through our dreams that we maintain the possibility of a better, more meaningful life.

Leo Buscaglia

 

I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas:

they've gone through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

Emily Bronte

 

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!

Live the life you've imagined.

As you simplify your life, the law of the universe will be simpler.

Henry David Thoreau

 

Dreams have as much influence as actions.

Stephane Mallarme

 

A person with big dreams is more powerful than a person with all the facts.

Dayle Maloney

 

Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goals.

Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge

and adding to your experiences,

so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.

Mario Andretti

 

Confidence – thrives only on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations,

on faithful protection and on unselfish performance.

Without them, it cannot live.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
 

 

It is not enough to be busy, so are the ants.

The question is, 'What are we busy about?'"

Henry David Thoreau

 

A man would do nothing, if he waited until he could do it so well

that no one at all would find fault with what he has done.

John Henry Newman

 

Entrepreneurs are the forgotten heroes of America.

Ronald Reagan
 

 

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings

so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

Socrates
 

It's easy to count the seeds in an apple,

but only God can count the apples in a single seed.

Dr. Robert Schuller

 

 

Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind your dreams

to make as much of them become real as you can.

Frank Woolworth
 

 

Aim for success, not perfection.

Never give up your right to be wrong,

because then you will lose the ability to learn new things

and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns
 

 

Our friends are those who know their own faults well enough to forgive us ours.

Moulton Farnham

 

It's better to do something for nothing than nothing for nothing.

Patricia Fripp

 

If you want to know what a man is really like,

take notice how he acts when he loses money.

New England Proverb

 

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks,

breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.

Mary Lou Cook

 

The way to generate unexpected service to the people in your life is to ask yourself,

'What do they expect?'

Then ask, 'What can I do that they would not expect?'

It's always the unexpected service that gets talked about.

Steve Chandler

 

A bold heart is half the battle.

Dwight Eisenhower
 

 

A life is not important except in the impact it has on others lives.

Jackie Robinson
 

 

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgi

 

 

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwellings. Nothing that he says, think or does is without consequences.

Norman Cousins
 

 

Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.

Les Brown

 

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be;

for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness

or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

Martha Washington

 

 

Never does a man portray his character more vividly than his proclaiming the character of another.

Winston Churchill

 

The sure way to keep ourselves in ignorance is to have contempt prior to investigation.

Herbert Spencer

 

An expert craftsman leaves no mark.

Lao-Tzu

 

Blessed in the influence of one true loving human soul on another.

George Eliot

 

The greatest force on earth is the human soul on fire.

Ferdinand Foche, French Allied Supreme Commander WWI

 

Things unattended fester. Hearsay happens. Intentions become suspect.

The faster you broach the subject, the less infected the wounds.

Dianna Booher
 

Would you like me to give you a formula for success?

It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.

You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t all that.

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 will find success.

Thomas J. Watson

 

Failures are divided into two classes -

those who thought and never did,

and those who did and never thought.

John Charles Salak

 

Success is the prize for those who stand true to their ideas!

Josh S. Hinds

 

If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past.

A.R. Bernard

 

The mediocre teacher tells.

The good teacher explains.

The superior teacher demonstrates.

The great teacher inspires.

William Arthur Ward

 

One person with a belief is equal to 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

 

It's easy to count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the apples in a single seed.

Dr. Robert Schuller

 

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human being

can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

William James

 

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

Harvey S. Firestone

 

When you are most unhappy,

elieve that there is something for you to do in the world.

So long as you can sweeten another's pain,

life is not in vain.

Helen Keller

 

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain.

An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind,

but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point.

Harold B. Melchart

 

Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky.

Class has nothing to do with money.

Class never runs scared.

It is self-discipline and self-knowledge.

It's the sure- footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.

Ann Landers

 

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure

one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them,

but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

 

Search for the seed of good in every adversity.

Master that principle and you will own a precious shield

that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse.

Og Mandino

 

Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation.

Wholeheartedness is contagious.

Give yourself, if you wish to get others.

David Seabury

 

In our daily lives,

we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful,

but gratefulness that makes us happy.

Albert Clarke

 

Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration,

if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.

Igor Stravinsky
 

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add,

but when there is nothing left to take away.

Antoine de St. Exupery

 

 

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too.

All sorts of things occur to help that would never otherwise have occurred…

Whatever you can do or dream you can begin it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 

 

The time is always right to do what is right.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It doesn't happen all at once. You become. It takes a long time.

Margery Williams

 

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Mohandas Gandhi
 

 

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli
 

 

Enjoyment is not a goal,

it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

Paul Goodman

 

The best portion of a good man’s life -

his little nameless, unremembered act of kindness and of love.

William Wordsworth


 

Our doubts are traitors,

and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

William Shakespeare
 

 

A wise man will make more opportunities then he finds.

Francis Bacon

 

 

It is the nature of every person to err, but only the fool preserves in error.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
 

 

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

 

Spectacular achievements are always preceded by painstaking preparation.

Roger Staubach

 

 

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
 

 

 

The Horizon is out there somewhere,

and you just keep chasing it, looking for it, working for it.

Robert Dole
 

 

The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it.

If you can’t ignore it, top it. If you can’t top it, laugh at it.

If you can’t laugh at it, it’s probably deserved.”

Joseph Russell Lynes

 

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher.

I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them,

and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
Confucius
 

 

The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it,

when people are saying it can't be done.

Mary Frances Berry

 

To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.

Samuel Butler

 

It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

Sally Kempton

 

Small people talk about other people.

Average people talk about events.

Great people talk about ideas.

Tobias S. Gibson

 

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light,

and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness.

Mohandas Gandhi
 

 

I have learned throughout my life as a composer

chiefly through my mistake and pursuits of false assumptions,

not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

Igor Stravinsky
 

 

Seeing much, suffering much and studying much

are the three pillars of learning.

Benjamin Disraeli
 

 

Kindness is more important than wisdom,

and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Theodore Issac Rubin
 

 

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn’t controversial,

that means he never stood for anything.

Richard M. Nixon
 

 

The only thing of value we can give kids is what we are, not what we have.

Leo Buscaglia

 

The mediocre teacher tells.

The good teacher explains.

The superior teacher demonstrates.

The great teacher inspires.

William Arthur Ward

 

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Mohandas K.Gandhi

 

Parents can tell but never teach, unless they practice what they preach.

Arnold Glasow

 

As we express our gratitude,

we must remember that the highest appreciation is not to utter words,

but to live by them.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

 

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Eleanor Roosevelt

 

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

 

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard.

Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

Charles Wilson
 

 

Pessimism never won any battle.    Dwight D. Eisenhower
 

 

 

99% of failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses.

George Washington Carver


 

You will find at the base of and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast,

a man consumed with earnestness of purpose,

with confidence in his powers,

with faith in the worthiness of his endeavors.
B.C. Forbes
 

 

Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things.

Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.

--Eric Butterworth

 

No one's poverty consciousness was ever cured with a dose of money.

Jerry Gillies

 

Abundance is not about how much money one has,

but about one's attitude about how much one has.

Rick Jarow

 

Life is like a great big grinding wheel.

Whether it wears you down or polishes you up depends on what you're made of.

Unknown

 

 

Become a possibilitarian.

No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are,

raise your sights and see possibilities --

always see them, for they're always there.

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

 

Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

John Petit-Senn

 

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

 

The people and circumstances around me do not MAKE me what I am,

they REVEAL who I am.

Dr. Laura Schlessinger

 

It takes courage to live - courage and strength and hope and humor.

Jerome Fleischman

 

In America nobody says you have to keep

the circumstances somebody else gives you.

Amy Tan

 

Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

Leonardo da Vinci

 

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Robert F. Kennedy
 

 

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand,

and the determination that whether we win or lose,

we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Vince Lombardi

 

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

 

If you don't like something change it.

If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

Maya Angelou

 

Any man's 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

 

Success is not final, failure is not fatal:

it is the courage to continue that counts.

--Winston Churchill

 

 

The worst thing in your life may contain seeds of the best.

When you can see crisis as an opportunity,

your life becomes not easier, but more satisfying.
Joe Kogel
 

 

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work,

so most people don’t recognize them.

Ann Landers
 

 

The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Lee Iacocca

 

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Albert Schweitzer

 

 

Opportunity follows struggles.

It follows effort.

It follows hard work.

It doesn’t come before.

Shelby Steele
 

 

This above all: to thine own self be true,

And it must follow, as the night the day,

Thou canst not then be false to any man.

Shakespeare's Hamlet

 

Tell me a fact and I'll learn.

Tell me a truth and I'll believe.

But tell me a story and it will live in my heart forever.

Indian Proverb

 

10% is what life brings to you.  90% is what you do about it.

Alice Crowe

 

Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

 

I am not full of virtues and noble qualities

I love.

That is all. But I love strongly, exclusively and steadfastly.

George Sand

 

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.

Seneca

 

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Camus

 

Gentleness is the most powerful weapon against violence.

E. Stanley Jones

 

Do not go where the path may lead;

go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug

and we shall want to live more musically.

Vincent van Gogh

 

Goals are kind of like children . . .

you pay attention to them, they evolve into something powerful . . .

you don't . . . they evolve into something pitiful .

Doug Firebaugh

 

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Stephen Covey

 

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

Sir John Lubbock

 

Life is not a 'brief candle'.

It is a splendid torch that I want to make burn as brightly as possible

before handing it on to future generations.

Bernard Shaw
 

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.

Woodrom T. Wilson

 

There is a very relationship between what you contribute and what you get out of this world.

Oscar Hammerstein II

 

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders,

not more followers.

Ralph Nader

 

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born -

that there is a genetic factor to leadership.

This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not.

That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true.

Leaders are made rather than born.

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

Warren G. Bennis.

 

Unless you are willing to drench yourself in your work beyond

the capacity of the average man,

you are just not cut out for positions at the top.

J.C. Penney

 

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease

whose name is worth remembering.

Theodore Roosevelt

 

Resolve that whatever you do, you will bring the whole man to it;

that you will fling the whole weight of your being into it.

Orison Swett Marden

 

You can get everything money will buy without a lick of character,

but you can't get any of the things money won't buy -

happiness, joy, peace of mind, winning relationships, etc.,

without character.

Zig Ziglar

 

The single common denominator of men and women who achieve great things

is a sense of destiny.

Brian Tacy

 

At the end of each day you should play back the tapes of your performance.

The results should either applaud you or prod you.

Jim Rohn

 

One of the tragic things I know about humanity is that all of us tend to put off living.

We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon -

instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outisde our windows today.

Dale Carnegie

 

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

 

I have no particular talent, just inquisitiveness.

Albert Einstein

 

The man who views the world at 50 the same

as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

Muhammad Ali

 

Everything that can be invented has been invented.

Charles Duell,   Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899

 

If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.    Unknown

 

I urge a willingness to reserve a place in rational science for non-rational wonder.

Albert Einstein

 

You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies,

and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

Irvine Robbins,  Co-Founder, Baskin-Robbins

 

 

One who scourns the power of intuition

will never rise above the ranks of journeyman calculator.

Albert Einstein

 

Integrity is the first step to true greatness.

Men love to praise it, but are slow to practice it.

To maintain it in high places costs self-denial;

in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious,

and the universe will yet do it homage.'

Charles Simmons

 

Integrity pays, but not in cash.   Jennifer Stone

 

If we did all the things we are capable of doing,

we would literally astonish ourselves.   Thomas Edison


 

It's ok to do what you want to do until it is time to do what you're meant to do.

"The Rookie" - Movie

 

When every physical and mental resource is focused,

one’s power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

Norman Vincent Peale

 

I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me…

failure always made me try harder next time.

Michael Jordan

 

It's good to have money and the things that 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 Lorimer

 

Mistakes are painful when they happen,

but years later a collection of mistakes is called experience.

Denis Waitley

 

There are only two options regarding commitment.

You're either IN or you're OUT.

There's no such thing as life in-between.

Pat Riley

 

If you are going through hell ... keep going.

Winston Churchill

 

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it

than to consume wealth without producing it.

George Bernard Shaw

 

Grey clouds are just clouds passing over.     Duke Ellington

 

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few;

and let those few be well tried before you

give them your confidence.

George Washington


Every great man has become great,

every successful man has succeeded,

in proportion as he has confined his

powers to one particular channel.

Orison Swett Marden

 

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. Arnold Toynbee


 

Discipline is the soul of an army.

It makes small numbers formidable,

procures success to the weak,

and esteem to all.

George Washington
 

The most powerful weapon on Earth is the human soul on fire.

Ferdinand Foch


 

You can't push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb himself. Andrew Carnegie

 

Never fear shadows.

They simply mean there’s a light shining somewhere nearby.

Ruth Renkel
 

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

An education is like a crumbling building

that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions.

Louis Dudek

 

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Henry Ford

 

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed

by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.

So throw off the bowlines.

Sail away from the safe harbor.

Catch the trade winds in your sails.

Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain

 

The past cannot be changed.

The future is yet in your power.

Hugh White
 

Assumption is the mother of mistakes.

Angelo Donghia

 

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act,

but I believe in a fate that falls on men unless they act.

G.K. Chesterton

 

I know the price of success:

dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion

to the things you want to see happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

 

We are continuously faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. Lee Iacocca
 

 

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.

I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have.

Abraham Lincoln

 

Arrogance is a kingdom without a crown.

American Proverb

 

A sharp tongue and a dull mind are usually found in the same head.

Unknown

 

Never tell people how to do things.

Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

General George S. Patton

 

Unless you walk out into the unknown,

the odds of making a profound difference in your life are pretty low.

Tom Peters

 

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

 

Success is not so much what we have as it is what we are.   Jim Rohn

 

Difficulties come not to obstruct, but to instruct.

Brian Tracy

 

What comes out of your mouth

is determined by what goes into your mind.

Zig Ziglar

 

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli

 

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.

George S. Patton

 

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.    William Lloyd George

 

99 failed solutions =  a gain of 99 pieces of information.

Albert Einstein

 

Everybody thinks of changing humanity,

but nobody thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy

 

The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Dale Carnegie

 

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.

W.E. Channing

 

Time is more valuable than money.

You can get more money,

but you cannot get more time.

Jim Rohn

 

There is only one real failure in life that is possible,

and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.

John Farrar

 

You will forgive people more easily

when you end your need to make them wrong.

Brian Koslow

 

He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moments of the passing life. 

Henry David Thoreau

 

The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful,

but certainly the most dangerous,

human attribute.

Dero Ames Saunders

 

Tone of voice, look and manner can prove no less eloquent that choice of words.

Francois La Rochefoucauld  (16th Century French author)

 

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station,

who did not do better work and put forth greater effort

under the spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

Charles Schwab

 

It is not the great temptations that ruin us;

it is the little ones.

John W. DeForest

 

The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts.

Think only those things that are in line with your principles and bear the light of day.

The content of your character is your choice.

Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.

Your integrity is your destiny .. it is the light that guides your way.

Heraclitus,  Greek Philosopher 6th Century BCE

 

 

I kept six honest serving men.

They taught me all I know.

Their names were What, Why, When, How, Where and Who.

Rudyard Kipling

 

The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.

Brian Tracy

 

The successful person makes a habit of doing

what the failing person doesn't like to do.

Thomas Edison

 

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character.

But if you must be without one, be without strategy.

Norman Schwarzkopf

 

When I've heard all I need to make a decision,

I don't take a vote.

I make a decision.

Ronald Reagan

 

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal

and then leap in the dark to our success.

Henry David Thoreau

 

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success

is knowing how to get along with people.

Theodore Roosevelt

 

There are three ingredients in the good life:

learning, earning and yearning.

Christopher Morley

 

A single person who lacks commitment

can be a major source of problems in your organization.

Brian Tracy

 

People forget how fast you did a job -

but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

 

Everything depends upon execution;

having just a vision is no solution.

Stephen Sondheim

 

In it in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

Anthony Robbins

 

Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise.

They're absolutely free - and worth a fortune.

Sam Walton

 

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches,

but to reveal to him his own.

Benjamin Disraeli

 

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche

 

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which

difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

John Quincy Adams

 

You can do anything you wish to do,

have anything you wish to have,

be anything you wish to be.

Robert Collier

 

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

Thomas Edison

 

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal -

not to people or things.

Albert Eistein

 

You must be on top of change or change will be on top of you!

Mark Victor Hansen

 

Creativity is seeing what everyone sees and

thinking what no one has ever thought.

Albert Einstein

 

Conceit is the quicksand of success.    Arnold Glasow

 

The bigger a man’s head gets, the easier it is to fill his shoes.   Henry A. Courtney

 

There are no mistakes so great as that of being always right.  Samuel Butler

 

Remember, you only have to succeed the last time.

Brian Tracy

 

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

 

If standard of living is your major objective,

quality of life almost never improves,

but if quality of life is your number one objective,

your standard of living almost always improves.

Zig Ziglar

 

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running;

if you stand still, they will swallow you.

William Knudsen Jr.

 

God is at home; it is we who have gone out for a walk

Meister Eckert

 

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily;

even if you had no title or position.

Brian Tracy

 

You don't get paid for the hour.

You get paid for the value you bring to an hour.

Jim Rohn

 

I'm so optimistic I'd go after Moby Dick in a row boat

and take the tartar sauce with me.

Zig Ziglar

 

The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say.

It's terribly important for everyone to get involved.

Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.

Sam Walton

 

It is good to have an end to journey towards,

but it is the journey that matters in the end.

Ursula K. Le Guin

 

If you got it, ask yourself why and try to repeat the action.

If you failed, ask yourself why and try to learn from the experience.

Dale Carnegie

 

Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life.

Simone Weil

 

It's never too late to be what you might have been.

George Eliott

 

Leadership is not something that is done to people, like fixing your teeth.

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

Bill Bradley

 

The greatest single cause of a poor self-image

is the absence of unconditional love.

Zig Ziglar

 

You keep customers by delivering on your promises,

fulfilling your commitments,

and continually investing in the quality of your relationships.

Brian Tracy

 

The soil says, 'Don't bring me your need. Bring me your seed.'

Jim Rohn

 

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Napoleon Hill
 

 

No matter what the level of your ability,

you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime.

James T. McKay

 

Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant.

This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror.

Herb Brody

 

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days

that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

William Feather

 

Yesterday is a cancelled check.

Tomorrow is a promissory note.

Today is cash in hand.

Spend it!

John W. Newbern

 

Excellence can be obtained if you care more than others think is wise,

risk more than others think is safe,

dream more than others think is practical,

expect more than others think is possible.

Vince Lombardi

 

We can have more than we've got because we can become more than we are.

Jim Rohn

 

If we don't start, it's certain we can't arrive.

Zig Ziglar

 

If your job is customer satisfaction, your real job title is Problem Solver.

Brian Tracy

 

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.
Muhammad Ali
 

 

Leaders think and talk about the solutions.

Followers think and talk about the problems.

Brian Tracy

 

You don't drown by falling into water;

You only drown if you stay there.

Zig Ziglar

 

Big goals get big results.

No goals get no results or somebody else's results.

Mark Victor Hansen

 

If anything is worth trying at all, it is worth trying at least ten times!    Art Linkletter

 

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there.

Then never, never, never give up.

Norman Vincent Peale

Every tomorrow has two handles.

We can take hold of it with the

handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

Henry Ward Beecher

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.

Helen Keller

Dream big dreams!

Imagine that you have no limitations and

then decide what's right before you decide what's possible.

Brian Tracy

 

If you are not going to be better tomorrow than you were today,

then what need have you for tomorrow?

Rabbi Nahman of Breslov

Make yourself indispensable, and you'll move up.

Act as though you are indispensable, and you will move out.

Jules Ormont

 

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem.

We all have 24 hour days.

Zig Ziglar

Never let the competition define you.

Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view

you care deeply about.

Tom Chappel

Dreams are renewable.

No matter what your age or condition,

they are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.

Dale E. Turner

Life is the sum of all your choices.  Albert Camus

 

More power than all the success slogan ever penned by human hand

is the realization for every man that he has but one boss.

That boss is the man -- he -- himself.

Gabriel Heatter

 

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

 

People can cry much easier than they can change.

James Baldwin

 

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love;

there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

Dr Wayner Dyer

 

The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibilty of becoming.

You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit

to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit.

Jim Rohn

 

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 Druker

 

Nothing splendid has even been achieved except by those who dared believe

that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. 

Bruce Barton

 

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Thomas Jefferson

 

The future has several names.

For the weak it is impossible;

for the fainthearted it is unknown

but for the thoughtful and valiant, it is ideal.

Victor Hugo


 

Experience is not what happens to a man;

it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

 

The “if” thinker broods over a difficulty or a setback.

The “how” thinker wastes no energy on postmortems

when trouble or even disaster hits him.

He immediately starts looking for the best solution.

    Norman Vincent Peale


 

A musician must make music,

an artist must paint,

a poet must write if he is ultimately to be at peach with himself.

what one can be, one must be.

Abraham Maslow

 

Constant kindness can accomplish much.

As the sun makes ice melt,

kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.

Dr. Albert Schweitzer

 

One sees great things from the valley;

only small things from the peak.

Gilbert K Chesterton

 

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it,

bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Anotine de Saint-Exupery

 

Pride is concerned with who is right.

Humility is concerned with what is right.

Ezra Taft Benson

 

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further

than a great idea that inspires no one.  Mary Kay Ash

 

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder... Paul J. Meyer

 

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which,

more than anything else,

will affect it's successful outcome.

William James

 

He that walks with wise men shall be wise.  Proverbs 13:20

 

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 Butler

 

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us,

but in what we make out of what they do to us.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

 

There is more to life than increasing its speed.   Gandhi

 

No one keeps up his enthusiasm automatically.

Enthusiasm must be nourished with new actions, new aspirations, new efforts, new vision.

It is one's own fault if his enthusiasm is gone; he has failed to feed it.

Papyrus

 

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;

courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.    Winston Churchill

 

When I stand before God at the end of my life,

I would hope tht I would not have a single bit of talent left,

and could say, 'I used everything you gave me.'   Erma Bombeck

 

Things turn out best for the best whom make the best of the way things turn out.  John Wooden

 

Raising your kids by yelling at them is like attempting

to drive a car by continuously honking the horn.   W. Johnson

 

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed.

Happiness is the experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

Denis Waitley

 

Make it a habit throughout your life to do what you fear.

If you do the thing you fear the most, the death of fear is certain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

You have reached the pinnacleof success as soon as you become

uninterested in money, compliments or publicity.

Eddie Rickenbacker

 

Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.  A.P. Gouthey

 

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result.

Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.

Jesse Jackson

 

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

 

Act brave.

The world steps aside for the man who acts like he knows where he is going.

D.S. Jordan

 

Cowards die many times before their deaths.

The valiant never taste of death but once.

Shakepeare's Julius Ceasar

 

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 person who does not make mistakes does not usually make anything.  Bishop W.C. Magee

 

Success is how high you bounce after you've fallen.  Eric Aronson

 

If at first you don't succeed, you're about average!  Dr. Robert Anthony

 

Happiness is like a cat.

If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you.  It won't come.

But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business,

you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.

William Bennett

 

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day;

wisdom consists in not exceeding the daily limit.

Elbert Hubbard

 

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are:

    something to do,

    something to love,

and something to hope for.

Joseph Addison

 

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe

that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Bruce Barton

 

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.    Robert Schuller

 

Originality and the feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Being challenged in life is inevitable.

Being defeated is optional.

Roger Crawford

 

Nothing happens unless first a dream.     Carl Sandberg

 

We have to do the best we can.

This is our sacred human responsibility.    Albert Einstein

 

There is always room at the top.

Daniel Webster

 

Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are

because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us.

Stephen Covey

 

 

The way to be successful is to follow the advice you give to others.   Unknown

 

Three billion people on the face of the earth go to bed hungry every night,

but four billion people got to bed hungry

for a simple word of encouragement and recognition.

Cavett Roberts

 

I am not the smartest, but I surround myself with competent people.

Henry Ford

 

Time is our scarcest resource and,

unless it is managed,

nothing else can be managed.

Peter Drucker

 

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying.

Then we might live life to the limit every minute of every day.

'Do it!' I say.

Whatever you want to do, do it now!

There are only so many tomorrows.

Michael Landon

 

Live each day as if it were your last day -

someday you'll be right.   Unknown

 

Time is a fixed income and, as with any fixed income,

the real problem facing us is how to work successfully with our daily allotment.

Plan each day down to the moment because once time is wasted,

you can never get it back!

Percy Whiting

 

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired

but becomes inspired because he is working.

Beethoven, Bach, Mozart settled down day after day to the job at hand

with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures.

They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

Ernest Newman

 

To become successful you must be a person of action.

Merely to "know" is not sufficient.

It is necessary both to know and do.

Napoleon Hill

 

The chains of habit are usually too small to be felt

until they are too strong to be broken.

Samual Johnson

 

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle.

I just wish He didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

 

The mind is its own place, and in itself can

make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

John Milton

 

Since matter is waves of energy and thought is energy,

matter and thought are different aspects of the same thing.

Thus, our thoughts and what we manifest and create from them

are merely the constructs of our minds.

The systems and institutions under which we live,

and the scales by which we measure,

come from the way we think.

Our questions determine our answers.

David Bohm

 

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life

is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

Richard M Devos, co-founder Amway

 

The greatest single determinant of what you will be or do

with your creative abilities is your perception of who you are.

Self-esteem is central to the whole problem of securing

any type of success in any endeavor.

Dr Michael LeBoeuf

 

We can only do what we think we can do.

We can be only what we think we can be.

We can have only what we think we can have.

What we do, what we are, what we have, all depend upon what we think.

Robert Collier

 

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;

what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal

Albert Pike

 

If we could first know where we are,

and whither we are tending,

we could then better judge what to do and how to do it.

Abraham Lincoln

 

Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

William Shakespeare

 

There is a time when we must firmly choose the course we will follow,

or the relentless drift of events will make the decision.

Herbert V. Prochnow

 

We are not sent into the world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.

John Ruskin

 

 

What this power is I cannot say;

all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man

is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants

and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Alexander Graham Bell

 

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Mark Twain

 

Being happy doesn't mean everything is perfect --

you're just looking past the imperfections!

 

Life has many choices.

Eternity has two.

What's yours?

 

God cannot steer a parked car.

 

Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life,

humor handles the more immediate ones.

William Sloan Coffin, Jr.

 

 

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.    Samual Johnson

 

Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.   Thomas Edison

 

Success in never final.   Winston Churchill

 

Do your work with your whole heart and you will succeed - there's so little competition.

Elbert Hubbard

 

The deeds you do today may be the only sermon some people will hear today.  St. Francis of Assisi

 

Hell, there are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something.  Thomas Edison

 

You can not plan the future by the past.   Edmund Burke

 

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.  William Faulkner

 

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.  Meister Eckhart

 

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead.

The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.

Sir Winston Churchill

 

Love is a passport to the impossible,

so do not be disturbed if the seas are sometime rough.

Lois Wyse

 

What we love we shall grow to resemble.

Bernard of Clairvaux

 

Most of the things worth doing in the world have been declared impossible before they were attempted.

Earl Nightingale

 

Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel,

stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.

Sara Henderson

 

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

Jean De La Fontaine

 

In each of us are places where we have never gone.

Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them.

Dr. Joyce Brothers

 

All successful men and women are big dreamers.

They imagine what their future could be,

ideal in every respect,

and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Brian Tracy

 

That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.

Emily Dickenson

 

Dreams come a size too big so that we can grow into them.

Josie Bisset

 

Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Corita Kent

 

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be;

for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery

depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

Martha Washington

 

Never let the competition define you.

Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care deeply about.

Tom Chappel

 

We all have two choices:

We can make a living or

We can design a life.

Jim Rohn

 

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others can not keep it from themselves.

J.M. Barrie

 

One of our greatest gifts in our intuition.

It is a sixth sense we all have -

we just need to learn to tap into and trust it.

Donna Karan

 

If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least 10 times.

Art Linkletter

 

Opportunity is missed by most people

because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.  Thomas A. Edison

 

Man is born broken. He spends his life mending. Grace is the glue.  Unknown

 

Life is divided into three terms --

that which was, which is and which will be.

Let us learn from the past to profit by the present,

and from the present to live better in the future.

Wordsworth

 

Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea.

It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off,

and does something about it that makes a difference.

Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari

 

 

The person who wins may have been counted out several times,

but didn't hear the referee.  Unknown

 

 

In matters of principle, stand like a rock;

in matters of taste, swim with the current.

Thomas Jefferson

 

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

 

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.  Michael Bartel

 

The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward.

Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight.

Mark Caine

 

There are no great people in this world;

only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.

William Frederick Halsey, Jr.

 

Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

Mother Teresa

 

Destiny is not a 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.

Jeremy Kitson

 

I want to do it because I want to do it.    Amelia Earhart

 

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul.

Dream deep, for every dream preceds the goal.

Pamela Vaull Starr

 

Encouragement is like premium gas.... it takes the knocks out of living!   Unknown

 

Joy is not the absence of suffering, but the presence of God.   Unknown

 

Beyond your regular vocational duties are responsibilities toward others --

toward the community, the state, the nation, society in general,

and the church of whcih most of you are members.

The attention you give to these, the energy you devote to these are of

the essence of your character and your virtue.

Gordon B. Hinckley

 

 

Be of service.

Whether you make yourself availalbe to a friend or co-worker,

or you make time every month to do volunteer work,

there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment

than being of service to someone in need.

Gillian Anderson

 

Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter,

and notice what happens.

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

 

Joy is not the absence of suffering, but the presence of God.    Unknown

 

 

There are two things to aim for in life;

first, to get what you want;

and after that, to enjoy it.

Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Logan Smith, Author 1865-1946

 

The truth is lived, not taught.    Hermann Hesse

 

 

That when we strengthen the life in others we transcend time,

and those whose lives we have once blessed are strengthened by us still.

T.H. White

 

 

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

George Elliot

 

The best medicine for despair is service.

The best cure for weariness is the challenge

of helping someone who is even more tired.

Gordon B. Hinckley

 

Your destiny is in your hands

and your important decisions are your own to make.

SW Kimball

 

Man is what he thinks all day.     Emerson

 

We cannot do great things...

we can do small things with great love.

Mother Theresa

 

Luck is what you have left over after you give 100%. Langston Coleman

 

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit at home and think about it.

Go out and get busy.

Dale Carnegie

 

You must have long range goals to keep you

from being frustrated by short range failures.

Charles C. Noble

 

The time is always right to do what is right.

Martin Luther King Jr.

 

Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest.

Mark Twain

 

We make a living by what we get,

but we make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill

 

One's best success comes after his greatest disappointments. Henry Ward Beecher

 

Take the first step in faith.

You don't have to see the whole staircase,

just take the first step.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

 

Some men see things as they are and ask why.

Others dream things that never were and ask why not.

George Bernard Shaw

 

 

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein

 

 

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say.

I just watch what they do.

Andrew Carnegie

 

Genius is eternal patience.   Michelangelo

 

My attitude has always been, if its worth playing, its worth paying the price to win.

Paul "Bear" Bryant

 

As a general rule, you have to accept that no matter where you work,

you are not an employee;

you are in a business with one employee -- yourself.

Andrew Grove

 

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.   Gloria Steinem

 

The key to why things change is the key to everything. James Burke

 

Who, being loved, is poor?     Oscar Wilde

 

There is frequently more to be learned

from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

John Locke

 

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.  Napoleon Bonaparte

 

Change comes more from managing the journey

than announcing the destination.     William Bridges

 

The difference between what we do, and what we are capable of doing,

would solve most of the world's problems.

Mahatma Gandhi

 

The one law that does not change is that everything changes. The hardship I            was bearing today was only a breath away from the pleasures I would have tomorrow, and those pleasures would be all the richer because of the memories         of this I was enduring.    Unknown

 

Something must die in order to grow --

your old habits, your old self, your old thinking, your old life...

must be weeded out for the seeds of success to grow.

Doug Firebaugh

 

 

Our destiny changes with our thought;

we shall become what we wish to become,

do what we wish to do,

when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.

Orison S. Marden

 

Courage changes things for the better.

With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it,

realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times

as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.

Earl Nightingale

 

 

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

John Wooden

 

Strength does not come from winning.

your struggles develop your strengths.

When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender,

that is strength.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

 

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.  Marcus Cicero

 

If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain.    Jimmy Durante

 

As we express our gratitude,

we must remember that the highest appreciation is not to utter words,

but to live by them.

John F. Kennedy

 

Time and money spent in helping men do more for themselves

is far better than mere giving.    Henry Ford

 

One needs to be slow to form conviction, but once formed,

they must be defended against the heaviest odds.

Mohandas Gandhi

 

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

William Arthur Ward

 

God does not ask your ability or your inability.

He asks only your availability.

Mary Kay Ash

 

The mighty oak started out as a nut that just took roots.   Unknown

 

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value to its scarcity.   Samuel Johnson

 

Let's be grateful for those who give us happiness;

they are the charming gardeners who make our soul bloom.

Marcel Proust

 

The world will not end today, it's already tomorrow in Australia.    Unknown

 

Every winner has scars.    Herbert Casson

 

It's a good idea to not major in minor things.   Anthony Robbins

 

Do not wait for leaders.

Do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

 

Love is a passport to the impossible,

so do not be disturbed if the seas are sometimes rough.

Lois Wyse

 

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.  Elbert Hubbard

 

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill,

that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship,

support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

John F. Kennedy

 

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.

Helen Keller

 

The difference between a successful person and others is

not a lack of strength,

not a lack of knowledge,

but rather a lack of will.

Vincent T. Lombardi

 

Entrepreneurship is a state of mind, a can-do attitude,

a capacity to focus on a vision and work toward it.

Barry Rogstad

 

No arsenal is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.

It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

It is a weapon that we as Americans do have.

Let that be understood by those who practice terrorism.

Ronald Reagan

 

Destiny is not a 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.

Jeremy Kitson

 

Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

William A. Ward

The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view.

Since life is growth and motion,

a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.

Brooks Atkinson

 

You can achieve anything you want in life if you have the courage to dream it,

the intelligence to make a realistic plan,

and the will to see that plan through to the end.

Sidney A. Friedman

 

 

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces,

I would still plant my apple tree.

Martin Luther

 

Out of clutter find simplicity;

from discord find harmony;

in the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Einstein's Three Rules of Work

 

Be sure to put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.   Abraham Lincoln

 

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

John F. Kennedy

 

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything.

You are you and that is the beginning and the end-no apologies, no regrets.

Clark Moustakas

 

It is a fine thing to have ability,

but the ability to discover ability in others is a true test.    Elbert Hubbard

 

Fun is about as good a habit as there is.      Jimmy Buffet

 

Success is never final and failure never fatal.

It's courage that counts.

George Tiltonood

 

You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.

Henry Ford

 

I burned my candle at both ends,

and now have neither foes nor friends.

Samual Hofferstein

 

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds around my neck

Emma Goldman

 

The Wright Brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility. Charles Kettering

 

Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes.  Ben Franklin

 

Every fool knows you can't touch the stars,

but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying.

Harry Anderson

 

I haven't failed.

I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.

Thomas A. Edison

 

Victory belongs to the most persevering.   Napoleon Bonaparte

 

Well done is better than well said.  Benjamin Franklin

 

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.    Sun Tzu

 

I bargained with life for a penny,

only to learn, dismayed,

that any wage I would have asked of life,

life would have paid!

Unknown

 

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

Henry Ford

 

When they call the roll in Congress,

the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'. 

Theodore Roosevelt

 

Never, never, never give up.   Winston Churchill

 

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.  Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too

serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles De Gaulle

 

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

Vince Lombari

 

He who builds to every man's advice will have a crooked house.

Danish proverb

 

If it fails, admit it frankly and try another.

But above all, try something again.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

All sunshine makes a desert.   Zig Ziglar

 

A man without a purpose is like a boat without a rudder.  Thomas Carlyle

 

 

The moment one gives close attention to anything,

even a blade of grass,

it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

Henry Miller

Where is YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?

 

 

Success is a journey, not a destination.   Ben Sweetland

 

You can use most any measure when you're speaking of success.

You can measure it in a fancy home, expensive car or dress.

But the measure of your real success is one you cannot spend -

it's the way your child describes you when talking to a friend.

Martin Baxbaum

 

The man who lives for himself is a failure;

the man who lives for others has achieved true success.

Norman Vincent Peale

 

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Albert Camus

 

 

It is amazing what can be accomplished if a leader doesn't care who gets the credit.

Mark Twain

 

We would worry less about what others think of us

if we realized how seldom they do.  Ethel Barrett

 

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.  George Bernard Shaw

 

Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse.  Proverb

 

Most misfortunes are results of misused time.  Napoleon Hill

 

No matter what the level of your ability,

You have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime.

James T. McKay

 

 

Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.   Winston Churchill

 

Faith in God is a terrific adventure in the dark.   Oswald Chambers

 

Discipline is the soul of any army.

It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak and esteeem to all.

George Washington

 

 

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

John F. Kennedy

 

 

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards;

they try to have more things, or more money

in order to do more of what they want,

so they will be happier.

The way it actually works is the reverse.

You must first be who you really are,

then do what you need to do,

in order to have what you want.

Margaret Young

 

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaoitc currents of life,

is without trouble.    Carl Jung

 

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything

without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Robert Frost

 

Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.

J. J. Furnas

 

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?

Dr Robert Schuller

 

I always entertain great hopes.    Robert Frost

 

 

Technology is dominated bv two types of people;

those who understand what they do not manage,

and those who manage what they do not understand.

Putt's Law

 

Chance favors the prepared mind.    Louis Pasteur

 

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound.

Rebuild those plans and set sail again toward your coveted goal.

Napoleon Hill

 

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized or cruelly knocked,

but it cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.

Michael J Fox

 

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Henry Ford

 

It's always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth.

Malcolm Forbes

 

In the game of life, it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Bill Vaughn

 

Always be loyal to those who are absent,

if you want to retain those who are present.

Stephen R. Covey

 

The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind.

Dr Wayne W Dyer

 

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.

Thomas Watson, IBM Chairman 1943

 

Make no small plans for they have not the power to stir men's blood.

Niccolo Machiavelli

 

Greatness is rarely achieved in our "spare time".

Unknown

 

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.

John F. Kennedy

 

The price of excellence is discipline.

The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.

William A. Ward

 

When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world.

I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation.

When I found I couldn't change the nation, I began to focus on my town.

I coundn't change the town and an older man, I tried to change my family.

Now as an old man, I realize the only thing I can change is myself,

and suddenly I realize that if long ago I had changed myself,

I could have made an impact on my family.

My family and I could have made an impact on our town.

Their impact could have changed to nation and I could inded have changed the world.

Unknown Monk in 1100

 

No man is my enemy,

No man is my friend.

Every man is my teacher.

Unknown

 

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

 

Nothing makes a child as smart as having grandparents.

Franklin P. Jones

 

Youth is the gift of nature,

But age is a work of art.

Garson Kanin

 

It is not enough to be busy....

The question is: What are we busy about?

Henry David Thoreau

 

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials.

The more brains you use, the less material you need.

Charles Kettering

 

A good plan today is better than a great plan tomorrow.

George S. Patton

 

 

You can do anything if you have enthusiasm.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars.

With enthusiasm, there is accomplishment.

Without enthusiasm, there are only alibis.

Henry Ford

 

There are no secrets to success.

It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Colin Powell

 

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

Edith Wharton

 

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Sophia Loren

 

Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

John Wooden

 

When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word "succeed" you find that it simply means to follow through.

F.W. Nichol

 

Do not wait; the time will never be just right.

Start where you stand,

work with whatever tools you may have at your command,

better tools will be found as you go along.

Napoleon Hill

 

Nothing is particularily hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Henry Ford

 

The most rewarding things you do in life are often

the ones that look like they cannot be done.

Arnold Palmer

 

You must begin to think of yourself as becoming

the person you want to be.

David Viscott

 

Great minds have purposes,

others have wishes.

Washington Irving

 

We tend to get what we expect.

Norman Vincent Peale

 

I bargained with life for a penny; only to learn, dismayed, that any wage I would have asked of life, life would have paid.

Unknown

All glory comes from daring to begin.

William Shakespeare

 

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose,

for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down,

but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

 

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

John D. Rockefeller

 

There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Napoleon Hill

 

I dream my painting and then paint my dream.

Vincent Van Gogh

 

Only those who risk going too far can possibly know how far one can go.

T.S. Elliot

 

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal;

Nothing on earth can help the man with wrong mental attitude.

Thomas Jefferson

 

Every really new idea looks crazy at first.

Abraham H. Maslow

 

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 responsibility.

Eleanor Roosevelt

 

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

Richard M. DeVos

 

People with goals succeed because they know where they are going...

It's as simple as that.

Earl Nightingale

 

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche

 

A difficult time can be more readily endured

if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose --

a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.

John Maxwell

You are what you think about all day long.

Dr Robert Schuller

 

Freedom is actually a bigger game than power.

Power is about what you can control.

Freedom is about what you can unleash

Harriet Rubin

 

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

Ben Franklin

 

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment to improve the world.

Anne Frank

 

The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.

Dostoyevsky

 

Once you know that what you think about expands,

you start getting real careful about what you think about.

Wayne Dyer

 

The best portion of a good man's life is the little,

nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

William Wordsworth

 

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go

and how to get there.

Then, never, never, never give up.

Norman Vincent Peale

 

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when.

You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

Joan Baez

I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization.  Such an individual is yeast than can leaven an entire loaf.  It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage and faith to be a transforming leader.

Steven R. Covey

 

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T.S. Eliot

 

The way we live our days,

its the way we live our lives.

Annie Dillard

 

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

The price of excellence is discipline.

The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.

William A. Ward

 

Everyone has the will to win. What is unusual is the will to prepare to win.

Vince Lombardi

 

People can meet the needs of outer necessity in an ideal way only...

if they are in harmony with themself.

Conversely, people can only adapt to their inner world and achieve harmony with

themself when they are adapted to their environmental conditions.

Carl Jung

 

Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly.

Lauren Bacall

 

Greatness is rarely achieved in our "spare time".  

Unknown

 

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance

to forms of music yet to be heard.

Warren G. Bennis

 

Reflect upon your blessings,

of which every man has plenty,

not on your past misfortunes,

of which all men have some.

Charles Dickens

 

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

 

 

When the freedom they wished for most

was freedom from responsibility,

then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Edith Hamilton, Historian

 

I know not what others may choose but,

as for me, give me liberty or give me death.

Patrick Henry

 

Choosing to live your life by your own choices

is the greatest freedom you will ever have.

Shad Helmstetter

 

 

A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure.

Unknown

 

A moment of choice is a moment of truth.

It's the testing point of our character and competence.

Stephen Covey

 

 

There are only two ways to live your life.

One is as though nothing is a miracle.

The other is though everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein

 

Ideals are like stars.

We may never reach them,

but we use them to chart our course.

Unknown

 

Do what you love,

love what you do

and deliver more than you promise.

Harvey MacKay

 

Misery no longer loves company.

Nowadays it insists on it.

Russell Baker

 

Don't part with your illusions.

When they are gone, you may still exist,

but you have ceased to live.

Mark Twain

 

 

Tension is who you think you should be,

relaxation is who you are.

Ancient Chinese Proverb

 

 

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

P. O'Brien

 

I'd like to live like a poor man, only with lots of money.

Pablo Picasso

 

 

Few things are harder to put up with the annoyance of a good example.

Mark Twain

 

Don't be humble.

You're not that great.

Golda Meir

 

It is a sheer waste of time and soul-power to imagine

what I would do if things were different.

They are not different.

Frank Crane

 

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

Laurence J. Peter

 

A knowledge of the path

cannot be substituted for putting one foot in front of the other.

M.C. Richards

 

It is a good thing to be rich,

it is a good thing to be strong,

but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.

Euripedes

 

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead,

either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.

Benjamin Franklin

 

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive.

The great opportunity is where you are.

John Burroughs

 

 

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Theodore Roosevelt

 

There is ONLY ONE REASON to be in business,

to SERVE the customer!

Unknown

 

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.

Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.

Goethe

 

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat.

Lily Tomlin

 

In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful,

but the gratefulness that makes us happy.

Albert Clarke

 

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Theresa

 

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.

Woodrom T. Wilson

 

Life is change.

Growth is optional.

Choose wisely

Karen Kaiser Clark

 

Before you wonder, 'Am I doing things right?',

ask 'Am I doing the right things?'    Stephen R. Covey

 

Throw you heart over the fence and the rest will follow.   Norman Vincent Peale

 

Only those who will risk going too far

can possibly find out how far one can go.

T.S. Eliot

 

Nothing happens unless first a dream.     Carl Sandburg

 

The question is not whether we will die,

but how we will live.

Joan Borysenko

 

What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.  Earl Nightingale

 

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.   Walt Disney

 

Asking 'Who ought to be the boss?' is like asking

'Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?'

Obviously, the man who can sign tenor.

Henry Ford

 

Ideals are like stars.

We may never reach them,

but we use them to chart our course.

Unknown

 

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world,

the master calls a butterfly.   

Richard Bach

 

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.  Helen Keller

 

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears

with composure one heavy mischance after another,

not because he does not feel them,

but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

 

The only person who likes changes is a wet baby.    Mark Twain

 

Don't be afraid of small beginnings,

remember this whole thing started with a mouse.

Walt Disney

 

I am not bound to win,

I am bound to be true.

I am not bound to succeed,

but I am bound to live up to the light I have.

Abraham Lincoln

 

Leadership determines the direction of the company

Organizaton determines the potential of the company

Personnel determine the success of the company

John Maxwell

 

Remember: You're either a dream maker or a dream breaker.

Mark Victor Hansen

 

There are two theories to arguing with a woman...neither works.

Will Rogers

 

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

The second best time is now.   Chinese Proverb

 

Make it a habit throughout your life to do what you fear....

if you do the thing you fear,

the death of fear is certain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Circumstances do not make a man....

they merely reveal him to himself.

Roman Philosopher Epictetus

 

Control your destiny or somebody else will.    Jack Welsh

 

Let us become the change we seek in this world.  Mohandas Gandhi

 

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.  Benjamin Franklin

 

When your desire are strong enough

you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

Napoleon Hill

 

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Knowledge is limited.

Imagination encircles the world.  Albert Einstein

 

Always bear in mind,  that your own resolution to succeed

is more important than any other thing.

Abraham Lincoln

 

If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.  Will Rogers

 

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that is your own self.

Aldous Huxley

 

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces,

I would still plant my apple tree.

Martin Luther

 

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Abraham Lincoln

 

Take the first step in faith.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Dr Martin Luther King Jr.

 

We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.

Martha Grimes

 

Hide not your talents.

They for use were made.

What's a sundial in the shade?

Ben Franklin

 

The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breast.

William Ellery Channing

 

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

John F. Kennedy

 

 The best soldier does not attack.

The superior fighter succeeds without violence.

The conqueror wins without struggle.

The most successful manger leads without dictating.

This is intelligent non-aggressiveness.

This is called mastery.

Lao-Tse

 

You can have brilliant ideas,

but if you can't get them across,

your ideas won't get anywhere

Lee Iacocca

 

The quickest way to double your money is to fold it

and put it back in your pocket.

Will Rogers

 

 Be a creator of circumstances rather than just a creature of circumstances. Be proactive rather than reactive.

Brian Tracy

No matter what size the bottle,

the cream always comes to the top.

Charles Wilson

If you keep doing what you've always done,

you'll keep getting what you've always gotten.

Steven Covey

 

If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed him. Of course, no one would have remembered him either.

Unknown

 

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.

Helen Keller

 

When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.

Unknown

 

Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor.

H. Jackson Brown Jr. 

 

If you haven't any charity in your heart,

then you have the worst kinds of heart trouble.

Bob Hope

 

The world doesn't care what you know until they know that you care.

David Havard

 

Asking "Who ought to be the boss?" is like asking "Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?"   Obviously the man who can sing tenor.

Henry Ford

 

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

Ayn Rand

We are what we repeatedly do....

Excellence then, is not an act....

but a habit.

Aristotle

 

Pay no attention to what the critics say;

there has never been a statue in honor of a critic.

Jean Sibelius

 

The minute you settle for less than you deserve,

 you get even less than you settled for.

Maureen Dowd

Behold the turtle.

He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

James B. Conant

 

There are three kinds of men:

The ones that learn by reading.

The few who learn by observation.

The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence.

Will Rogers

 

Perserverance is not a long race;

it is many short races one after another.

Walter Elliott

 

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. Whey you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

 

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

 

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull to not charge because you are a vegetarian.

Dennis Wholey

 

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.

Wyatt Earp

 

The thoughts we choose to think are the tools

we use to paint the canvas of our lives.

Louise Hay

 

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world,

the master calls a butterfly.

Richard Bach

 

Pleasure is not the purpose of man's existence. Joy is.

David O. McKay

 

When you are through changing, you're through!

Bruce Barton

Heart is what separates the good from the great.

Michael Jordan

There is nothing good or bad,

but thinking makes is so.

Shakespeare

Courage is being scared to death --- and saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

Think great and positive and empowering thoughts,

consistently and persistently,

and the reality of your life will follow suit.

Ralph Marston

 

Positive belief at the start of a doubtful undertaking is often the one thing ensuring its success.

William James

 

Grace means that God is on our side and thus we are victors regardless of how well we have played the game.

Brennan Manning

 

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

Francis Bacon

Good judgment comes from experience,

and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.      Will Rogers

 

Encouragement is oxygen of the soul.

Unknown

 

The world is very different now... and yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebearers fought are still at issue around the globe - the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.

John F. Kennedy

Confidence...

thrives only on honesty,

on honor,

on the sacredness of obligations,

on faithful protection and on unselfish performance.

Without them, it cannot live.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

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

Martha Washington

 

 

Everyone has the power for greatness,

not for fame but for greatness,

because greatness is determined by service.

Martin Luther King Jr.

 

God bless my mother, all that I am or ever hope to be I owe to her.

Abraham Lincoln

 

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing,

but to turn it into glory.

William Barclay

 

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

Winston Churchill

 

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything!

Theodore Roosevelt

 

Each player must accept the cards life deal them.  But once they are in hand, they alone must decide how to play the cards to win the game.

Voltaire

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out.

Unknown

Before you can do something, you first must be something.

German Philospher Goethe

 

Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.

Winston Churchill

Faith in God is a terrific adventure in the dark.

Oswald Chambers

 

If I am not for myself, who will be for me?

But, if I am for myself alone, what am I?

Rabbi Hillel

 

The biggest addiction we have to overcome is the human ego. Why? Because EGO stands for Edging God Out.

Ken Blanchard

 

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

 

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

Beverly Sills

 

Leaders are the custodians of a nation's ideals, the beliefs it cherishes, of its permanent hopes, of the faith which makes a nation out of a mere aggregation of individuals.

Walter Lippman

 

Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.

Thomas Edison

 

Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is teh quality that most frequently makes for success.

Dale Carnegie

 

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Sigmund Freud

 

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance my deride it, but in the end there it is.

Winston Churchill

 

Somepeople live in a dream world, and some face reality. But there is a third group - those who turn one into the other.

Kevin Eikenberry

Great hopes make great men.

Thomas Fuller

 

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Mike Murdock

 

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Zig Ziglar

 

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

 

You must get good at one of two things:

sowing in the spring or beggin in the fall.

Jim Rohn

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

 

You will never stub your toe by standing still,

but the faster you go,

the more chance you have of getting somewhere!

Charles Kettering

 

Hide not your talents.

They for use were made.

What's a sundial in the shade?

Ben Franklin

 

A dream is just a dream.

A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.

Harvey Mackay

 

The future belongs to those who believe in their dreams

Eleanor Roosevelt

 

Take the first step in faith.

You don't have to see the whole staircase,

just take the first step.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

 

Life is either a daring adventure...or nothing.    Helen Keller

 

Behold the turtle.

He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

James B. Conant

 

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.

Walter Elliott

 

The most important thing you'll ever have is your Integrity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or be touched.

They must be felt with the heart.                                  Helen Keller

 

 

What plays in the theater of your mind today,

will shape the habits of your heart tomorrow!

Shakespeare

 

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world,

the master calls a butterfly.

                                                                                                          Richard Bach

 

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

 

By the time a man realizes that maybe his Father was right, he usually has a son who thinkgs he is wrong.       Charles Wadsworth

 

Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want.

  Faith is the belief that God will do what is right!          Unknown

 

Some people see things as they are and say "Why?"

I dream things that never were and say "Why not?"

George Bernard Shaw

 

The greatest risk is not taking one. Unknown

 

If you can DREAM it, you can DO it!     Walt Disney

 

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.   Denis Waitley

 

If you think you can or if you think you can't, you're right!

Henry Ford

 

1000% of the shots I don't take, don't go in!

    Wayne Gretsky, NHL all time scorer

 

Continuous effort, not strenghth or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential. Winston Churchill

 

Never turn problems into an excuse.      Robert Knowles                

 

You can't stop the birds from flying over your head -

but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair.

  Psalm 103

 

The Future belongs to those

who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

 

Not to decide is to decide.       Harvey Cox

 

Pain is inevitable - misery is optional.       Unknown

Pain is the best teacher.    C.S. Lewis

 

What lies behind you

What lies in front of you

Is nothing in comparison to what lies within you.

Unknown

 

I like what money can buy --- but I love what money can't buy!   Robert Knowles               

 

It's not what happens to you -

it's how you handle what happens to you that makes the difference. 

                                                                                                                               Unknown

 

A real leader doesn't just blaze the trail into the future, he or she courageously blazes the trail into his or her own heart.                                                      Henri Nouwen

 

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Norman Vincent Peale

 

People with goals succeed because

they know where they are going --

It's as simple as that.

Earl Nightingale

So many worlds, so much to do.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

 

There are no secrets to success:

Don't waste time looking for them;

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure,

loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence.

Colin Powell

 

It's hard to expect an empty bag to stand up straight.

Winston Churchill

Leadership is influence.      John Maxwell

Leadership is about finding your voice.    Max DePree

Leadership is the achievement

of what the science of management believes un-achievable!  Colin Powell

 

It's ok to do what you want to do

until its time to do what you're meant to do.

                                                   "The Rookie" movie

Fatigue will make cowards of all of us.

                                                        Vince Lombardi

 

A woman is like a tea bag.

You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.

                                                                 Eleanore Roosevelt

 

No person was ever honored for what he received.

Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

                                                                                         Calvin Coolidge

 

If you don't think it's a good day, try missing one.

                                                                          Zig Ziglar

 

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.

Albert Einstein

 

You can observe a lot by watching.   Yogi Berra

 

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.

Aldous Huxley

 

The ultimate measure of a man is not where

he stands in moments of comfort and convenience,

but where he stands at times of challenge and controvery.

Martin Luther King

 

There is not one verse of Scripture that indicates you can be a Christian and live any kind of life you want to. When Christ enters into the human heart, He demands that He be Lord and Master. He demands complete surrender.

Billy Graham, Peace with God

 

Example is not the main thing in influencing others.

It is the only thing.                                  Albert Schweitzer

 

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start my friend,

anyone can start from now and make a brand new end.

Carl Bard

 

Do not pray for easy lives.

Pray to be stronger men and women.

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers.

Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

                                                                           Phillips Brooks

 

If you don't have a goal, any road will get you there.     Yogi Berra

 

 

Amiable agnostics will talk cheerfully about man's search for God.

For me they might as well talk about the mouse's search for a cat.

                                                                                                                                                C.S. Lewis

 

Who you are makes a difference.

 

You will NEVER achieve sustainable success that exceeds the image you have of yourself.

Our imagination is the only limit to what

we can hope to have in the future.

Charles Kettering

When science finally locates the center of the universe, some people will be surprised to learn they're not it.

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

                                                                                                                                              Mark Twain

The moment you stop learning, it is the end of your life.       Plato

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over in exactly the same way and expecting different results.

Confucus

Be the change you want to see in the world.                Gandhi

 

Raise new questions,

explore new possibilities,

regard old problems from a new angle.

Albert Eintein

Far better it is to dare mighty things,

to win glorious triumphs,

even though checkered by failure,

than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much,

because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat

Theodore Roosevelt

Not everything that is faced can be changed.

But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

James Baldwin

Anything the Mind can conceive and believe, IT CAN ACHIEVE

                                                                                     Napoleon Hill

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.         Helen Keller

 

Where we stand is not as imporant

as the direction in which we are going.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T.S. Elliot

Hold yourself responsible to a higher standard

than anybody else expects of you;

never excuse yourself. 

Henry Ward Beecher

 

The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency.

  All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity.

But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself,

and do not try to reconcile yourself with the world.

  The heroic cannot be common, nor the common heroic.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

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