You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It's called perseverance. -Lee Iacocca The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses. -David Storey Work is the world's easiest escape from boredom and the only surefire road to success. -Marabel Morgan It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. -Epictetus "The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully." -Epicurus He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place. -Charles Caleb Colton "What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man. - Friedrich Nietzsche" Failure is usually the line of least persistence. -Wilfred Beaver Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. -Benjamin Franklin Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose. -G.K. Nielson Success is not measured by the heights one attains, but by the obstacles one overcomes in its attainment. -Booker T. Washington If you make yourself into a doormat, people will wipe their feet on you. -unknown Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper. -Francis Bacon If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. -John D. Rockefeller It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself. -Hyman Rickover You can either give in to negative feelings or fight them, and I'm of the belief that you should fight them. -Dr. Ruth Westheimer Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth. -Johann G. Fichte The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do. -Thomas Edison I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others as what I am in my own; I would be rich of myself & not by borrowing. -Montaigne If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want...except neurosurgery. -John Lowenstein Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge. -Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Never be afraid to take on a really tough problem. When you solve it, the benefits will be that much greater. -Carl Gerstacker "The world is good-natured to people who are good-natured." -William Makepeace Thackeray Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things. -Henry Ward Beecher Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills. -William A. Ward The most successful people are those who are good at plan B. -James Yorke We decieve ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more. -Swetchine "We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves. - Orison Swett Marden" In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. -Margaret Atwood Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality. -Les Brown "We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own." -Ben Sweetland The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. -English proverb I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. -FDR If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. -Longfellow Our chief want in life is somebodywho shall make us do what we can. -Ralph Waldo Emerson It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring it out. -Pope "When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it." - Sigmund Freud Life is too short to waste. Dreams are fulfilled only through action, not through endless planning to take action. -David Schwartz Idleness travels very slowly, and poverty soon overtakes her. -Hunter "We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. - Lee Iacocca" We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have. -Basil S. Walsh Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. -Wendy Wasserstein "One today is worth two tomorrows. - Benjamin Franklin" "A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. - Richard Bach" If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. -Thoreau No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind. -Napoleon Hill A man always has two reasons for what he does: a good one, and the real one. -J.P. Morgan Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive...then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. -Thurman "Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher." -Oprah Winfrey "Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting. - Napoleon Hill" There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic. -Zig Ziglar What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want. -Mignon McLaughlin "Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. - Denis Diderot" There is more to life than just existing and having a pleasant time. -Johann Friedrich Von Schiller Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world. -Goethe It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -Aristotle The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. -Ayn Rand The greatest quest in life is to reach one's potential. -Mychal Wynn "Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. - Gregory Gretsch" You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. -Olin Miller Wishes expand in direct proportion to the resources available for their gratification. -Robert Dato Debate is the death of conversation. -Emil Ludwig Deal with the faults of others as gently as your own. -Chinese Proverb Many great ideas have been lost because people who had them could not stand being laughed at. -Anonymous When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees. -Kenneth Kaunda "Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking. - Bernard Baruch" Whatever advice you give, be short. -Horace Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes. -Buddha You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour. -Jim Rohn The difference between involvement & commitment is like ham & eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed. -Navratilova Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time. -Viktor E. Frankl The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of all things, the most shameful and vile. -Plato The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. -William James Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them. -Swetchine "No man is lonely while eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention. - Christopher Morley" My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate; that's my philosophy. -T Wilder We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. -Oscar Wilde You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers. -Les Brown People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes. -Abigail Van Buren An inventor fails 999 times and if he succeeds once, he's victorious. He treats his failures as practice shots. -Charles Kettering I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness. -Charles Dickens People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. -Frederick Douglass "You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." -Margaret Thatcher Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning. -Benjamin Franklin Cause change and lead; accept change and survive; resist change and die. -Ray Norda Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds. -Sir Walter Raleigh We all have the extraordinary coded within us...waiting to be released. -Jean Houston The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action. -Confucius "Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. - Albert Camus" Do each daily task the best we can; act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us. -William Feather The leaders of mankind are those who lift their feet from the dusty road & lift their eyes to the illumined future. -W. Wilson A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead the first blow, better not strike at it. -Josh Billings "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." - Mark Twain "If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done. - Norman Vincent Peale" Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. -Publilius Syrus The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination. -Tommy Lasorda It's easy to say "no!" when there's a deeper "yes!" burning inside. -Stephen R. Covey The past does not equal the future. -Anthony Robbins Happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it is too late. -R Updegraff What you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. -D.H. Lawrence Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. -Elbert Hubbard Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. -Sun Tzu There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage. -Seneca the Younger The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -Robert Green Ingersoll "I can live for two months on a good compliment." -Mark Twain Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot. -Jim Rohn A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success. -Unknown The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep. -Wilson Mizner It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life. ~ Anne Lamott If u would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing. -Ben Franklin Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. -Charles Caleb Colton Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal. -Goethe Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn, and not often, on their own, the hard way. -Heinlein A winner makes commitments. A loser makes promises. -Unknown The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do. -Liz Smith Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself. -Alfred Sheinwold When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy. -Salman Rushdie Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. -Henry Clay Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. -Zig Ziglar Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees. -Swedish Proverb The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top." -Nancy Barcus Life brings simple pleasures to us every day. It is up to us to make them wonderful memories. -Cathy Allen Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory. -Frederick W. Robertson Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. -William James "Good things happen to those who hustle." -Anais Nin Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build. -R Collier Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. -Hannah More Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. -Jim Rohn "I always prefer to believe the best of everybody -- it saves so much trouble. - Rudyard Kipling" With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. -Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world. -Paulette Mitchell Determination is the wake-up call to the human will. -Anthony Robbins Nature gave us to ends: one to sit on & one to think with. Ever since then, man's success or failure is dependent on the one he uses most. -Bloch "Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises." -Demosthenes Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself. -B Francis It is because they took the easy way out that rivers, and people, go crooked. -Jill Peterson Improvement of one's economic position is helped more by cool persistence than by hot enthusiasm. -William Feather Practice, practice, practice until you eventually get numb on rejections. -Brian Klemmer Spectacular achievements are always preceded by unspectacular preparation. -Roger Staubach Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor. -Benjamin Franklin Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth. -Julie Andrews Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. -George Eliot I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it. -Erica Jong "It's never crowded along the extra mile." -Dr Wayne Dyer Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable. -Brenda Ueland You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. -Mike Murdock Of what does not concern you, say nothing good or bad. -Italian Proverb If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old. -Lord Chesterfield There is nothing noble in being superior to another person. True nobility is in being superior to your previous self. -unknown We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. -Thornton Wilder My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. -Abraham Lincoln "Try again. Fail again. Fail better." -Samuel Beckett I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was. -Muhammad Ali Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle. -Grant M. Bright I've concluded that wealth is a state of mind & anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts. -Young "Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit." -Hosea Ballou What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? -George Eliot It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. -Albert Einstein "A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit. - Desiderius Erasmus" Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -George Santayana The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope. -Henry Ward Beecher Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. -Ralph Waldo Emerson "Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience. - Denis Waitley" If I had to live my life over again, I'd try to make more mistakes next time. -Nadine Stair I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation. -W. Somerset Maugham Experience is often what you get when you were expecting something else. -Unknown A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. -David Brinkley The person who admits ignorance shows it once; the one who tries to hide it shows it often. -Japanese Proverb "What's going on in the inside shows on the outside. - Earl Nightingale" I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done. -Henry Ford Have a dream so BIG that you cannot achieve it until you grow into the person who can. -Unknown Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is to blame. -Erica Jong It is through cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will be derived! -Ralph Charell Spend time every day listening to what your muse is trying to tell you. -Saint Bartholomew The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed. -John McDonald Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent. -Langston Coleman We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn. -Earl Nightingale "We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence and its only end." -Benjamin Disraeli The wisdom of the wise and the experience of ages may be preserved by quotation. -Benjamin Disraeli Quote It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. -Albert Einstein "Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet. - Kin Hubbard" Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down. -William M. Winans Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission. -Neil Kendall Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet. -Victor Hugo Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty. -Amiel You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them. -Albert Camus You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless. -Lou Gerstner Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work. -Charles Sawyer Winners must have two things: definite goals, and a burning desire to achieve them. -Brad Burden We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves. -Orison Swett Marden Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet. -German Proverb The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. -Albert Einstein There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply. -Josh Billings Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing. -William Feather It is by surmounting difficulties, not by sinking under them that we discover our fortitude. -Hannah Webster Foster What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds. -Wayne Dyer I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. -Stephen Leacock "In every triumph there's a lot of try." -Frank Tyger Never complain. Never explain. -Henry Ford Most people struggle with life balance because they haven't paid the price to decide what's really important to them. -Covey Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. -Simone De Beauvoir No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back. -Turkish Proverb Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. -Unknown It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened. -Philip Sidney Positive Thinking If you care at all, you'll get some results. If you care enough, you'll get incredible results. -Jim Rohn You play the way you practice. -Pop Warner "I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr." We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well. -George MacDonald We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -Kurt Vonnegut The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them. -Kimon Nicolaides As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person. -Les Brown "Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield. - Benjamin Franklin" If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent. -Sir Isaac Newton It is wonderful what may be done if we are always doing. -Thomas Jefferson "Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it. - James Allen" Self-trust is the first secret to success. -Emerson "The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right. - Peter Drucker" The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. -John Mason Brown Character is much easier kept than recovered. -Thomas Paine Is this true? "The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory." -Blaise Pascal The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. -Aristotle Onassis Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it. - Marden Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation. -Oscar Wilde "Patience will achieve more than force. -Edmund Burke " If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. -Napoleon Hill He that will watch for providences, shall never be in want for providences. -Flavel Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares. -P Ustinov "Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" To win you've got to stay in the game. -Claude M. Bristol "Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. - Douglas MacArthur" Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens. -Carl Jung No wind favors him who has no destined port. -Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves. -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count. -Kin Hubbard It is easier to catch flies with honey than with vinegar. -English proverb The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already. -Charles Haddon Spurgeon Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. -Francis Bacon "You can't act like a skunk without someone getting wind of it." -Lorene Workman The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked. -Napoleon Hill Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose. -Disraeli Your big opportunity may be right where you are now. -Napoleon Hill The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. -James Openheim Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it. -Samuel Johnson """Don't stumble over something behind you."" -Seneca " Nothing is so common as unsuccessful men with talent. They lack only determination. -Charles Swindoll Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back. -Chinese Proverb Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. -Seneca "All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord. - Earl Nightingale" Opportunities? They're all around us. There's power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it. -Orison Marden If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. -Franklin D. Roosevelt What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense. -Terence Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best that you can be is a goal that you can set for yourselves. -Bryan Lindsay If you don't program yourself, life will program you! - Les Brown "Progress is not created by contented people." -Frank Tyger Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it. -W. Clement Stone Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. -Napoleon Hill Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation. -Jack Nicklaus Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness. -Shakti Gawain "This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in. - Charles Dickens" No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. -Bertrand Russell We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. -Ben Sweetland When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run. -Abraham Lincoln The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. -Benjamin Disraeli Money cannot buy you happiness. But it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. -Spike Milligan "Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime!" -Longfellow Our greatest weariness comes from work not done. -Eric Hoffer Failure is God's own tool for carving some of the finest outlines in the character of his children. -Thomas Hodgkin Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. -Samuel Johnson If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you. -Lanes Company "What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me. - Robert Browning" "The world belongs to the energetic." -Ralph Waldo Emerson Criticism of others is futile. If you indulge in it often, you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career. -D Carnegie A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline. -Harvey MacKay Anything you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must come to reality. -Paul Meyer A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed; it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself. -Georges Clemenceau "The man who can be nothing but serious, or nothing but merry, is but half a man." -Leigh Hunt Bad habits are like chains that are too light to feel until they are too heavy to carry. -Warren Buffett "Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent." -Dr. Laurence J. Peter Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow. -Doug Firebaugh He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place. -Charles Colton Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus. -Robert South (1634-1716) If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it. -Winston Churchill It takes no more time to be courteous than to be rude. -Ann Landers The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it. -Unknown Many ideas are good for a limited time -- not forever. -Robert Townsend Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. -Emerson It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself. -Hector Hugh Munro It's not the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference. -Bear Bryant It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld If there is 1 secret to success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view & see things from his angle. -Ford The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time. -Joe Girard "Those who cherish a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in their hearts, will one day realize it. -James Allen" "Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use. - Thomas J. Watson" What I emphasize is for people to make choices based not on fear, but on what gives them a sense of fulfillment. -P. Chance Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours. -Les Brown Life is no 'brief candle' to me. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. -G.B. Shaw "People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals -- that is, goals that do not inspire them. - Tony Robbins" "What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?" -George Eliot "It may be that those who do most, dream most." -Stephen Leacock Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised. -John Bovee Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake. -Henry David Thoreau The time is always right to do what is right. -Martin Luther King, Jr Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia. -Alexis Carrel Great things are completed by talented people who believe they will accomplish them. -Warren Bennis Hard work beats all the tonics and vitamins in the world. -Col. Sanders "One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals. - Michael Korda" This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in. -Dickens Don't become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific. -Zig Ziglar Don't dwell on reality; it will only keep you from greatness. -Randall McBride, Jr. If A equals success, then the formula is A = X+Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut. -Albert Einstein Fall seven times and stand up eight. -Japanese Proverb Work at your job and make a living, work on yourself and make a fortune. ~ Jim Rohn Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see. -Arthur Schopenhauer Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of. -Benjamin Franklin That fear of missing out on things makes you miss out on everything. -Etty Hillesum In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. -Albert Camus Instead of thinking of where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes 20 years of hard work to become an overnight success. -Diana Rankin "The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past." -Andre Maurois The hardest thing to give away is kindness; it always comes back to you. -English proverb A man who finds no satisfaction in himself, seeks for it in vain else where. -Francois De La Rochefoucauld Be all you can be and live a good life -- have fun with it. -Tina Yothers The secret of discipline is motivation. When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself. -Alexander Paterson Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative. -H.G. Wells Those whose work and pleasures are one are fortune's favorite children. -Winston Churchill Opportunities multiply as they are seized; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities. -John Wicker A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions. -Oliver Wendell Holmes To live exhilarating in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort. -Barbara Grizzuti Harrison When men speak ill of you, live so as nobody may believe them. -Plato "Some books are to be tasted; others to be swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested. - Francis Bacon" Strong people are made by opposition, like kites that go up against the wind. -Frank Harris Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. -Theodore I. Rubin One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure. -William Feather Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre. -Bruce Feirstein A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well. -Louisa May Alcott Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. -Mahatma Gandhi "Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. - Napoleon Hill" Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well. -Denis Waitley Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. -Bill Gates There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself. -Louis XIV The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life -- mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical. -Julius Erving Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it. -Rex Harrison Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -Ralph Waldo Emerson The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. -Robert Frost If A equals success, then the formula is A=X + Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut. -Einstein One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. -Andre Gide Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too. -Joseph Storey "Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value." -Albert Einstein Great necessities call forth great leaders. -Abigail Adams "Whatever happens, take responsibility. - Tony Robbins" I've found luck is quite predictable. If u want more luck, take more chances. B more active. Show up more often. -Brian Tracy You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are. -Les Brown Nothing ventured, nothing gained...but if everything is ventured, and still nothing gained, give up & venture elsewhere. -Wastholm "I believe that the power to make money is a gift from God." -John D. Rockefeller "Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them. - Tom Stoppard" People will sit up and take notice of you if you will sit up and take notice of what makes them sit up and take notice. -Frank Romer "Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. - Og Mandino" Anybody can do anything that he imagines. - Henry Ford "Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. - Edmund Burke" The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time. -Sydney Smiles If little labour, little are our gains; Man's fortunes are according to his pains. -Robert Herrick "Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases." -Jeremy Collier You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down. -Ray Bradbury The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition. -Sir W.C. Van Horne When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb. -Denis Waitley Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. -Anthony J. D'Angelo The lure of the distant & the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. -John Burroughs An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field. -Niels Bohr Excellence means when a man or woman asks of themselves more than others do. -Jose Ortega Y Gasset All good is gained by those whose thought & life are kept pointed close to one main thing, not scattered upon a thousand. -McKenna Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day. -Will Durant To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business & your business in your heart. -Thomas Watson Never miss a good chance to shut up. -unknown If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat. -Herschel Walker "If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it. - Winston Churchill" Jumping at several small opportunities may get us there more quickly than waiting for one big one to come along. -Hugh Allen We can't afford to waste tears on might-have-beens. We need to turn the tears into sweat that can take us to what can be. -Waitley If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. -Derek Bok To eat an egg, you must break the shell. -Jamaican Proverb Crises refine life. In them you discover what you are. -Allan K. Chalmers To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. -Soren Kierkegaard "Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others. - Confucius" You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. -Solomon Schechter You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself. -Harvey S. Firestone "If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. - Henry David Thoreau" The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain. -Kahlil Gibran We are here to enrich the world, and we impoverish ourselves if we forget this errand. -Woodrow T. Wilson We know too much & feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs. -B Russell I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative. -Sugar Ray Robinson There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen. -Wayne Dyer "I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying. - Michael Jordan If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive. If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative. -Unknown You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims. -Harriet Woods Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. -Benjamin Franklin The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself. -B.R. Haydon Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well. -Jean Jacques Rousseau Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down. -Jimmy Durante Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. -Thomas Edison The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm. -Orison Swett Marden "No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable." -L.E. Landon Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations. -Federico Fellini Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave. -Wilson Mizner What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other? -George Eliot My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more. -Pete Rose We need the courage to start and continue what we should do, and courage to stop what we shouldn't do. -Richard L. Evans We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do. -Samuel Smiles Opportunity is a moving target, and the bigger the opportunity, the faster it moves. -Richard Gaylord Briley When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either. -Leo Burnett "Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. - Benjamin Franklin" A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stop. -Henry Brooks Adams It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test. -Elbert Hubbard "Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it. - Eileen Caddy" "Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them. - Albert Einstein" Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done. -Sam Ewing "He that is discontented in one place will seldom be content in another. - Aesop" It is a rarity to find someone who can weigh other people's faults without putting his own thumbs on the scale. -Paraguayan Proverb If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed. -David Viscott "People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson" Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other. Walter Elliot When you discover your mission...it will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it. -W. Clement Stone Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome & bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch. -R Steele "Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish. - Ovid" The basis of accomplishment is in never quitting. -Mengzi Meng-tse Never cut what can be untied. -Portuguese Proverb "Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks. - Charles Dickens" "Nothing relieves and ventilates the mind like a resolution." -John Burroughs Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles. -Samuel Smiles The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have. -Norman Vincent Peale "Everything I know I learned after I was thirty. - Georges Clemenceau" We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish. -Anthony Robbins Share the passion and action of your time, at peril of being judged not to have lived. -Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen. -Michael Jordan Something that we think is impossible now will not be impossible in another decade. -Constance Baker Motley One knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have critics overlook them & invent others. -E Wharton It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. -Winston Churchill A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one. -Benjamin Franklin "Too much of a good thing can be wonderful." -Mae West Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen Covey It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared. -Whitney Young Jr. A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better & greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble. -Gandhi "Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde" If you want to make enemies, try to change something. -Woodrow Wilson It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final. -Unknown Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose. -Benjamin Disraeli "Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed -- there's so little competition. - Elbert Hubbard" "You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems. - Mark Victor Hansen" Success is 99% failure. -Soichiro Honda Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. -Andrew Carnegie Oh man! There is no planet, sun or star that could hold you, if you but knew what you are. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Discontent is something that follows ambition like a shadow. -Henry H. Haskins There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing. -Sarah J. Hale Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible. -Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield Make voyages! Attempt them! There's nothing else. -Tennessee Williams Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration. -Jospeph Addison "Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards. - Benjamin Franklin" Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. -Sydney Smith What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog. -Dwight D. Eisenhower The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambitions. -M. De Vauvenargues We are made strong by the difficulties we face, not by those we evade. -Unknown The key to any game is to use your strengths and hide your weaknesses. -Paul Westphal The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. -Cecil B. De Mille The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration. -Babe Zaharias I start where the last man left off. -Thomas Edison Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? -John Keats Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine. -Ralph Waldo Emerson You can change all things for the better when you change yourself for the better. -Jim Rohn "Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe and enthusiastically act upon...must inevitably come to pass." -Paul Meyer My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world. -Faye Wattleton He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how. -Friedrich Nietzsche Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. -Tony Robbins Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product. -Henry Ford Perseverance is a great element of success. If u only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, u are sure to wake somebody. -Longfellow A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. -Elbert Hubbard No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. -Harry Emerson Fosdick "The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day. - Henry Ward Beecher" Many people dream of success. To me success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection. -Soichiro Honda Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations. -Richard M. DeVos "I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions but to understand them." -Baruch Spinoza Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall. -Oliver Goldsmith "If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated? - Henry David Thoreau" Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger. -Walter Bagehot When you blame others, you give up your power to change. -Dr. Robert Anthony Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. -African Proverb Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. -Thomas Edison Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains. -Emilie Cady He who is shipwrecked the second time cannot lay the blame on Neptune. -English Proverb When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents. -William Shakespeare "Everything comes too late for those who only wait." -Elbert Hubbard We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. -Woodrow T. Wilson "Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill" If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives. -Lombardi One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time. -Unknown Exceed expectations. We are not driven to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things extraordinarily well. -Bishop Gore I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning. -Johnathan Swift "Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable. - Denis Waitley" Everything comes if a man will only wait. -Benjamin Disraeli Obstacles cannot crush me, every obstacle yields to stern resolve. -Leonardo Da Vinci Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be. -H.G. Wells The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds, & words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy. -unknown Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right. -Mario Cuomo "The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph!" -Marvin Phillips Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death. -Earl Wilson No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else. -Marden I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -Mark Twain Courage is knowing what not to fear. -Napoleon Bonaparte "The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense. - Thomas Edison" Your father used to say, "Never give away your work. People don't value what they don't have to pay for." -Nancy Hale All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. -Mark Twain You may not accomplish every goal you set, but what really matters is having goals and going after them wholeheartedly. -Les Brown Don't find fault, find a remedy. -Henry Ford The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interests to promote yours. -La Bruyere He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. -Lao-Tzu You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.-Rosalynn Carter Everything you need for a better future & success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library. -Jim Rohn "The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. - William James" Magic is believing in yourself. If you can do that, you can make anything happen. -Foka Gomez A good laugh is sunshine in the house. -William Makepeace Thackeray Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past. -Tyron Edwards When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first. -Emerson You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force. -Publilius Syrus (85-43BC) There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. -Beverly Sills No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys. -Doug Horton It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. -W. Somerset Maugham The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping. -Claudius Claudianus Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity. -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe """Life is something that everyone should try at least once."" - Henry J. Tillman" Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. -La Rochefoucauld "If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done." -Bruce Lee What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? -George Eliot Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have. -Arthur E. Morgan Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution. -Robert H. Schuller If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut. -Einstein A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person. -Dave Barry Dream big dreams, then put on your overalls and go out and make the dreams come true. -Fred Van Amburgh The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. -Robert Frost Success never comes to look for you while you wait around. You've got to get up and work at making your dreams come true. -Poh Yu Khing All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. -Orison Swett Marden When a man forgets himself, he usually does something everybody else remembers. -James Coco No matter what has happened, always behave as if nothing had happened. -Arnold Bennett "We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes." -Randy K. Milholland "It's the most unhappy people who most fear change. - Mignon McLaughlin" The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present. -Barbara De Angelis Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want. -Tony Robbins "You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. - John Wooden" When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. -Napoleon Hill He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping. -Oliver Goldsmith Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it. -Alexandra David-Neel Where I am today has everything to do with the years I spent hanging on to a career by my fingernails. -Barbara Black Stumbling is not falling. -Portuguese Proverb Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest. -Beatrix Potter For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else. -Emerson Success is not counted by how high you have climbed but by how many people you brought with you. -Wil Rose We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things. -Henry Ward Beecher Activity in back of a very small idea will produce more than inactivity and the planning of a genius. -James A. Worsham A lie can travel half way around the world while truth is putting on its shoes. -Mark Twain "A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains." -Dutch proverb If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself; if it be a lie, laugh at it. -Epictetus "Difficulties exist to be surmounted." -Emerson One that does not think too highly of himself is more than he thinks. -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to. -Robert H. Schuller Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails. -Robert Half Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist. -Robert G. Allen Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them. -Les Brown Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows. -Ben Stein Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. -Ellen Glasgow "A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake. - Confucius" Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. -Benjamin Disraeli . Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze. -Barbara Sher You can be a dreamer and a doer too if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible! -Robert H. Schuller Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. -Napoleon Hill It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well. -Orison Swett Marden Nature has made occupation a necessity to us; society makes it a duty; habit may make it a pleasure. -Capelle Govern thy life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other. -Thomas Fuller Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you are indispensable, and you will move out. -Jules Ormont Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them. -Hugh Miller Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. -George Eliot Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes, there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him. -S. Johnson A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. -Oliver Wendell Holmes "There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration." -Marcus T. Cicero Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. -Robert F. Kennedy "The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. - Bertrand Russell" We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible. -Chretien Malesherbes "Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster." -Weston H. Agor You cannot tailor make your situation in life, but you can tailor make your attitudes to fit those situations. -Zig Ziglar Of all the thirty-six alternatives, running away is best. -Chinese Proverb We must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary to us than thought. -Hazlitt Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them. -Jawaharlal Nehru It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes. -Anne Baxter If well thou hast begun, go on; it is the end that crowns us, not the fight. -Robert Herrick Do your best every day and your life will gradually expand into satisfying fullness. -Horatio W. Dresser The tendency to whining & complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls & inferior intellects. -F. Jeffrey A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one. - Molière Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all. -Mark Twain A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. -Fred Estabrook "Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time. - Jim Rohn" The more wild & incredible your desire, the more willing & prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so. -C. Patmore Decide what is worthwhile and follow through with it. Real success is finding your life work in the work that you love. -Colleen McCullough One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life. -Alexander Bogomoletz Little things console us, because little things afflict us. -Pascal "Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer. - Ralph Waldo Emerson" I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up. -Beverly Sills There is a tendency for things to right themselves. -Ralph Waldo Emerson People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them. -Emerson "What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not." -Saint Augustine The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier. -Swift "Big shots are little shots who kept shooting." -Christopher Morley Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards. -Vernon Sanders Law He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides. -George P. Schultz You will never find time for anything. If you want the time, you must make it. -Charles Buxton He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes. -Chinese Proverb When any fit of gloominess lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints. -Samuel Johnson Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves. -James M. Barrie Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own. -George Bernard Shaw The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval. -Denis Waitley We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them. -Francois de La Rochefoucauld Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly. -Robert Schuller There will never be another now. I will make the most of today. There will never be another me. I will make the most of myself. -Schuller Those who try and fail are much wiser than those who never try for fear of failure. -Andre Bustanoby "Success is 99% failure." -Soichiro Honda Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures. -Gene Brown Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. -Unknown You are here to enrich the world and you impoverish yourself if you forget that errand. -Woodrow Wilson Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself. -Frank McGee Your hopes, dreams & aspirations are legit. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them. -W. James Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. -William Ellery Channing Look and you will find it; what is unsought will go undetected. -Sophocles (495-406 BC) Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. -Samuel Ullman Every noble activity makes room for itself. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too. -David Storey Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. -Horace He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions. -Samuel Johnson Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it. -Jim Rohn I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. -Angus Grossart "To have a great idea, have a lot of them. - Thomas Edison" Much unhappiness results from our inability to remember the nice things that happen to us. -W.N. Rieger There are thousands of reasons why you cannot do what you want to. All you need is one reason why you can. -Willis Whitney If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend. -Joseph Addison You will never win if you never begin. -Robert H. Schuller If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss. -Rochefoucauld Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success & happiness. -L. Binstock It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom. -Aristotle The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it. -Michael LeBoeuf It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit. -Denis Waitley Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things. -Frank A. Clark The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. - Albert Schweitzer To fight fear, act. To increase fear...wait, put off, postpone. -David J. Schwartz Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. -Charlotte Whitton Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th. -Julie Andrews "The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. - George Eliot" "Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy. - Saadi" I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. -Thomas Carlyle If people knew what they had to do to be successful, most people wouldn't. -Lord Thomson of Fleet "Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. - Richard Bach" "What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better." -Wendell Phillips Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. -Samuel Butler It is better to deserve an honor and not receive it, than to receive one and not deserve it! -Mark Twain "Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don't go through life creaking." -H. W. Byles Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence. -Unknown "Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise. - Cato the Elder" Every problem contains the seeds of its own solution. -Stanley Arnold That which is beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful. -Ninon de L'Enclos "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." -Oscar Wilde The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -Elbert Hubbard Your life can't go according to plan if you have no plan. -Unknown Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid. - Dorothea Brande "Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness. - William Gladstone" "Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people." -Laurence Peter """Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair."" - Thomas Hobbes" """The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."" - e e cummings" Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision. -Anthony Robbins Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase. -Dottie Walters Believe in yourself and there will come a day when others will have no choice but to believe with you. -Cynthia Kersey You are a slave to what you do say, a master of what you don't say. -Unknown Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at. -Lyn Karol A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself. -Frances Ward Weller Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work. -Gustave Flaubert Think success, visualize success, and you will set in motion the power force of the realizable wish. -Norman Vincent Peale "The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. - William James" We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond. -Marcel Proust "Being defeated is often only a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent..." -Marilyn vos Savant I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. -Frank Wright Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions. -Albert Einstein It's hard to beat a person who never gives up. -Babe Ruth There never was yet a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. -Benjamin Franklin "All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas -- not money. - Robert Collier" "If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." -Cicero A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We are so busy doing the urgent that we don't have time to do the important. -Confucius "You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time." -J.S. Knox If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results. -Jack Dixon ...nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy. -August J. Strindberg You don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great. -Les Brown To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. =Robert Louis Stevenson "The law of attraction is this: You don't attract what you want. You attract what you are. -Dr. Wayne Dyer" Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. -David Frost Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile. -Pierre Coneille Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether. -Thomas Carlyle Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital. -Daniel Webster (1782-1852) Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. -Mary Kay Ash You win only if you aren't afraid to lose. -Rocky Aoki "When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn't an option. It's a necessity." - Steve Pavlina Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize. -Elizabeth Harrison "Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing. - Confucius" "The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. - Michel de Montaigne" The most ominous of fallacies: the belief that things can be kept static by inaction. -Freya Stark Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. -Seneca I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive. -Schaef Keep the other person's well-being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on. -Betty White Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you; never speak of them, and don't ask about them. -St. Teresa of Avila Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths. -Johann von Goethe "A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. - Benjamin Franklin" I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. -Abraham Lincoln Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible. -Frank Gaines Influence: What you think you have until you try to use it. -Joan Welsh Another advantage of being rich is that all your faults are called eccentricities. -Anonymous Realize that if you have time to whine & complain about something then you have the time to do something about it. -A. D'Angelo As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. -Benjamin Disraeli Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. -Samuel Beckett The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy. -Ben Stein First we make our habits, then our habits make us. -Charles C. Noble Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought. -William Hazlitt When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. -Henry Miller I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. -Einstein We should not criticise those who trip by taking a more difficult than usual step. -Dick Hubbard The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources. -Goethe Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily. -Arthur Brisbane We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves. -Brian Tracy The first and the best victory is to conquer self. -Plato "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. - Henry David Thoreau" Goals are as essential to success as air is to life. -David J. Schwartz Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been. -Arthur Ransome If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve. -Brian Tracy Crises and deadlocks, when they occur, have at least this advantage, that they force us to think. -Jawaharlal Nehru The difference between perseverance & obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will & the other from a strong won't. -Beecher "An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." -Benjamin Franklin Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars. -Joan L. Curcio "A room without books is like a body without a soul. - Cicero" Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you. -Bishop Steere "Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. -Ovid" If you would be powerful, pretend to be powerful. -Horne Tooke Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous. -Abd-el-Kadar Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory. -Mahatma Gandhi Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people. -Thomas L. Masson We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way. -Earl Nightingale Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. -Henry David Thoreau "Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock." - Pablo Picasso "Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go." -William Feather It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -Seneca Charity begins at home, and generally dies from lack of outdoor exercise. -Unknown Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others. -Braude "To be great is to be misunderstood." -Ralph Waldo Emerson Success is full of promise till men get it; and then it is last year's nest from which the bird has flown. -Beecher The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. -Winston Churchill Geniuses themselves don't talk about the gift of genius, they just talk about hard work and long hours. -J.C. Penney For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. -Aristotle If you want your dreams to come true, don't over sleep. -Yiddish Proverb Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. -John Wooden Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope. -Epictetus We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Good judgment comes from experience, and experience -- well, that comes from poor judgment. -Cousin Woodman No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other. -J. Heifetz The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn. -David Russell Your attitude about who you are and what you have is a very little thing that makes a very big difference. -Theodore Roosevelt Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. -Anais Nin "Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die." -Goethe Make yourself indispensable and you'll be moved up. Act as if you're indispensable and you'll be moved out. -Jules Ormont "When inspiration does not come to me, I go half way to meet it." -Sigmund Freud It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome. -W. James Set too many goals and keep adding more goals. Goals have a tendency to be realized all at once. -Mark Victor Hansen Hope is the anchor of the soul, the stimulus to action, and the incentive to achievement. -Unknown "Life consists in what man is thinking of all day." -Emerson It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them. -Joanna Field Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you. -Wayne Dyer Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy. -Sir Isaac Newton It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others. -Michel Eyquem De Montaigne To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. -Spinoza "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. - Thomas Jefferson" It is not a lucky word, this name "impossible"; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths. -Thomas Carlyle Tough times never last, but tough people do. -Robert Schuller Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. -Babe Ruth "Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. - Samuel Johnson" While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us. -Benjamin Franklin A man carries his success or his failure with him, it does not depend on outside conditions. -Ralph Waldo Trine High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. -Jack Kinder If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just. -Anita Roddick A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way. -John McDonald He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. -Henry Ward Beecher The obstacle is the path. -Zen Saying Get in touch with the way the other person feels. Feelings are 55% body language, 38% tone and 7% words. -Unknown Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. -T.S. Eliot A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds. -Unknown Don't let what you can't do, stop you from doing what you can do. -John Wooden "The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it." -Will Foley When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable. -Unknown Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down. -Unknown Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. -Samuel Butler A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. -Dickens Do you agree with this? "Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning." -Bergen Evans If you want something postponed, give it to a committee. -Charles Kettering Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -Thomas Edison This is where you will win the battle -- in the playhouse of your mind. -Maxwell Maltz We have more strength than will; and when we say things are impossible, it is often just excuses we make for ourselves. -La Rochefoucauld He who reflects too much will achieve little. -JCF von Schiller Don't go through life, grow through life. -Eric Butterworth Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. -James Baldwin There is no such thing as chance and what seems to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny. -Von Schiller You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes. -Denis Waitley We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there. -Charles F. Kettering God's delays are not God's denials. -Robert H. Schuller No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back. -Romanian proverb The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was. -Walt West "If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary." - Jim Rohn Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing. -Wayne Dyer I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me. -Joseph Jefferson Life is full of obstacle illusions. -Grant Frazier The good things that belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired. -Seneca "When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees." -Kenneth Kaunda In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it. -Norman Vincent Peale Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. -George Bernard Shaw Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands. -Zig Ziglar You will be happier if you will give people a bit of your heart rather than a piece of your mind. -Unknown Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause. -Henry Ward Beecher Do one thing every day that scares you. -Eleanor Roosevelt No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example. -Paul Dickson Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records. -William A. Ward So celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed. -Mia Hamm No matter how bad things get you've got to go on living, even if it kills you. -Sholom Aleichem "Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task." -William James The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have. -Anna Quindlen If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. -Proust The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action. -Andre Godin Good quote by Leonardo da Vinci: "God sells us all things at the price of labor." Learn to pause...or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you. -Doug King Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. -Ralph Waldo Emerson He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him. -Moorish Proverb I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. -Winston Churchill It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist. -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not. -Giacomo Leopardi When we accept tough jobs as a challenge and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen. -Arland Gilbert "Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye." -Austin O'Malley "Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more. - William Cowper" The secret of patience: do something else in the meantime. -unknown Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold. -Maurice Setter The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later. -Ralph Waldo Emerson If you try to do too much, you will not achieve anything. -Confucius "Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible. - Leo Tolstoy" I can live for two months on a good compliment. -Mark Twain Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then. -Samuel Johnson More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them. -Harold J. Smith Is this true? - "It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy." -Dr. Howard Murphy What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I had realized it sooner. -Colette He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed. -Socrates Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. -Tony Robbins The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year. -J.Dulles """If you put fences around people, you get sheep."" -William McKnight" The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. -Peter Drucker The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. -Thomas Traherne All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. -Ralph Waldo Emerson We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do. -Olin Miller ! I don't care what anybody says about me, as long as it isn't true. -Dorothy Parker There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient. -Sri Sivananda I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat. -Tom Landry Where the heart is willing it will find a thousand ways, but where it is unwilling it will find a thousand excuses. -Dayak Proverb We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. -Lloyd Alexander There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will. -Napoleon Hill Most of the happy people I know do some one thing well. -L. Jay Silvester You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. -Leo Aikman A ship in harbor is safe - but that is not what ships are for. -John A. Shedd Activity makes more men's fortunes than cautiousness. -Marquis de Vauvenargues You must act as if it is impossible to fail. -Ashanti Proverb Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible. -Earl of Chesterfield We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us. -Denis Diderot I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me. -Dudley Field Malone Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result. -Oscar Wilde Be not deceived with the first appearance of things, for show is not substance. -English Proverb "Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours." - Richard Bach The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. -Oscar Wilde "If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow." -William McFee Hope is not a dream, but a way of making dreams become reality. -L.J. Cardinal Suenens Beware of trying to accomplish anything by force. -Angela Merici When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. -Helen Keller Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become. -T McNair Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives. -Viktor Frankl Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and abilities were used in a way that served others. -M. Williamson "There is always hope for an individual who stops to do some serious thinking about life." -Katherine Logan The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire, not things we fear. -Brian Tracy It is better to write down something once than read it ten times. -Japanese Proverb Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. -Mark Twain "Life is not a goblet to be drained; it is a measure to be filled." -unknown The measure of success is not if you have a tough problem to deal with, but if it's the same problem you had last year. -Dulles A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour. -Elbert Hubbard For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is. -Goethe Make yourself indispensable & you'll be moved up. Act as if you're indispensable & you'll be moved out. -Jules Ormont Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far. - Will Rogers "We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything." -Blaise Pascal Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present. -W Landor "Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition. - Abraham Lincoln" "He that speaks much, is much mistaken. - Benjamin Franklin" There was a man and they called him mad; the more he gave the more he had. -Bunyan Great people are created by great mistakes that are learned from, not from great successes that are gloated upon. -Elmer Clark No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable. -Letitia Elizabeth Landon The slow man with integrity will ultimately catch the swift one who has none. -Unknown We are always getting ready to live, but never living. -Ralph Waldo Emerson The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. -Ellen Parr "The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why." -Warren Bennis Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you. -Nisaragada Ha Maharaj I am willing to go anywhere, anywhere, anywhere -- so long as it's forward. -David Livingston "The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one. - Ralph Waldo Emerson" Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will. -NV Peale "Experience keeps a school, yet fools will learn in no other. - Benjamin Franklin" "Folks never understand the folks they hate. - James Russell Lowell" The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does. -Napolean Hill Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests. -Brian Tracy Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets. -Nido Qubein One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests. -John Stuart Mill Unless a man has been kicked around a little, you can't really depend upon him to amount to anything. -William Feather "The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships. - Tony Robbins" We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays. -Persius "It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities." -Eric Hoffer "Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. - Vince Lombardi" "He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions. - Samuel Johnson" "Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love." - David McCullough Chance favors only those who court her. -Charles Nicolle If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy. -A.P. Gouthey Contentment is a pearl of great price & whoever procures it at the expense of 10,000 desires makes a wise & a happy purchase. -Balguy When thinking won't cure fear, action will. -W. Clement Stone We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it. -Peter F. Drucker "What people say behind your back is your standing in the community. -E. W. Howe" Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest. -Unknown What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do. -Unknown Reading makes a full man, conversation a ready man, and writing an exact man. -Bacon Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight. -Anita DeFrantz "Brevity is a great charm of eloquence. - Cicero" Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half of the evil they say of others. -J. Petit Senn "We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened. -Emerson" What you pursue, you don't get. But what you allow to grow slowly in its own way, comes to you. -Rabbi Pinhas It is better to wear out than to rust out. -Cumberland "You cannot kill time without injuring eternity. - Henry David Thoreau" "You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are. - Les Brown" Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true. -Hill They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed. -Socrates The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. -Benjamin Disraeli To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself. -Soren Kierkegaard All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. -Edward Gibbon Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today. -Robert H. Schuller Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours. -Doug Larson "If you don't have a plan of life, you'll never have order." -Josemaria Escriva I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist. -Max Lerner Never face facts; if you do you'll never get up in the morning. -Marlo Thomas Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. -Alexander Pope Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world. -Goethe "Life will give you what you ask of her if only you ask long enough and plainly enough." -unknown Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you. -James Dillet Freeman There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul. -Ella Wheeler Wilcox A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones. -Earl of Chesterfield "You can have anything in the world you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want. - Zig Ziglar" Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed; there's so little competition. -Elbert Hubbard "Eating words has never given me indigestion. - Winston Churchill" Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played. -Grant Bright We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out. -Orison Swett Marden Every man has his own destiny; the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it no matter where it leads him. -Henry Miller In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot. -HW Beecher Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values. -Joshua L. Liebman A man who knows he is a fool is not a great fool. -Chuang Tzu You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose. -Lou Holtz Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good. -Benjamin Franklin Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy. -Jim Hightower "To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power." -F.W. Robertson There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover & use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become. -Marden The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away. -Charles Schwab I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way. -J.C. Penny "The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows." -- Aristotle Onassis A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results. -Ella Wilcox Opportunities multiply as they are seized. -Sun Tzu "The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most. - Eppie Friedman" Be the change you want to see in the world. -Mahatma Gandhi Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress. -Thomas Edison Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other. - Oscar Wilde There is no danger of developing eyestrain from looking on the bright side of things. -Unknown Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. -NV Peale The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory. -Ted W. Engstrom Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life. -Unknown Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting. -Napoleon Hill Death does not frighten me, but dying obscurely and above all uselessly does. -Isabelle Eberhardt If you're in a good profession, it's hard to get bored, because you're never finished - there will always be work you haven't done. -Julia Child I suppose that leadership at one time meant muscle; but today it means getting along with people. -Indira Gandhi Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. -Andre Gide Inspirational Quotes The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. -Bishop W.C. Magee The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. -Doug Larson No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto. -W. Clement Stone It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. -Antoine De Saint-Exupery "Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. - Emily Dickinson" All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness. -Tennessee Williams "Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr." Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing. -Unknown Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force. -Paul Vernon Buser The clue is not to ask in a miserly way -- the key is to ask in a grand manner. -Ann Wigmore "Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean. - Confucius" The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do. -Orison Swett Marden "Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after. - Henry David Thoreau" It does not matter how slowly you do so long as you do not stop. -Confucius Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise. -Cato Action is the foundational key to all success. -Pablo Picasso Hold yourself to a higher standard than anyone expects of you. Never excuse yourself. -Henry Ward Beecher If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us. -Unknown There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher. -Henry Van Dyke "This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure. - Winston Churchill" Men's best successes come after their disappointments. -Henry Ward Beecher Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly. -Louis L. Mann A minute of success pays for years of failure. -Robert Browning Nothing is worth more than this day. -Goethe Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her. -Twain "Go for it now. The future is promised to no one." -Wayne Dyer "Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so he is. - Publilius Syrus" Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead. -Les Brown Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us beautiful and brave. -Rainer Maria Rilke Income seldom exceeds personal development. -Jim Rohn Often God has to shut a door in our face, so that He can subsequently open the door through which He wants us to go. -C. Marshall We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win. -Edward Gibbon "As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. - Henry David Thoreau" Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul. -Eric Hoffer Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. -John F. Kennedy Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service & character. -W Ward No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. -Alice Walker The man who is born with a talent which he is meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it. -Goethe The time your game is most vulnerable is when you're ahead, never let up. -Rod Laver Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. -Sophia Loren We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns. -Orison Swett Marden The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. -Peale If you want to reach a goal, you must "see the reaching" in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal. -Zig Ziglar They say a person needs 3 things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for. -Tom Bodett Dream what you dare to dream. Go where you want to go. Be what you want to be. -Calvin Coolidge It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty. -Florida Scott-Maxwell Constant dripping hollows out a stone. -Lucretius Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost. -Goethe Why not spend some time determining what is worthwhile for us, and then go after that? -William Ross Some people bear three kinds of trouble: the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have. -Edward Hale Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event. -Brian Tracy "Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. - Earl of Chesterfield" Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing. -Denis Waitley "I can live for two months on a good compliment. - Mark Twain" "Our aspirations are our possibilities. - Robert Browning" "Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. - Eleanor Roosevelt" When prosperity comes, do not use all of it. -Confucius "It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. - Tony Robbins" Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. -Albert Einstein "Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." -Conrad Hilton Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality. -Earl Nightingale "Silence is one of the great arts of conversation." -Hannah More "How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character. - Henry David Thoreau" Life is a comedy for those who think...and a tragedy for those who feel. -Horace Walpole Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. -Dag Hammarskjöld He who stops being better stops being good. -Oliver Cromwell "Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. - John Adams" A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days. -Goethe We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. -George Bernard Shaw "Children have more need of models than of critics." -Joseph Joubert Don't complain that you are not getting what you want; just be glad you are not getting what you deserve! -Unknown I believe in hard work. It keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit. -Helena Rubinstein If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it. -William A. Ward I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth. -Pearl S. Buck Big shots are only little shots who keep on shooting. -Christopher Morley "The only person who ever got his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe." -A.J. Marshall "Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. - Napoleon Hill" "I cannot," never accomplished anything; "I will try," has wrought wonders. -J. Hawes By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. -Robert Frost Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. -Phyllis Theroux Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. -George E. Woodberry A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage. -Sydney Smith "Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better. - Jim Rohn" Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it. -Ernest Holmes Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. -Andre Gide It's never too late-in fiction or in life-to revise. -Nancy Thayer "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." -Edith Wharton Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping. -Thomas Hood Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. -Newt Gingrich How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. -Anne Frank When you work seven days a week, fourteen hours a day, you get lucky. -Armand Hammer All through nature, you will find the same law. First the need, then the means. -Robert Collier I frequently-regularly-often trip while reaching for my high ideals. Then I giggle, or cry, and get back up. -Erika Harris Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. -George S. Patton Most people fail in life because they major in minor things. -Anthony Robbins No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. -Charles Dickens Three things in human life are important. The 1st is to be kind. The 2nd is to be kind. And the 3rd is to be kind. -Henry James There is no point at which you can say, "Well I am successful now, I might as well relax". -Carrie Fisher When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. -Francois De La Rochefoucauld The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries. -Rene Descartes Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water. -Swedish Proverb One day is as good as two for the person who does everything in its place. -French Proverb Chance is the providence of adventurers. -Napoleon Bonaparte If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win. -Carl Lewis "Self-worth comes from one thing -- thinking that you are worthy. - Wayne Dyer" You return and again take the proper course, guided by what? By the picture in mind of the place you are headed for. -John McDonald The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing. -Winifred Holtby The secret to success is constancy to purpose. -Benjamin Disraeli Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. -John Steinbeck The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does. -Unknown You can only improve on saying nothing by saying nothing often. -Frank Tyger "The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it." -Moliere Strong reasons make strong actions. -William Shakespeare "Jests that give pains are no jests. - Miguel de Cervantes" Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. -Zig Ziglar One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. -Benjamin Disraeli The measure of a man's value is the degree to which he has made a difference in the lives of those he has touched. -J Strange Let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average. -A.W. Tozer "Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited. - Napoleon Hill" What might not happen in a year might happen in an instant. -Puerto Rican Proverb Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character. -Horace (BC65-8) "Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts. - Tony Robbins" Carpe Diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary. -Robin Williams "I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back. - Phillips Brooks" We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible. -La Rochefoucauld "At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. - Benjamin Franklin" The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. -Herbert Kaufman "Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th." -J. Andrews Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat. -Caroline Schoeder There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win. -Les Brown "Change your thoughts and you change your world." -Norman Vincent Peale A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact that everything has happened for the best. -Unknown No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you. -Althea Gibson Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway. -Eleanor Roosevelt Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. -T.S. Eliot The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. -Thomas Carlyle What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? -George Eliot There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. -OS Marden If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average. -M.H. Alderson Victory belongs to the most persevering. -Napoleon Bonaparte The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. -Confucius "Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones." -Benjamin Disraeli No man who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life. -Samuel Goldwyn Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities. -Peale We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. -Honore De Balzac Opportunities are usually disguised by hard work, so most people don't recognize them. -Ann Landers It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them. -Barbara Ward There is no security in this world. There is only opportunity. -General Douglas MacArthur There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. -Benjamin Franklin "Other people and things can stop you temporarily. You're the only one who can do it permanently." -Zig Ziglar Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along. -Yogananda Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience. -Benjamin Franklin Opportunities multiply as they are seized, they die when neglected. -John Wicker Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes; work never begun. -Christina Rossetti "You always pass failure on the way to success." -Mickey Rooney Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. -James Levin The winner persistently programs his pluses; the loser mournfully magnifies his minuses. -William A. Ward It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted. -Mary O'Connor Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. -Soren Kierkegaard We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself. -Samuel Butler "You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. - Vernon Howard" Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner. -Les Brown Failure doesn't mean you are a failure...it just means you haven't succeeded yet. -Robert Schuller Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. -Walter Elliott It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failings than to point out those of another. -Jawaharlal Nehru "A nail is driven out by another nail; habit is overcome by habit." -Desiderius Erasmus You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile. -Brian Tracy Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it. -Shakti Gawain We're all pilgrims on the same journey -- but some pilgrims have better road maps. -Nelson Demille There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there's an open mind, there'll always be a frontier. -Kettering "Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. - Napoleon Hill" Yard by yard, it's hard. Inch by inch, it's a cinch. -Unknown The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. -Bertrand Russell "A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude. -Oscar Wilde" To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past. -Charles J. Givens Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. -Dowden If you don't program yourself, life will program you! -Les Brown Brevity is a great charm of eloquence. -Cicero Give me a man who says, "This one thing I do," and not, "These fifty things, I dabble in." -Dwight L. Moody Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. -David Starr Jordan An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. -Irv Kupcinet Only the mediocre are always at their best. -Jean Giraudoux Nothing limits achievement like small thinking. Nothing equals possibilities like unleashed thinking. -William Arthur Ward "Idleness is the burial of a living man." -Jeremy Taylor A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm. -Charles M. Schwab "Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do." -H. Jackson Brown, Jr Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true. -Brian Tracy "Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. -Alfred Whitehead" The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage. -Arie de Geus Build a dream and the dream will build you. -Robert Schuller If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh We, whoever we are, must have a daily goal in our lives, no matter how small or great, to make that day mean something. -Maxwell Maltz "If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. - Anatole France" "Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago." -Bernard Berenson Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts. -Jules Ellinger For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward. -Jim Rohn If anyone is not willing to accept your point of view, try to see his point of view. -Lebanese Proverb We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them. -Evelyn Waugh Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. -James Stephens A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes. -Fyodor Dostoyevsky I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars. -Jacqueline Cochran The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. -Pablo Picasso Hold up your head! You were not made for failure. You were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence. -George Eliot Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice. -Wayne Dyer Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed. -Henry Miller Abundant effort compensates for sparse talent. -Larry Hehn Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth. -Joseph Joubert Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. -Schweitzer "Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others - Helen Keller" If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away? -Lord Chesterfield What you become directly influences what you get. -Jim Rohn "Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. - Mark Twain" You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. -Walt Disney They're only truly great who are truly good. -George Chapman Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? -Martin Luther King "The greatest things ever done on earth have been done little by little." -Robert Half If you can imagine it, you can create it. If you dream it, you can become it. -William Arthur Ward "I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it." -Jonathan Winters Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful. -Zig Ziglar Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you. -William Blake Find the grain of truth in criticism -- chew it and swallow it. -Don Sutton Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather. -David Hare Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents & capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so. -Lessing That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way. -Doris Lessing Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. -Napoleon Hill Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success. -Oliver Goldsmith We become so used to disguising ourselves to others, that we end up becoming disguised to ourselves. -La Rochefoucauld What distinguishes us from one another is our dreams, and what we do to make them come about. -Joseph Epstein 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 "There is more to life than increasing its speed." -Mahatma Gandhi Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. -Charlie Chaplin If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. -Franklin The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. -Albert Einstein He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy. -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together. -Napoleon Hill It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish. -Heraclitus "Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us. - Earl Nightingale" Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors. -Louisa May Alcott "It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean. - Tony Robbins" When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm & a burning desire to get to work on it. -Stone We are under the spell always of what is distant from us. It is not in our nature to desire passionately what is near at hand. -Alec Waugh Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey. -Alex Noble "As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. -George Bernard Shaw The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity will not attain great prosperity. -Tibetan Proverb Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life. -Alan Lakein Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries is not the goal but the exercise. -E.V. Cooke Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you. -Arnold Palmer He is no fool who gives that which he cannot keep in order to gain that which he cannot lose. -Unknown "Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. - Thomas Edison" "In order to win, you must expect to win. - Richard Bach" Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. -Henry David Thoreau What's got badly, goes badly. -Irish proverb "Resolved: To live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand ages hence." -Jonathan Edwards "The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations. - George Santayana" If it's not fun, you are not doing it right. -Fran Tarkenton Success is sweet, the sweeter if long delayed and attained through maulfold struggles and defeats. -A. Bronson Alcott We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire. -Rochefoucauld - or Like Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. -Og Mandino It was a bold person that first ate an oyster. -Jonathan Swift "Opportunities? They are all around us. There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it. -OS Marden" There is no such thing as a great talent without great will-power. -Honore De Balzac "I read my eyes out and can't read half enough. The more one reads the more one sees we have to read. -John Adams" One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment. -Merle Shain "One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity. - Albert Schweitzer" "He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever." -Chinese proverb Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. -Albert Einstein A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. -John Shedd One of the most valuable things any person can learn is the art of using the knowledge and experience of others. -Napoleon Hill Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts. -Nikki Giovanni "You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force. - Publilius Syrus" A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work. -Sir John Lubbock This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. -Augustine of Hippo The poor get poorer by acting rich and the rich get richer by acting poor. -unknown The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: Do more of what you do... -David J. Schwartz It is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day-to-day basis. -Margaret Bonnano One arrow does not bring down two birds. -Turkish Proverb What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable. -Adlai E. Stevenson Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong. -Baltasar Gracian (1601-1658) I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth. -Pearl Buck How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is. -Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. -Swift To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: "Leave no stone unturned." -E. Lytton Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great? -Jimmy Johnson "Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. - Richard Bach" Success comes in cans...not in can'ts. -Dirk Vander Lende Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them. -Carl Schurz To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly. -O.W. Holmes In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you wake in the morning. -Carl Sandburg Confidence is the result of hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication. -Roger Staubach "A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words. -Phillips Brooks" The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss. -Diane Ravitch To have a great idea, have a lot of them. -Thomas Edison No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him. -Napoleon Hill Opportunity's favorite disguise is trouble. -Frank Tyger You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. -John Wooden "At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person." -Albert Schweitzer Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument. -Richard Whately If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time. -Fran Tarkenton One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. -James Russell Lowell "It is terrible to speak well and be wrong. - Sophocles" I have discovered that all human evil comes from this: man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone. -Pascal If you chase two hares at the same time, you will catch neither of them. -Ukrainian Proverb A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone. -Swift It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it. -Robert Collier Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul. -Sir J. Stephen A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus. -Thomas Carlyle "Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt." -Jose Ortega Y Gasset Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough . -Benjamin Franklin Losers have tons of variety. Champions just take pride in learning to hit the same old boring winning shots. -Vic Braden "To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. - Confucius" What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might. -Cicero No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today. -Brendan Francis "I like work, it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours." -Jerome K. Jerome "All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts. - James Allen" Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn. -John Wesley Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything. -Goethe (1749-1832) "Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor." -Ulysses S. Grant What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not. -St. Augustine Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in. -William IV Eardley He who reins within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. -John Milton """Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you."" - Wally 'Famous' Amos" "Only that day dawns to which we are awake." -Henry David Thoreau (WAKE UP!!) A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income. -Earl of Chesterfield People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy. -Samuel Butler One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. -Amos Bronson Alcott The people you need to help you make your dream come true are everywhere, and within your reach. -Marcia Wieder Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. -Norman Ralph Augustine To improve is to change. To be perfect is to have changed a lot. -Winston Churchill There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from. -Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. -Horace Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving. -Dennis Waitley "He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear." -Emerson Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful. -Malcolm Forbes When you expect the best, you release a force in your mind that tends to bring out the best in you. -Unknown If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor. -Jennifer Jones Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. -Watterson Lowe My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there." -Charles F. Kettering "No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined." -Fosdick "I have often regretted my speech, never my silence." - Xenocrates We all leave footprints in the sand; the question is, will we be a big heal, or a great soul. -Anonymous A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements. -Marden Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -George Bernard Shaw Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor. -John Milton Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. -William James The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it. -Frank A. Clark Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours. -Boone T. Pickens Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble. -George Washington Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming. -John Wooden Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do. -Edgar Roberts The world is a great book, of which they who stir not from home read only a page. -St Augustine "The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. -Benjamin Disraeli" Always aim for achievement, and forget about success. -Helen Hayes What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree? -Logan Smith A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life. -William Ward "Life is too important to be taken too seriously." -Oscar Wilde Trust cannot thrive in an environment where we preach teamwork and cooperation, but seldom recognize or reward it. -Wayne Bills Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones. -Ben Franklin Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. -William B. Sprague You are the only person on earth who can use your ability. -Zig Ziglar Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. -Aristotle The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. -Mark Twain "From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own." -Syrus We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it. -Mignon McLaughlin "Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. - John F. Kennedy" Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity. -Alberta Flanders We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are. -Max de Pree Ideas without action are worthless. -Harvey MacKay Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there. -Mortimer B. Zuckerman "Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest. - Laurence Sterne" It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late. -Marilyn Moats Kennedy As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. Ben Hogan I learned quickly that when I made others laugh, they liked me. -Art Buchwald I have got two reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them. -Betty Grable Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. -George Santayana When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration. -Robert Bresson "A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm." -Charles Schwab The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you. -Nancy Astor It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt. -Abraham Lincoln The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too. -Herbert Samuels If we are going to be made into wine, we will have to be crushed; you cannot drink grapes. -Oswald Chambers "Maybe you are here on earth to learn that life is what you make it, and it's to be enjoyed." -Dick Sutphen No man is a failure who is enjoying life. -William Feather Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost. -Robert Schuller I would prefer a thousand times to receive reproofs than to give them to others. -St. Theresa of Lisieux Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. -Goethe It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. -Ayn Rand Disappointments are to the soul what thunderstorms are to the air. -Johann Schiller I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. -Thomas Edison Don't let making a living interfere with making a life. -John Wooden The man who has accomplished all that he thinks worthwhile has begun to die. -E.T. Trigg The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. -Charles Kettering Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. -Mark Twain Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses. -Brian Tracy "Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds." -Albert Einstein You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning. -Barbara Sher "The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it. -William Faulkner" Success comes from having dreams that are bigger than your fears. -Terry Litwiller "Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author." -Johnson Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds. -Grenville Kleiser Do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. -Twain "Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them. - Andre Maurois" Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed. -Edward Young "Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. - Joseph Addison" One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison. -Johann von Schiller The difference between failure & success is doing a thing nearly right and doing it exactly right. -Edward Simmons If you chase two rabbits, both will escape. -Unknown Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities. -Napoleon Hill There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success. -Max Beerbohm You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment. -Les Brown This is the best day the world has ever seen. Tomorrow will be better. -R.A. Campbell "Believe in yourself. If you don't, then no one else will have a reason to" ~John Di Lemme Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out. -John Wooden You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. -Michael Jordan Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. -Antonio Smith Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest. -Benjamin Franklin If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. -Dale Carnegie He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself. -Philip Massinger "He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'." - Friedrich Nietzsche The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. -Japanese Proverb Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. -Henri-Frederic Amiel All things are difficult before they are easy. -Thomas Fuller "The more chance there is of stubbing your toe, the more chance you have of stepping into success. -Anonymous" Imposing limitations on yourself is cowardly because it protects you from having to try, and perhaps failing. -Vladimir Zworykin We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained. -Marie Curie Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. -James B. Conant Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable. -Denis Waitley Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. -Edward Bulwer-Lytton Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for. -Leszczynski Stanislaus One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests. -John Stuart Mill A failure is like fertilizer--it stinks to be sure, but it makes things grow faster in the future. -Dennis Waitley "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." - Mark Twain A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over. -Benjamin Franklin Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. -Doug Larson Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. -Anais Nin Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. Francis Bacon You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself. -Zig Ziglar We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes. -Randy K. Milholland Our years, our debts, and our enemies are always more numerous than we imagine. -Charles C. Noble Whatever with the past is gone; the best is always yet to come. -Lucy Larcom Everyone has talent at 25. The difficulty is to have it at 50. -Edgar Degas He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. -Henry Ward Beecher When I was a young man I observed that 9 out of 10 things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did 10 times more work. -Shaw "Shallow men believe in luck." -Ralph Waldo Emerson He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom & will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause. -Beecher Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway. -Emory Austin If we do not discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us. -William Feather Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. -Napoleon Hill "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. - Mignon McLaughlin" Anyone know a good affiliate program for a good self-improvement product? Looking for one to offer to my list. True luck consists not in holding the best cards at the table; luckiest he who knows just when to rise and go home. -John Hay "Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is to blame." -Erica Jong I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often. -Brian Tracy No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime, let out all the length of all the reins. -Cholmondeley Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime, and too sleepy to worry at night. -Leo Aikman The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen. -Lee Iacocca Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it. -O.S. Marden "Obviously, there is little you can learn from doing nothing. -Zig Ziglar" There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others. -George Shinn Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. -Les Brown The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. -Og Mandino "The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going." -David Starr Jordan You do not succeed because you do not know what you want, or you don't want it intensely enough. -Frank Crane "You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." -unknown Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. -Plato Be wiser than other people, if you can; but do not tell them so. -Philip Chesterfield Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it. -T.S. Eliot The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. -Walter Bagehot Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it. -Jules Renard To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world. -Unknown Sometimes you've got to jump off cliffs and grow wings on the way down. -Ray Bradbury Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. -John Locke There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. -Robert Half Half of today is better than all of tomorrow. -Jean De La Fontaine A bad conscience has a very good memory. -Unknown Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity. -Bruyere Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. -Dr Joyce Brothers You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you feeling otherwise. -J Newman Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do. -Unknown Govern thy life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other. -Kal Menninger I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart. -Vincent Van Gogh If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. -Jim Rohn The mark of a motivated man is his ability to distinguish a setback from a defeat. -unknown You are more likely to act yourself into feelings, than feel yourself into action. -Dr. Jerome Brunner "If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost." - Zig Ziglar If you insist on living your life as a worm, do not be surprised when you are trodden upon. -unknown Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. -Emerson An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it. -Roy Ash No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. -Francois Muriac He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Failure doesn't mean that we are off the track to success. It merely forces us to take a detour to success. -Unknown Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history. -Joan Scott "I will prepare and some day my chance will come. " - Abraham Lincoln Sometimes a winner is just a dreamer that never gave up. -Unknown It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. -Saint-Exupery Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love & inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. -Ella Fitzgeral The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people. -Mary Rinehart The men who try to do something & fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing & succeed. -Lloyd Jones You don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great. -Les Brown A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -Mark Twain "Integrity is the essence of everything successful. - Buckminster Fuller" Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely. -Karen Kaiser Clark "He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how. - Friedrich Nietzsche" I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue. -Xenocrates of Chalcedon With the catching ends the pleasures of the chase. -Abraham Lincoln "Those whom you can make like themselves better will, I promise you, like you very well." -Lord Chesterfield When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for. -Benjamin Haydon If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. -Gail Sheehy If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin. -Ivan Turgenev It is right to be contented with what we have, but never with what we are. -James Mackintosh A day without work can yield a night without sleep. -Albanian Proverb Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. -Will Rogers Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations. -Charles Richter """Regret for wasted time is more wasted time."" - Mason Cooley" All doors open to courtesy. -Thomas Fuller M.D. "My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. - Charles Kettering" Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood. - Mary Hirsch Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work. -HL Hunt The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. -Andrew Carnegie Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. -Aristotle Success lies in doing not what others consider to be great but what you consider to be right. -John Gray Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you. -Marsha Norman "He who does not advance, recedes." -Latin proverb "To win you've got to stay in the game. - Claude M. Bristol" Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. -Voltaire If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. -Jim Rohn It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life. -Katharine Butler Hathaway Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. -James Buckham "The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man. - Leigh Hunt" "When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. - Thomas Szasz" The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. -Jean Jacques Rousseau Great men never feel great; small men never feel small. -Chinese Proverb "Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave. - Wilson Mizner" It's not what your are, it's what you don't become that hurts. -Oscar Levant "It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls. -Gabriel Riqueti Mirabeau "You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have. - Zig Ziglar" "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars. - Les Brown" There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. -Ralph Waldo Emerson A long dispute means that both parties are wrong. -Voltaire You must have courage, whatever the test, however many times you fall, stand up just once more. -Unknown Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. -George S. Patton When the fabric of society has become frayed, it is the role of the university to develop weavers. -E. Gordan Gee Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all. -Ben Franklin An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. -Honore de Balzac Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. -John Dewey My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person: he believed in me. -Jim Valvano Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something. -Henry David Thoreau Be considerate; you may need help yourself some day. -William Feather If you do not develop the hunger & courage to pursue your goal, you will lose your nerve and you will give up on your dream. -Les Brown Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at? -Lord Byron If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it! -Jonathan Winters Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, are possible. -Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere. -Joyce A. Myers To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage. -W. Clement Stone Thought takes a man out of servitude into freedom. -Emerson Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this. -Homer Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle. -James Russell Lowell Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents. -Edward Hoagland There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do. - Henry Ford We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them. -William A. Ward Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying. -Harry Anderson Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable. -Madeleine Kunin Doing things for others always pays dividends... -Claude M. Bristol To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. -Elbert Hubbard "Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall." - Confucius Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. -Abraham Lincoln A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. -Walter Winchell Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you anyway. -Elbert Hubbard Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst. -Marcus Valerius Martial You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed. -John Irving Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. -Mahatma Gandhi There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows. -George Eliot How do we know but that the interruption we snarl at is the most blessed thing that has come to us in long days? -Anna R. Lindsay "Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. -Abraham Lincoln" You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals. -George S. Patton Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger. -David O. McKay The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. -Benjamin Franklin It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world. -William Cobbett There is something healthy and invigorating about direct action. -Henry Miller Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger. -Lou Holtz Man always has two reasons for the things he does; the logical one and the real one. -Unknown Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. -Forbes, Malcolm Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road. -Dag Hammarskjold Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought. -Heinrich Heine People will pay more to be entertained than educated. -Johnny Carson One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests. -John Stuart Mill Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong. -David Fasold Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act. -George W. Crane It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity. -Frederick Phillips The real voyage of discovery consists not in making new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust The smallest actual good is better than the most magnificent promises of impossibilities. -Thomas B. Macaulay Busy people are never busybodies. -Ethel Watts Mumford People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do. -Lewis Cass Thinking will not overcome fear but action will. -W. Clement Stone A life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books. -John Ruskin I never did a day's work in my life--it was all fun. -Thomas Edison All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date. -Unknown The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream. -Eleanor Roosevelt Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor for the best opportunities; they will never come. -Janet Erskine Stuart People are the custodians of the world's wealth; if you want them to hand some over to you, you have to be nice to people! -Wilde You had better be ready to change your mind when needed, or your mind will change you. -Henry B. Wilson Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars. -Henry Van Dyke We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot. -Tom Sharp All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ. -John Christian Bovee Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint. -Don Marquis I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. -Abraham Lincoln "Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye." -Helen Keller Exude happiness and you will feel it back a thousand times. -Joan Lunden In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life. -Joseph R. Sizoo Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong. -Leo Buscaglia After 5000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, What part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand? -R Brault Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. -Pamela Vaull Starr Afterthought is good, but forethought is better -Norwegian Proverb Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big? -Charles L. Allen It takes the hammer of persistence to drive the nail of success. -John Mason The fact is, the difference between peak performers & everybody else is much smaller than everybody else thinks. -Charles Garfield To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. -St. Teresa of Avila Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. -Bernard Berenson It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires. -Montesquieu Your ability to learn faster than your competition is your only sustainable competitive advantage. -Arie de Gues If you lean in the direction of success, you will make progress even when you fall. -Grant Bright All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. -William F. Halsey You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path. -Les Brown Discipline yourself and others won't need to. -John Wooden Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body & soul. -Buxton The things I've done in my life have required a lot of years of work before they took off. -Steve Jobs "To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. - Winston Churchill" You can't hit a target you cannot see and you cannot see a target you do not have. -Zig Ziglar A pretty sure method of losing friends is to strive to improve them. Do all your uplift work with your enemies. -Crane "The more you can dream, the more you can do. - Michael Korda" "Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better. -Thoreau" "Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit. - Christian Nevell Bovee" Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master. - Benjamin Franklin There are two days in the week on which I never worry. One is yesterday and the other is tomorrow. -Robert Burdette If we are ever to enjoy life, now is the time, not tomorrow or next year. Today should always be our most wonderful day. -Thomas Dreier Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore. -Sir Cecil Beaton Some people are benevolent; others are beneficent. The first are well-wishing; the second are well-doing. -Unknown Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition. -Arthur Rubinstein Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement. -Thomas Carruthers There's no traffic jam on the extra mile. -Unknown Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it. -James Allen A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline. -Harvey Mackay If you live in the past and allow the past to define who you are, then you never grow. -Oprah Winfrey Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. -W.T. Purkiser Successful people tend to become more successful because they are always thinking about their successes. -Brian Tracy He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. -Montaigne What is to give light must endure the burning. -Viktor Frankl There might be false starts and do-overs. You are entitled to experiment before you find your calling. -Jane Pauley I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose. -David Livingstone I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else. -Earl Weaver "Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. --Oscar Wilde" You never miss the water till the well runs dry. -English Proverb Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down. -Wilson Mizner To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail. Abraham Maslow If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure. -David Ambrose It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them. -Benjamin Franklin Everybody has their ups and downs so I decided to have mine between good and great. -Daniel Hoogtrerp Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes! -Bette Midler You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change. -Les Brown Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do. -Eric Hoffer If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss. -Kirk Kirkpatrick Oldie, but a goodie: "Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." -Winston Churchill A distracted existence leads us to no goal. -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe There is more to life than increasing its speed. -Mahatma Gandhi "To have more than you've got, become more than you are." -Jim Rohn The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work. -Elbert Hubbard (1859-1915) The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine destiny. -Frederick Speakman Aim for service and success will follow. -Albert Schweitzer "Do not delay; the golden moments fly!" -Longfellow "Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined. - Leo Rosten" If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded. -Thomas Carlyle There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit. -David Starr Jordan "God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with." -Henry Ward Beecher By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry. -Jack Dempsey Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money, power and influence. -Henry Chester Don't kill the dream...execute it! -Robert Schuller The only way of finding the limit of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. -Arthur C. Clark It takes 20 years to make an overnight success. -Eddie Cantor Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties. -Charles Haddon Spurgeon Enlightenment must come little by little, otherwise it would overwhelm. -Idries Shah If your words are soft and sweet, they won't be as hard to swallow if you have to eat them. -Unknown It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.- Sir Winston Churchill No man is lonely while eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention. -Christopher Morley If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster. -Stephen Covey Having a goal is a state of happiness. -F.J. Barrek The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed. -Lloyd Jones "We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough. - Helen Keller" There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction. -Salvador Dali I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience. -R. Buckminster Fuller The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything. -Oscar Wilde "The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. - Winston Churchill" We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten. -Cesare Pavese He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. -Friedrich Nietzsche "No great man ever complains of want of opportunity. - Ralph Waldo Emerson" If we are ever to enjoy life, now is the time, not tomorrow or next year. Today should always be our most wonderful day. -T Dreier Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action. -Emerson Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases. -Jeremy Collier I discovered a long time ago that if I helped people get what they wanted, I would always get what I wanted... -Anthony Robbins Optimism is essential to achievement and is also the foundation of courage and of true progress. -Nicholas Murray Butler The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. -Chinese Proverb An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason. -Publilius Syrus (85BC-43BC) "Some folk want their luck buttered. - Thomas Hardy" It is wise to direct your anger towards problems, not people; to focus your energies on answers, not excuses. -William A. Ward "Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent. - Euripides" If no one ever took risks, Michelangelo would have painted on the Sistine floor. -Neil Simon Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -T. S. Elliot I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down. -Allen H. Neuharth If there is no struggle, there is no progress. -Frederick Douglass "We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way. - Earl Nightingale" Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it. -Unknown We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring. -David Grayson "Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature. - Albert Einstein" Kindness is a hard thing to give away. It keeps coming back to the giver. -Ralph Scott For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be a hundred or if I get to be a trillionaire. -Beah Richards A poor life this if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare. -William Henry Davies You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become 2nd nature. -Les Brown If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting. -Dick Vermeil Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. -Jim Ryun "Don't wait. The time will never be just right." -Napoleon Hill What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better. -Wendell Phillips "Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into. - Wayne Dyer" Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do. -Sarah Caldwell "Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets." -Nido Qubein Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you. Most of all, other people can't stop you. Only you can stop you. -J Gitomer A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led. -Alexander Cannon "A goal is a dream with a deadline. - Napoleon Hill" "Laboring toward distant aims sets the mind in a higher key and puts us at our best." -Charles Parkhurst My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there. -Josh Billings Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment. -Benjamin Disraeli He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. -Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. -Henry David Thoreau One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat. -Napoleon Hill The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become. -Ben Herbster A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. -Chinese proverb Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win. -Bernadette Devlin "Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice." - Wayne Dyer If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. -Doug Larson To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. -Robert Pirsig Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them. -Henry Ford If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it. -W.C. Fields "If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. - Jim Rohn" Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. -Jim Rohn There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service. -Napoleon Hill "Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty. - Voltaire" I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. -Thoreau The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody. -F. Scott Fitzgerald Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose. -Benjamin Disraeli Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree: they bear no fruit. -Frances Marion Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don't count on it. Today is ready cash: Use it! -Edwin Bliss If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. -Isaac Singer """We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve."" - Maxwell Maltz" Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. -Napoleon Bonaparte ...the world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business. -Margaret Mitchell The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings. -Ralph Waldo Emerson There are acres of diamonds in the problem you have before you right now. - Brian Tracy To grow and know what one is growing towards -- that is the source of all strength and confidence in life. -James Baillie The best place to succeed is where you are with what you have. -Charles M. Schwab Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal. -Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) Storms make oaks take deeper root. -George Herbert "The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch. - Jim Rohn" This became a credo of mine: attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. -Bette Davis Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. -Dag Hammarskjold Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away. -Sophocles Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. -George Bernard Shaw Service to others is the rent you pay for living on this planet. -Marian Edelman The victory of success is half done when one gains the habit of work. -Sarah Knowles Bolton Be bold, and might forces will come to your aid. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The worst men often give the best advice. -Philip James Bailey Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. -Dr. Joyce Brothers A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it. -John Keats Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking. -Katharine Hepburn He who would move the world must first move himself. -Edward Ericson Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels. -Orison Swett Marden "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." -Oscar Wilde "We are always getting ready to live, but never living. - Ralph Waldo Emerson" Do one thing at a time and do that one thing as if your life depended upon it. -Eugene Grace Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears that we never use. -Charles Schulz "A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving." - Lao Tzu Great things are done more through courage than through wisdom. -German Proverb Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. -Albert Einstein "You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you. - Brian Tracy" Dream big and dare to fail. -Norman D. Vaughan The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use. -Washington Irving Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. -John Dewey Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them. -Francois de La Rochefoucauld There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons. -Denis Waitley As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. -Ben Hogan Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away. -Charles Colton Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason. -Emerson If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated? - Henry David Thoreau Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. -Pierre Teilhard De Chardin He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master. -Ben Johnson Self-inspection is the best cure for self-esteem. -Wordsworth A fault that humbles a man is of greater value than a virtue that puffs him up. -Unknown "Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right using of strength." -Henry Ward Beecher The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake.... -Nelson Boswell Knowledge if stored away and not put into use may corrode in time. -Eva Arrington They are able because they think they are able. -Virgil We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started. -Beecher Fear begins to melt away when you begin to take action on a goal you really want. -Robert G. Allen Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. George Patton Can it be that man is essentially a being who loves to conquer difficulties, a creature whose function is to solve problems? -G Munson Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past. -Tom Peters Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity. -Arnold Bennett Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last? -Vernon Howard Logic will not change an emotion, but action will. -Unknown Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened. -Orison Swett Marden You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing. -Rene McPherson He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful. -Lao-Tzu Somehow the people who do as they please seem to get along just about as well as those who are always trying to please others. -R. Edwards Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives. - Viktor Frankl Spectacular achievement is always preceded by spectacular preparation. -Robert H. Schuller A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake. -Confucius Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking. -Bernard M. Baruch Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them. -Unknown "If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that 9 will run into the ditch before they reach you. - Calvin Coolidge" I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly; if it be wrong, leave it undone. -Bernard Gilpin "For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" "Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good. - Benjamin Franklin" Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment. -Paul Cezanne The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. -Charles Du Bois A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes. -Fyodor Dostoevsky Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. -James Allen By stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence. -Michael Gelb Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best. -Marva Collins Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble. -George Washington Every one has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases. -Jeremy Collier "Anything that has been accomplished by any other human being in the physical realm is within the field of possibility. -W. Dyer" Well done is better than well said. -Benjamin Franklin A bore is a man who has nothing to say and says it anyway. -Unknown He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have. -Don Juan Manuel High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. -Jack Kinder "Familiarity breeds contempt. - Publilius Syrus" Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. -S Harris "Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither. - C. S. Lewis" What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might. -Marcus Cicero It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference. -Zig Ziglar All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord. -Earl Nightingale Just because you made a mistake doesn't mean you are a mistake. -Georgette Mosbacher Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought. -Albert Szent-Szent-Gyorgyi You will find the key to success under the alarm clock. -Benjamin Franklin If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd. -Edward de Bono Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. -Emily Dickinson Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. -Lou Holtz Being defeated is only a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent. -Marilyn Vos Savant No man is a success in business unless he loves his work. -Florence Scovel Shinn If you want to reach a goal, you must see yourself reaching it in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal. -Zig Ziglar More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives, that determine our destiny. -Tony Robbins Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. - Robert Brault I will prepare and some day my chance will come. -Abraham Lincoln It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses. -Dag Hammarskjold "It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. - John Wooden" To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. -Robert Louis Stevenson Death twitches my ear. "Live," he says; "I am coming." -Virgil If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability. -Marcus Cicero Patience is a bitter plant, but its fruit is sweet. -Chinese Proverb "Goals are dreams with deadlines." -Diana Schart Hunt The more goals you set, the more goals you get. -Mark Victor Hansen When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it. -Jim Rohn If you take no risks, you'll never be hurt, but you won't really live, either. -Dr. James Shiovitz Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed. -Abraham Lincoln The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. -Jim Rohn I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed. -Michael Jordan Nobody can go back and start a new beginning but anyone can start today and make a new ending. -Maria Robinson "Character is much easier kept than recovered." -Thomas Paine The only way to excellence is to consistently improve yourself every single day. -Thomas J. Vilord Enthusiasm is nothing more or less than faith in action. -Henry Chester When you've exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven't! -Robert Schuller "I quote others in order to better express myself. - Michel de Montaigne" The future is simply infinite possibility waiting to happen. What it waits on is human imagination to crystallize its possibility. -Kaiser Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. -John Q Adams If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. -Unknown If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead. -Justin Sims You are more likely to act yourself into feelings, than feel yourself into action. -Dr. Jerome Brunner "When you have the enthusiasm and the passion, you end up figuring how to excel. -Deena Kastor" It doesn't hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later. -Lucimar Santos de Lima It is well for one to know more than he says. -Plautus Worry is like a rocking chair: it keeps you moving but doesn't get you anywhere. -Corrie Ten Boom "He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law. - Henry Ford" Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation. -Honore De Balzac The person who doesn't know something can't be done will often find a way to go ahead and do it. -Charles Kettering If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you. -Les Brown Character is higher than intellect. A great soul must be fit to live as well as to think. -Ralph Waldo Emerson A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential? -Jane Wagner Let everyone sweep in front of his own door and the whole world will be clean. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish. - Tony Robbins" Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows. -Unknown "A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness. - Eric Hoffer" We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve. -Ruth Ross People are not going to love you unless you love them. -Pat Carroll "The most wasted of all days is that during which one has not laughed." -Nicolas Chamfort "Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly." - Mae West If we get everything that we want, we will soon want nothing that we get. -Vernon Luchies We must treasure the achievers of our land because it's they who raise the sights of all the others. -Unknown Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others. -William Hazlitt Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things. -Mengzi Meng-tse (c.370-300BC) To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life. -Sir William Osler Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. -Judy Garland Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe. -Oprah Winfrey Lower your voice and strengthen your argument. -Lebanese Proverb "Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things." - Peter Drucker All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. -Edward Gibbon Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. -Sloan Wilson A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. -Walter Gagehot We never know how high we are till we are called to rise; and then, if we are true to plan, our stature's touch the skies. -Dickinson It is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight--it's the size of the fight in the dog. -Dwight D. Eisenhower Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. -Francis Bacon We cannot lead a choiceless life. Every day, every moment, every second, there is a choice. -Ernest Holmes It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life. -Longfellow "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." -Henry Adams A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. -Samuel Johnson People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the #1 thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done.-G. Allen We French found it and called it joie de vivre -- the joy of living. -Renee Repound "Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." -Abraham Lincoln "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." - Samuel Johnson The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle. -Georg C. Lichtenberg There is scope for inventiveness everywhere if only we have the vision to perceive it. The breakers-away are the creators. -West Do not always prove yourself to be the one in the right. The right will appear. You need only give it a chance. -Charles Fowler Everyone has 3 characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have. -Alphonse Karr If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else. -Joseph Campbell What you become is far more important than what you get. What you get will be influenced by what you become. -Jim Rohn The minute you alter your perception of yourself and your future, both you and your future begin to change. -Zdenek It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. -Mark Twain I am told to just be myself, but as much as I have practiced the impression, I am still no good at it. -Robert Brault The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. -Theodore Roosevelt To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for. -Alexander Smith "What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?" -George Eliot Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. -Dickens "Nothing arouses ambition so much as the trumpet clang of another's fame." -Baltasar Gracian Don't wait for someone to take you under their wing. Find a good wing and climb up underneath it. -Frank Bucaro "Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed. -Abraham Lincoln" Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience. -Eric Butterworth It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste. -Henry Ford "To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence." -Arthur Schopenhauer "Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction. - Anne Frank" "Why are we so blind? That which we improve, we have; that which we hoard is not for ourselves." -Dorothee DeLuzy Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned. -Charles W. Chesnutt Men are born with two eyes and one tongue in order that they may see twice as much as they say. -Burmese proverb "A man without a smiling face must not open a shop." -Chinese proverb The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard. -Helen Brown People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. -Walter Savage Landor "Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours - Richard Bach" Each day can be one of triumph if you keep up your interests. -George Adams "God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow into them." -Unknown Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. -Charles Buxton A clever person turns great troubles into little ones, and little ones into none at all. -Chinese Proverb Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times. -Napoleon Hill If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward. -Geoffrey Hickson "Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved. - Ralph Waldo Emerson" Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be. -Anne Byrhhe "For everything you have missed, you have gained something else." -Emerson If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles. -Benjamin Franklin Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl. -Nellie McClung The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you. -Will Rogers If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress. -David Rockefeller Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours. -O.S. Marden If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere. -Ziglar Whoever looks for easy work goes to bed very tired. -Yiddish Proverb Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be. -Joy Page Never stop. One always stops as soon as something is about to happen. -Peter Brook When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. -Confucius I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning. -Jonathan Swift We must leave our mark on our life while we have it in our power. -Isak Dinesen "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." -Francis Bacon We acquire the strength we have overcome. -Ralph Waldo Emerson The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds. -Lloyd Jones He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities. - Benjamin Franklin" Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. -Christopher Morley Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. -Henry Ward Beecher Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. -H Keller Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility it becomes rashness or obstinacy. -J. Swartz "If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place." - Cicero To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. -Confucius If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average. -M. H. Alderson - A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last. -Joseph Fort Newton I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely. -Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams. -Les Brown You don't just stumble into the future. You create your own future. -Roger Smith Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable. -Og Mandino "Those who forget the past will tend to repeat it, with all its attendant sorrows." -Dr William F. Adams We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life. -JFClarke We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them. -Elbert Hubbard A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience. -Elbert Hubbard Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. -William Saroyan Many of our fears are tissue paper thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. -Brendan Francis Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost. -Helen Keller "Life has no limitations, except the ones you make. - Les Brown" Laboring toward distant aims sets the mind in a higher key, and puts us at our best. -Charles H. Parkhurst "Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven." -H.W. Beecher "Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book. - Jim Rohn" More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth. -Napoleon Hill What makes life dreary is the want of a motive. -George Eliot Amateurs wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work. -Chuck Close Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today. -Matthew Arnold One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. -Og Mandino Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations. -Cavett Robert He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying. -Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present. -Robert Conklin What you do when you don't have to, determines what you will be when you can no longer help it. -Rudyard Kipling "If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves" - Thomas A. Edison "Words are nothing but words; power lies in deeds. Be a person of action." -Konyate If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once. -Sir Walter Scott "Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it." - Napoleon Hill It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. -Napoleon Hill It should not discourage us if our kindness is unacknowledged; it has its influence still. -Unknown To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. -George MacDonald We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life. -JF Clarke Who would not rather flounder in the fight than not have known the glory of the fray? -Richard Hovey One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity. -Albert Schweitzer Lack of will power has caused more failures than lack of intelligence or ability. -Flower A. Newhouse The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress. -Philip Roth Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in. -Meyer An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. -Richard Bach There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way. -Christopher Morley It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well. -Joseph Ross "For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing. -Thomas Carlyle" Winners take chances. Like everyone else, they fear failing, but they refuse to let fear control them. -Nancy Simms "What I aspired to be, and was not, comforts me." -Robert Browning Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself. -Horace If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed. -David Viscott Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. -Isaac Asimov There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear. -John Wainwright Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. -William James A man may fall many times, but he won't be a failure until he says someone pushed him. -Elmer G. Letterman The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. -Aristotle Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment. -Tony Robbins One minute of patience can result in ten years of peace. -Italian Proverb I would rather make my name than inherit it. -William Makepeace Thackeray If you have goals & procrastination you have nothing. If you have goals & you take action, you will have anything you want. -T Vilord They fail, and they alone, who have not striven. -Thomas Bailey Aldrich Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves. -Benjamin Disraeli You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. -Thomas Wolfe A room without books is like a body without a soul. -Cicero "The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion 20 years later." -Ralph Waldo Emerson If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've obviously never been in bed with a mosquito. -Michelle Walker Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. -Napoleon Bonaparte The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat. -Lily Tomlin If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. -Anatole France You are capable of much more than you are presently thinking, imagining, doing or being. -Myles Munroe "I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist. - Max Lerner" Life does not happen to us, it happens from us. -Michael Wickett Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth. -W Blake You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Actually, I'm an overnight success. But it took twenty years. -Monty Hall You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. -Kahlil Gibran When every physical & mental resource is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously. -Norman Vincent Peale I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night. -Henry Ford The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach. -Benjamin Mays When you rely too much on reason, you end up not relying enough on feeling. -French Proverb "The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone. - Lucretius" It is the bold man who every time does best, at home or abroad. -Homer It is well to think well. It is divine to act well. -Horace Mann Everyone's future is, in reality, uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes. -Lord Dunsany He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself. -Seneca Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. -Harry Emerson Fosdick If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground. -Ralph Waldo Emerson I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative. -James Baldwin The thing that destroys a person is not the knowing but the knowing and not doing. -Carolyn M. Rodgers The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure. -Chinese Proverb A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing. -Shaw The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly. -Corra May Harris "If you want to leave your footprints on the sands of time, be sure you're wearing work shoes." - Anonymous We always weaken whatever we exaggerate. -Jean-Francois De La Harpe Never miss a good chance to shut up. -Will Rogers The only way to reach your long range goals is through achieving your short range objectives. -Unknown If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. -Marcus Aurelius There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal! -Maggie Kuhn "If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember this whole thing was started by a mouse. - Walt Disney" When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will. -William James Always have your hook baited; in the pool you least think, there will be a fish. -Ovid "If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? - Sydney Harris" If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it. - Epictetus "The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. - Chuck Swindoll" He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor. -Menander of Athens The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles. -Bernard Baruch Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee. -Proverbs Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. -Benjamin Franklin "Nothing is impossible to the man who can will, and then do; this is the only law of success." -Mirabeau Continuous challenge produces continuous improvement. -Paul B. Thornton "Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time. -Norman Cousins" Yielding is sometimes the best way of succeeding. -Italian Proverb Whatever your position, if you know how & when to speak, and when to remain silent, your chances of success are proportionately increased. -Smedley I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. -Thomas Edison Everything is okay in the end; if it's not ok, then it's not the end. -Unknown "Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest." -Mark Twain Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. -Ralph Waldo Emerson As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation. -Hans Selye You can never dream too big, but you can think too little. -Unknown We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves. -Thomas Merton A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world. -Joseph Addison A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it'll annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. -Herm Albright There are risks & costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks & costs of comfortable inaction. -JFK You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. -Zig Ziglar All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual. -Albert Einstein The average person living to age 70 has 613,000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun. -Unknown Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first. -Frederick Wilcox Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius. -An Wang "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. -Ann Landers" We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. -Joan Didion Better is not something you wish, it is something you become. -Jim Rohn "Be kind; everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." -Unknown There are only about a half dozen things that make 80% of the difference in any area of our lives. -Jim Rohn The Possible's slow fuse is lit by the imagination. -Emily Dickinson It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character. -Arthur Schopenhauer "If we do not change our daily lives, we cannot change the world." -Thich Nhat Hanh The best portion of a good man's life is in his little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. -William Wordsworth I would rather earn 1% off 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts. -John D. Rockefeller If you rest, you rust. -Helen Hayes The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going. -David Starr Jordan If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you. -T.S. Eliot If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. -M. Thatcher If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true? -Oscar Hammerstein Unless we remember, we cannot understand. -Edward M. Forster Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it. -Unknown The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else. -Andrew Jensen "Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that lies in other men, sleeping, but never dead, will rise in majesty to meet thine own. -Lowell" "The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. - W. Somerset Maugham" Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them. -Bovee And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Anais Nin Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others. - Wayne Dyer An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit. -American Proverb Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength. -Chinese Proverb Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward. -Patricia Sampson "I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. - Albert Einstein" Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. -Orison Swett Marden You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be. -David Thomas It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously. -J.C. Macaulay Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. -Auguste Rodin If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average. -M.H. Alderson Whatever you do, don't do it halfway. -Bob Beamon Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available. -Parkinson's Law It is beautiful to do nothing and then rest afterwards. -Spanish Proverb By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before. -Edwin Elliot On many of the great issues of our time, men have lacked wisdom because they have lacked courage. -William Benton The secret of the law of abundance is this: In order to receive and appreciate the good things of life, you must first give. -N.V. Peale Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. -Victor Hugo Our limitations & success will be based on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon. -Waitley Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits. -C Givens If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes. -St. Clement of Alexandra Joy are our wings; sorrows our spurs. -Richter "The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper. - Friedrich Nietzsche" I will not meddle with that which I cannot mend. -Thomas Fuller Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. -Arthur Ashe "If you are speaking the truth you don't have to remember anything. - Mark Twain" The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things. -Jean De La Bruyere "Patience and fortitude conquer all things." -Emerson "Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity?" - Unknown The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas, into enthusiasm, into actions. -Thomas Vilord When you meet a man, you judge him by his clothes; when you leave, you judge him by his heart. -Russian Proverb A determined person doesn't find it hard to succeed; they find it hard to stop trying. -Allen Steble Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced. -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe You always have to give 100%, because if you don't, someone, someplace, will give 100% & will beat you when you meet. -Ed Macauley I have tried 99 times and have failed, but on the 100th time came success. -Albert Einstein Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows. -Helen Nielsen Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. -Dr Seuss To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living. -William Hazlitt As lousy as things are now, tomorrow they will be somebody's good old days. -Gerald Barzan Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. -Napoleon Hill Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. -Lord Chesterfield What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise. -Kitty O'neill Collins "Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating. - Denis Waitl" I just wake up and say, "You're a bum, go do something worthwhile today." -Garth Brooks The best vitamin for making friends, B-1. -Unknown "Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. - Andrew Jackson" He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life. -Unknown You have not done enough, you have never done enough, so long as it is still possible that you have something to contribute. -Hammarskjold "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. -Laura Wilder There never has been, and cannot be, a good life without self-control. -Leo Tolstoy For success, attitude is equally as important as ability. -Harry F. Banks In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm; in the real world, all rests on perseverance. -Goethe Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars. -Henry van Dyke Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon. -Carl Rowan If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you. If you really make them think, they'll hate you. -Don Marquis If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. -Chinese Proverb Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over. -F. Scott Fitzgerald If you have something to do that is worthwhile doing, don't talk about it... do it. -George W. Biount When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. -Henry Ford Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. -Lord Byron "Success consists of a series of little daily victories". -Laddie F. Hutar Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true. -L.J. Cardinal Suenens Success: We try and try and try and try and try and then we get it right. -Walt Disney "The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it. - Voltaire" A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. -Kahlil Gibran "Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing." -Harriet Braiker Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect. -Leonardo Da Vinci You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong. -Warren Buffett "Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying? - John Berger" You may delay, but time will not. -Benjamin Franklin Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity. -Richard L. Evans It is not enough to take steps which may some day lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step. -Goethe We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it. -Abraham Lincoln It is never too late to be who you might have been. -George Elliot You will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. -Helen Keller All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune. -Henry David Thoreau Victory belongs to the most persevering.-Napoleon Bonaparte "I'm looking forward to looking back on all this." -Sandra Knell "Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly." -Langston Huges Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor. -H. Jackson Brown Jr. It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men. -Jean De La Bruyere You will have many opportunities in life to keep your mouth shut: You should take advantage of every one of them. -Thomas Edison We should keep so close to facts that we never have to remember the second time what we said the first time. -Marion F. Smith Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything. -Walt Whitman "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." - Benjamin Franklin It is only by doing things others have not that one can advance. -George Patton All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. -Samuel Butler There is no education like adversity. -Benjamin Disraeli Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success. -Alonzo Newton Benn If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade. -Thomas J. Peters It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead. -William Markiewicz "You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate." -Seneca One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going. -Goethe Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. -Aldous Huxley "When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something. - Robert Browning" Repentance is another name for aspiration. -Henry Ward Beecher There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self. -William James What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. -Ralph Waldo Emerson "That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well. -Abraham Lincoln" Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid. -Earl Nightingale You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem. -Robert H. Schuller It is fair to judge people and stained-glass windows only in their best light. -William A. Ward Oversleeping will never make one's dreams come true. -Unknown "Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal." -Pamela Vaull Starr If you hear a voice within you saying, You are not a painter, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. -Vincent van Gogh The thing that stands between a man & what he wants from life is the will to try it & the faith to believe it's possible. -R. DeVos Always take a job that is too big for you. -Harry Emerson Fosdick "The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful." -Alfred Adler We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do. -Dale Carnegie We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. -Henry David Thoreau Do you agree with this? "Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it." -German Proverb "Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles." -Bob Richards Let every man practice the art that he knows best. -Cicero It is the man's dreams and his inspiring attempt to make them come true that remain important. -Francis Ford Coppola Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to reestablish our character. -La Rochefoucauld As long as one keeps searching, the answers come. -Joan Baez It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked. -Unknown One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks. -Jack Penn The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. -Mark Twain If you want to kill time, why not try working it to death? -Sam Levenson The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense. -Arnold Bennett Triumphs without difficulties are empty. Indeed, it is difficulties that make the triumph. It is no feat to travel the smooth road. -anon. "The 11th Commandment: Mind your own business." -unknown Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them. -Fay Weldon "Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands. - Zig Ziglar" Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit. -Harriet Martineau "Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?" -Martin Luther King, Jr. Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. -Ambrose Bierce Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends. -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Being positive or negative are habits of thoughts that have a very strong influence on life. -Remez Sasson Man must strive, and in striving, he must err. -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it. -C.C. Scott You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. -Jack London "Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries. - Ralph Waldo Emerson" If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything. -Mary Hemingway "Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe." -Orison S. Marden Most barriers to your success are man-made. And most often, you're the man who made them. -Frank Tyger The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty year of his life. -Muhammad Ali Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. -Aldous Huxley The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. -Roger Bannister Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory. -William Wordsworth Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. -WJ Bryan Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them. -WC Stone Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my goals, is all mine. -Wayne Dyer "Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly." -Jeff Davidson When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky. -Dr. Armand Hammer In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time. -Anthony J. D'Angelo Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears. -Rudyard Kipling Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. -Jean Paul Richter Success means having the courage, the determination, & the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be. -G. Sheehan Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday. -John Wayne Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. -Unknown Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do. -Elizabeth Smith There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day. -Alexander Woollcott Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything. -Billy Graham In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers. -Rollo May Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind. -Louis Pasteur We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies; it is the first law of nature. -Voltaire A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one. -Benjamin Franklin "Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. - Benjamin Franklin" A sobering thought: what if, right at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential? -Jane Wagner Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one. -Unknown "One man with courage makes a majority." -Andrew Jackson Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified. -Wilfred A. Peterson Failure can be bought on easy terms; success must be paid for in advance. -Cullen Hightower Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. -Carl Edward Sagan "One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better." -Col. Sanders "If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade. - Thomas J. Peters" "When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die. - Eleanor Roosevelt" "Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have. - Thomas Edison" You can often measure a person by the size of his dream. -Robert H. Schuller Men, for the sake of getting a living forget to live. -Margaret Witter Fuller "What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? - Vincent van Gogh" "Thinking a smile all the time will keep your face youthful." -Frank Geletl Burgess Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual & regular top ups. -Peter Davies Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years. -Bob Brown People who never get carried away should be. -Malcolm S. Forbes "In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it. - Norman Vincent Peale" People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable. -Oliver Goldsmith The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it. -Plutarch One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again. -Henry Ford Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do. -Albert Gray Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future. -Marilyn Ferguson We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way. -Earl Nightingale Every time you acquire a new interest, even more, a new accomplishment, you increase your power of life. -William Lyon Phelps If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves. -Lane Kirkland Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability. -Roy L. Smith Failure is the tuition you pay for success. -Walter Brunell A good conscience is a continual feast. -Francis Bacon Some men dream of worthy accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them. -Unknown 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. He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, & will never B wiser on the morrow than he is today. -Edwards I have never been hurt by what I have not said. -Calvin Coolidge The opportunity that God sends does not wake up him who is asleep. -Sengalese proverb It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. -Napoleon Hill Don't tell your problems to people: 80% don't care; and the other 20% are glad you have them. -Lou Holtz The best things in life must come by effort from within, not by gifts from the outside. -Fred Corson Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it. -Tom Lehrer Shun idleness as the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals. -Voltaire The secret of living is to find people who will pay you money to do what you would pay to do if you had the money. -S Caldwell True friends stab you in the front. - Oscar Wilde If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work. -Sir Isaac Newton "If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all. -Michelangelo" Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day. -Jim Rohn "A stumble may prevent a fall." -Thomas Fuller Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they do not quit. -Conrad Hilton A quarrel is like an itch; the more you scratch, the more it itches. -Yiddish Proverb You must remain focused on your journey to greatness. -Les Brown My reputation grows with every failure. -George Bernard Shaw You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. -Jack London Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. -Robert Frost Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other. -Charles Lamb He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. -Muhammad Ali People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. -Lombardi "If I feel depressed, I go to work. Work is always an antidote to depression." -Eleanor Roosevelt Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right. -Marian Wright Edelman Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. -Ambrose Redmoon Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose. -John Stossel If you set goals & go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you. -Les Brown Pick battles big enough to matter, but small enough to win. -Jonathan Kozol Life is like photography: use the negatives to develop positives. -Unknown I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job. -Frederick Ecker Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise it would be called sure-thing taking. -Tim McMahon To grow and know what one is growing towards--that is the source of all strength & confidence in life. -James Baillie Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine. -William Feather You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions. -Denis Waitley Nurture your mind with great thoughts for you will never go higher than you think. -Disraeli There is no such thing as failure. There are only results. -Anthony Robbins Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. -Jose Ortega y Gasset It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again. -C Kettering Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you. -Denis Waitley Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. -William James Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough. -T.S. Eliot It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are. -Roy Disney Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing. -Frederick Robertson I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. -Rockefeller No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. -Agnes De Mille It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge. -Arnold H. Glasgow "All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why. - James Thurber" """A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer."" - Ralph Waldo Emerson" If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away. -John Steinbeck "It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. - Theodore Roosevelt" When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees. -Kenneth Kaunda, The man who is incapable of making a mistake is incapable of anything. -Abraham Lincoln Failure is the foundation of success, and the means by which it is achieved. -Lao-Tzu "Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on your way down. -John Dryden" "No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess." -Isaac Newton A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished. -The Talmud "Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits." -Mark Twain "If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. - Horace Mann" Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well. -Jack London It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths. -Thomas Carlyle Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other. -Ralph Waldo Emerson "Go for it now. The future is promised to no one. - Wayne Dyer" "Patience and time do more than strength or passion." -La Fontaine Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. -Dale Carnegie The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. -Goethe It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor, but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity. -Russell Lynes The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. -Muhammad Ali (RT'd myself) Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience. -George Washington I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure. - Unknown "To acheive happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal. -Earl Nightingale" From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you. -Samuel Goldwyn The height of your accomplishment will equal the depth of your convictions. -William Scolavino Sometimes you have to be silent in order to be heard. It's easier to criticize than to do better. -Swiss Proverb The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic. -Oscar Wilde The important thing is to dare to dream big, then take action to make it come true. -Joe Girard When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you. -Lao-Tzu Always forgive your enemies -- nothing annoys them so much. -Oscar Wilde Happiness is activity. -Aristotle He who throws dirt always loses ground. -Unknown """One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness."" - Josh Billings" I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression. -Margaret Fuller To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer. -Keith Degreen Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia. -Dr. Alexis Carrel "People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do. - E. W. Howe" When I open my eyes in the morning, I am not confronted by a world, but by a million possible worlds. -Colin Wilson If you're bored with life--you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things--you don't have enough goals. -Lou Holtz "To be good is noble. To tell people how to be good is even nobler and much less trouble." -Mark Twain One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it. -French Proverb "It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny." - Tony Robbins If you only do what you know you can do, you never do very much. -Tom Krause You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures. -Charles C. Noble Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. -Scott Adams Quote Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats. -A. Branson Alcott The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places. -unknown This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself? -Marden To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction. -Minna Antrim What is harder than rock or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Perseverance! -Ovid Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man. -Benjamin Franklin The possibilities are unlimited as long as you are true to your life's purpose. Marcia Wieder Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing. -Abraham Lincoln If you are willing to discipline yourself, the physical universe won't need to discipline you. -Leonard Orr Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. -Ralph Waldo Emerson No matter what the level of your ability, you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime. -James T. Mccay Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal. -Don Shula Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. -Mark Twain The virtue of all achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat. -A.J. Cronin The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. -Gandhi The obscure we see eventually, the completely apparent takes longer. -Edward R. Murrow Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. -Henry Miller No age, time of life, position or circumstance has a monopoly on success. Any age is the right age to start doing! -R Gerard Oh man! There is no planet sun or star could hold you, if you but knew what you are. -Ralph Waldo Emerson The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. -William James The whole life is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose. -Plutarch We can do no great things--only small things with great love. -Mother Teresa Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit. -Vince Lombardi Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. -E. Roosevelt Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping. -Jonathan Swift Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do. -Robert K. Mueller I really want to leave the world better than I found it. -Sebastian S. Kresge An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things. -Bryant H. McGill To lose patience is to lose the battle. -Mahatma Gandhi We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes. -John F. Kennedy The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it. -W. Somerset Maugham The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it & the blockhead sets themselves against it. -Baudrillard Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. -Dale Carnegie I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. -Mark Twain Life isn't about finding yourself. Life's about creating yourself. -George Bernard Shaw Seize the day. -Horace There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge. -Napoleon Hill The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old. -William James A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. -Mansell No man ever listened himself out of a job. -Calvin Coolidge Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. -Washington Irving To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan...believe...act! -Alfred Montapert "Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. - Jim Rohn" "A short saying often contains much wisdom."- Sophocles "Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices. - Buckminster Fuller" Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits. -Fulton Sheen "What great things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail. - Robert H. Schuller" Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want. -Bernard M. Baruch A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction. -Benjamin Spock For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act? -Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) Your life is your message to the world. Make it inspiring. -Lorrin L. Lee No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. -A. Townsend If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. -Thomas Fuller It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself. -Barbara Sher Action makes more fortune than caution. -Luc De Clapiers Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. -Horace Mann We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us. -Christian Nevell Bovee If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. -Abraham Maslow If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it. -John D. Rockefeller Do the thing and you will have the power. -Ralph Waldo Emerson We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures. -James E. Burke Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast. -William Shakespeare We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. -Martin Luther King, Jr. There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them. -Clare Boothe Luce The man that makes a character, makes foes. -Edward Young We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not. -La Rochefoucauld All big things in this world are done by people who are naive and have an idea that is obviously impossible. -Charles Hamilton Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them. -Charles Caleb Colton "There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate. - Robert Frost" Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction. -Al Bernstein The fastest way to pass your own expectations is to add passion to your labor. -Mike Litman Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. -Plato Desire is the starting point of all achievement. Not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. -N Hill Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet. -Robert Schuller Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -T. S. Eliot Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it. -Unknown A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.- Benjamin Disraeli "If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. -Louis D. Brandeis" If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today. -Lou Holtz Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly. -Stephen Covey Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise. -Cato The Elder It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. -Mark Twain Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have. -Peale Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen. -Lee Iacocca What great things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? -Robert Schuller All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato. -George Santayana It is better to be hated forwhat you are than to be loved for something you are not. -Andre Gide The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. -Paul Valery Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid. -Mark Twain I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain. -Rita Brown A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words. -Phillips Brooks When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness. -Malcolm Forbes I just want to leave the world a little better than I found it, and that's my goal in life. -Armand Hammer "It is later than you think." -sundial inscription Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. -David J. Schwartz A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. -John Barrymore "Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody." -Helen Brown "As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it! - Robert Collier" "It is more useful to be aware of a single weakness in oneself than to be aware of a thousand weaknesses in someone else." -Dalai Lama If you cannot lift the load off another's back, do not walk away. Try to lighten it. -Frank Tyger When the impossibility has been eliminated, whatever remains, no matter how improbable... is possible. -Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings. -Ralph Blum Positiveness is an absurd foible. If youare in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat. -L Sterne Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He does not want to sign His name. -Anatole France "What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. - Thomas Paine" I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning. -Jonathan Swift He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. -Chinese Proverb If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. -Frank A. Clark In order to be a true man or a true woman one needs to be committed, totally dedicated, to something bigger than oneself. -Unknown It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to. -Walter Linn The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage. -Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Success is falling nine times and getting up ten. -Jon Bon Jovi Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance. -Rochefoucauld "Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste! - Les Brown" Adversity introduces a man to himself. -unknown Never waste a minute of your precious life by squandering it thinking about people you don't like. -Unknown "What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right. - Ralph Waldo Emerson" Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch. -Ivern Ball To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You may be whatever you resolve to be. Determine to be something in the world, and you will be something. -J. Hawes If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do. -Lucille Ball The dog that trots about finds a bone. -Proverb Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got. -Andrew Young The difference between a smart man and a wise man: a smart man knows what to say, a wise man knows whether or not to say it. -Garafola May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. -Richard L. Evans Don't worry about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and determination. -Sir Thomas Treves If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work. -Thomas Watson "Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become" - Jim Rohn Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things. -Napoleon Hill He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. -Emerson "Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning can never be regained." -Stendhal "The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply. - Denis Waitley" "The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. -- Walter Bagehot" The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. -Robert Frost Better to bend than to break. -Scottish Proverb Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving. -Florence Scovel Shinn """Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success."" - Michael Flatley" Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. -Erica Jong Tough times never last, but tough people do. -Robert H. Schuller Courage is what you earn when you've been through the tough times and you discover they aren't so tough after all. -Malcolm Gladwell We have two lives - the one we learn with and the life we live after that. -Bernard Malamud "Each trial in life can be the catalyst to our potential." -Geri Walton Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. -Albert Einstein "What makes life dreary is the want of a motive. - George Eliot" Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity. -Sir Matthew Hale You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can. -Jimmy Carter No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him. -Napoleon Hill The soul that has no established aim loses itself. -Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come. -W.I.E. Gates Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. -Samuel Smiles We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true. -Denis Waitley You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life. -James Bilkey The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you. -Malcolm. W. Little People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy. -Oliver Goldsmith Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them! -Arthur Schopenhauer Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration. -Napoleon Bonaparte One may go a long way after one is tired. -French Proverb "Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent." - Napoleon Hill Most things are praised or condemned only because it is fashionable to praise or condemn them. -Rochefoucauld To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to. -Gibran "Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally." - David Frost (via eQuotes) Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. -John Updike "The secret of success is consistency of purpose. - Benjamin Disraeli" Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. -Joseph Campbell We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring.-David Grayson I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. -Michael Jordan Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. -Martin Luther (1483-1546) "Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action." -Benjamin Disraeli The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. -George Bernard Shaw Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things. -Napoleon Hill Change before you have to. -Jack Welch I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone. -Blaise Pascal """Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."" - Harold Wilson" "Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. - Calvin Coolidge" There is nothing to be gained by waiting for a better situation. You see where you are and you do what you can with that. -Jacob Javits If you have something to do that is worthwhile doing, don't talk about it... do it. -George W. Biount It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't. -Martin Van Buren (1782-1862) The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done. -Georg Lichtenberg "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." -Thomas Edison All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy. -Scott Alexander To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. -Robert Louis Stevenson Great things often come from small beginnings. -Finnish Proverb If at first you don't succeed-try, try again. Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as timed-release success. -Robert Orben Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies. -Somers White Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. -Christopher Morley The greatest thing this generation can do is to lay a few stepping stones for the next generation. -Charles Kettering You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure. -Zig Ziglar Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. -Jose Ortega Y Gasset Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future. -Robert Schuller It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. -Roosevelt "The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act. - Barbara Sher" Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. -Franklin D. Roosevelt "The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions." -Dwight D. Eisenhower The truly educated never graduate. -unknown People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals -- that is, goals that do not inspire them. -Tony Robbins Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful. -William A. Ward "It's better to have sloppy success than perfect mediocrity." -unknown A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder. -Eileen Caddy The world belongs to the energetic. -Ralph Waldo Emerson A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last. -Joseph F. Newton You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. -James Allen It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people. -Miles Franklin (!!) People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home. -Dagobert Runes Do more than you're supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want. -Bill Sands "Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience. - Brian Tracy" If a person has built a sound character, it makes but little difference what people say about him, because he will win in the end. -N Hill You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine. -Flip Wilson How prudently most men sink into nameless graves, while now & then a few forget themselves into immortality. -William Bryan When you expect things to happen -- strangely enough -- they do happen. -J.P. Morgan "The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action." -Philip Sydney (read that every day for 100 days) A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason. -Thomas Carlyle Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil. -Claude Helvetius If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average. -M.H. Alderson Sweat plus sacrifice equals success. -Charlie Finley The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose. -Martin J. Kohe Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones. -Tim McCarver Want to release your potential? Help others release theirs. -Pat Lynch History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. - Winston Churchill The most important thing to remember is this: to be ready at any moment to give up what you are for what you might become. -W.E.B. Du Bois If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself. -Ferdinand Porsche The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. -Benjamin Disraeli We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do. -Ethel Barrett Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. -Goethe They fail, and they alone, who have not striven. -Thomas Aldrich True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents. -John W. Gardner Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. -Franklin P. Jones There is no robber worse than a bad book. -Italian Proverb Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit. - Napoleon Hill Goals are not only absolutely necesary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive. -Robert H. Schuller Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. -Marilyn Vos Savant Perseverance is not a long race; it is many races one after another. -Walter Elliot A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind. -John Neal You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. -Zig Ziglar Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world. -Goethe The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. -Abraham Lincoln "Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don't go through life creaking. -H.W. Byles" People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. -George E. Allen Don't find fault. Find a remedy. -Henry Ford Through perseverance, many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. -Benjamin Disraeli Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus -- its simply learning how to focus. -Jack Canfield When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers. -Oscar Wilde Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim. -Ralph Waldo Emerson The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. -Harry Golden Human successes, like human failures, are composed of one action at a time and achieved by one person at a time. -Patty Sampson If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been. -Robert H. Schuller "Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice." -George Jackson Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness. -Thomas H. Huxley "Success is not permanent. The same is also true of failure." Dell Crossword Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. -George Washington Carver The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. -Edward Phelps "What you are is what you have been. What you'll be is what you do now" -Buddha Do not let the future be held hostage by the past. -Neal A. Maxwell We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. -Denis Diderot Yesterday is ashes; tomorrow wood. Only today does the fire burn brightly. -Inuit proverb You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning. -Billy Wilder Things may come to those who wait, but only things left by those who hustle. -Abraham Lincoln  Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction. -Al Bernstein Work will win when wishy washy wishing won't. -Thomas S. Monson Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months. -Anthony J. D'Angelo Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success. -Erwin W. Lutzer "Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them. - Les Brown" Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please. -Pythagoras Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning. -John Henry Newman You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own. -Clarence Day Great people are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. -Emerson "A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone. - Emily Brontë" Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness. -Publilius Syrus You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. -Oliver Goldsmith Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction. -Charles J. Givens We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life. -Plato The only real failure is the one from which we learn nothing. -John Powell Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last. -Hamilton Holt The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. -Arthur Clarke The people who talk the best are not the only ones who can tell you the most interesting things. -Chinese Proverb Self-respect is the root of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. -Abraham Heschel When you are as great as I am it is hard to be humble. -Muhammad Ali Courage is a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it. -William T. Sherman "Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. - Helen Keller" "To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. - Teresa of Ávila" "Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. - Theodore Roosevelt" Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. -Charles Kuralt It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us. -Isaac Disraeli You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing. -Meryl Streep The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become. -Nathaniel Hawthorne A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. -Rudyard Kipling We don't laugh because we're happy -- we're happy because we laugh. -William James There is no luck except where there is discipline. -Irish Proverb "Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been. - Josh Billings" If A is a success in life, then A equals X plus Y plus Z. Work is X; Y is play; and Z is keeping your mouth shut. -Albert Einstein "Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself. - Franklin D. Roosevelt" "The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson" All truth passes thru 3 stages. 1st, it is ridiculed. 2nd, it is violently opposed. 3rd, it is accepted as being self-evident. -Schopenhauer We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. -Carlos Castaneda Boats in the harbor are safe but that is not what they are meant for. -Zig Ziglar The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation. -G.B. Shaw "He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees. - Benjamin Franklin" "Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. - Les Brown" The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness. -Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness. -Earl of Derby Nothing will come of nothing; we must dare mighty things. -William Shakespeare Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it. -Unknown If you want to make enemies, try to change something. -Woodrow T. Wilson If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him. -Marcus Annaeus Seneca Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. -Richard Bach If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that 9 will run into the ditch before they reach you. -Coolidge We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living. -Charles R. Brown Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map. -Wayne Calloway Perseverance and audacity generally win! -Madame Dorothe Deluzy Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good. -Eppie Friedman "Plans are nothing; planning is everything. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower" Don't make a mouse of yourself, or else you will be eaten by cats. -German Proverb To do two things at once is to do neither. -Publilius Syrus I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind. -Kahlil Gibran Creative words generate energy; negative words drain out energy. -Robert H. Schuller "There are two rules for success: 1) Never tell everything you know. -Roger H. Lincoln" Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives. -S. Smiles Nothing is so full of victory as patience. He that can have patience can have what he will. -Benjamin Franklin Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. -Henry J. Kaiser The most important thing about goals is having one. -Geoffrey F. Abert The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do. -Sarah Breathnach "There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity. - Samuel Johnson" Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy. -Cynthia Nelms Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it. -J.M. Barrie Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you. -Roger Ebert One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project. -Denis Waitley If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem, break the problem into parts and handle one part at a time. -Collier People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up. -Unknown "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." -William Hazlitt Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do. -Confucius Big shots are little shots that keep shooting. -Christopher Morley Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. -Buddha It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act. -Charles Caleb Colton Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both. -John Andrew Holmes Strivers achieve what dreamers believe. -Usher Raymond Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. -John Wooden Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. -Dale Carnegie He who is firm and resolute in will moulds the world to himself. -Goethe One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. -Andre Gide The trouble with using experience as a guide is that the final exam often comes first and then the lesson. -Unknown There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them. -Phyllis Bottome He who has learned to disagree without being disagreeable has discovered the most valuable secret of a diplomat. -Estabrook "The sleeping fox catches no poultry. - Benjamin Franklin" Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness. -Phyllis Bottome A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life. -Henry Ward Beecher Be pleasant every morning until ten o'clock. The rest of the day will take care of itself. -Col. William C. Hunter Success and rest don't sleep together. -Russian proverb Joy comes from using your potential. -Will Schultz None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct. -Luigi Pirandello I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and -- I can't remember what the third thing is. -Fred A. Allen "Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. - Franklin P. Jones" "Opportunity is lost by deliberation. - Publilius Syrus" The surest cure for loneliness, the quickest way to happiness, is found in this, a simple creed: Go serve someone in greater need. -W Ward Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of. -Christy Borgeld Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves. - Zig Ziglar Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners. -Dale Carnegie It is better to err on the side of initiative than inactivity. -B.C. Forbes Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success. -Dr. Joyce Brothers When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence. -Spanish Proverb Fall seven times, stand up eight. -Japanese Proverb The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. -John Ruskin Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open. -Thomas Robert Dewar Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into. - Wayne Dyer When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you. -Irving Layton If you look into your own heart and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to fear? -Confucius If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one. -John Galsworthy Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. -Albert Einstein "The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory. - Blaise Pascal" No matter how often you are defeated, you are born to victory. -Ralph Waldo Emerson We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people. -Arthur Schopenhauer "Follow your instincts - you never know if your ideas will work out unless you try them." -Lulu Guinness Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly. -Robert H. Schulle Experience is a comb that life gives you after you lose your hair. -Judith Stern Optimist: someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it's a cha-cha. -R Brault Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down. -Hitopadesa "He who commences many things finishes but few." -H.G. Bohn Having a sharp tongue will cut your throat. -Unknown The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. -Helen Keller Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving. -Dennis Waitley To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it. -Josh Jenkins Continuous effort! not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking your potential. -Winston Churchill No rules for success will work if you don't. -Unknown You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory or go back to the desk. -Eric Burdon Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first. -Pearl Bailey Few people get to do what they want to do in life. Be one of them. -Andy Broer Keep true to the dreams of your youth. -Johann Friedrich Von Schiller Give whatever you are doing and whomever you are with the gift of your attention. -Jim Rohn Powerful dreams inspire powerful action. When you can taste, smell, and touch your dream, you can enroll the world. -Jon Huie A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. -Mary Kay Ash When fortune knocks upon the door, open it widely. -Chilean proverb Worry is wasting today's time cluttering up tomorrow's opportunites with yesterday's troubles. -unknown A minute's success pays the failure of years. -Robert Browning Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind. -Emily P. Bissell Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out. -Lady Blessington Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible. -Leo Tolstoy Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect. -Vince Lombardi Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. -Eric Hoffer How to succeed: try hard enough. How to fail: try too hard -Malcolm S. Forbes You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. -Margaret Thatcher "Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them. -unknown "We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do. - Dale Carnegie" No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not annoy his host after three days. -Plautus If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much. -Charles Dodgson All things are difficult before they are easy. -Thomas Fuller The failure wishes he could do things he could never do. He thinks little of what he can do. -Mark Caine It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. -EE Cummings "Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others. - Wayne Dyer" Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. -Napoleon Hill The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. -Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance. -William Ellery Channing If we want to make something really superb on this planet, there is nothing whatever that can stop us. -Shepherd Mead We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over. -Aneurin Bevan I prefer to be remembered for what I have done for others, not what others have done for me. -Thomas Jefferson The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. -Voltaire Small opportunities are often the beginnings of great enterprises. -Demosthenes "You can't know too much, but you can say too much. - Calvin Coolidge" "Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world." -George Bernard Shaw He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words. -Elbert Hubbard Your ability will grow to match your dreams. -Jim Rohn If we think happy thoughts, we will be happy. If we think miserable thoughts, we will be miserable. -Dale Carnegie So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's. -Nietzsche (??) To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition. -Samuel Johnson Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily. -J Von Schiller It's so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you just do it. -Robert M. Pirsig We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world. -Helen Keller Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. -Benjamin Disraeli "What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? - George Eliot" Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character. -Horace Greeley "Not failure, but low aim, is crime. - James Russell Lowell" A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. -Paul J. Meyer Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. -Mahatma Gandhi People can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking. -John Lubbock You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes. -Winnie the Pooh You must do the thing that you think you cannot do. -Eleanor Roosevelt Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. -Harriet Beecher Stowe Your capacity to say No determines your capacity to say Yes to greater things. -Stanley Jones Your integrity will affect your destiny; don't leave home without it. -Clarence E. Hodges The most effective way to do it, is to do it. -Toni Cade Bambara "Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He does not want to sign His name. - Anatole France" Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. -Brian Tracy "We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems. -John W. Gardner" "The reason most goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first. -McKain" Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. -Horace Kindness is the evidence of greatness. If anyone is glad that you are here, then you have not lived in vain. -Charles Hoffman Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together. -Joseph Joubert "You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time. - Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues" It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do. -Elbert Hubbard Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals. -Aristotle The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does. -Napoleon Hill Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness. -William Gladstone It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles. -Claude M. Bristol Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. -John Quincy Adams Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve. -Wilfred A. Peterson In matter of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. -Thomas Jefferson "A great-souled hero must transcend the slavish thinking of those around him." -Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. -Shaw We are kept from our goal not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal. -Robert Brault Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment. -Heywood Broun "Two rules of success in life: 1. Don't tell people everything you know. -Anonymous" "One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die. -Evelyn Waugh" Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. -Saint Francis of Assisi "Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser. - Thomas Carlyle" "You have not lived a perfect day...unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you." -Ruth Smeltzer When you cease to dream you cease to live. -Malcolm S. Forbes We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. -Longfellow A man who finds no satisfaction in himself will seek for it in vain elsewhere. -La Rochefoucauld "The Muses love the Morning. - Benjamin Franklin" Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. -Thomas Szasz Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. -Hosea Ballou "People who are sensible about love are incapable of it." -Douglas Yates Thanksgiving is a sure index of spiritual health. -Maurice Dametz You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. -Dianne Feinstein Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience. -Victoria Holt There is nothing impossible to him who will try. -Alexander The Great Do what you fear and fear disappears. -David J. Schwartz The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do. -Roy L. Smith Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it. -Julia Child "If you do not develop the hunger and courage to pursue your goal, you will lose your nerve and you will give up on your dream. - Les Brown" I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution. -Wernher von Braun "Opportunities multiply as they are seized." - Sun Tzu "All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. - Edward Gibbon" Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor. -H. Jackson Brown, Jr. We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory. -Cicero The world makes way for a man who knows where he is going. -Ralph Waldo Emerson "Never be afraid to sit awhile and think. -Lorraine Hansbury "The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. - John Locke" "Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything. - W. Clement Stone" What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail? -Robert Schuller "Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality. - Nicolas Chamfort" "I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back. - Abraham Lincoln" Unless you give yourself to some great cause, you haven't even begun to live. -William P. Merrill Happiness is like perfume: you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself. -James Van Der Zee When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions... -W. Clement Stone Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world. -Joel Barker Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. -William Blake True elegance consists of saying all that should be said, and that only. -La Rochefoucauld You have to "be" before you can "do," and do before you can "have." -Zig Ziglar All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. -Henry Miller Know what you want to do, then do it. Make straight for your goal and go undefeated in spirit to the end. -Ernestine Schumann-Heink One must desire something to be alive: perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death. -Margaret Deland Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance. -Benjamin Franklin It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. -Harry S. Truman No matter what the level of your ability, you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime. -James Mccay To become fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself. -Herbert A. Otto The fool needs company, the wise solitude. -Unknown If we do not discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us. -William Feather "Since you have to do the things you have to do, be wise enough to do some of the things you want to do." -Malcolm Forbes Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it. -Joel A. Barker I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. -Thomas A. Edison You have no idea how big the other fellow's troubles are. -B.C. Forbes If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires. -Abigail Van Buren Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. -Marie Curie A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit. -Desiderius Erasmus A determinate purpose of life, and steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages, are indispensable conditions of success. -W Punshon The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. -Mignon McLaughlin We are so busy doing the urgent that we don't have time to do the important. -Confucius Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills. -B.C. Forbes You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip. -J. Barrie There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees. -Michel de Montaigne He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. -Mary Wilson Little Blessed is the person who sees the need, recognizes the responsibility, and actively becomes the answer. -William A. Ward Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. -R. Rilke A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows. -W James The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed. -Frank Romer Man cannot aspire if he looks down; if he rise, he must look up. -Samuel Smiles "When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt." - Henry J. Kaiser People are the custodians of the world's wealth; if u want them to hand some over to u, u have to be nice to people! -Wilde "A really great talent finds its happiness in execution. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" "Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think." -Benjamin Disraeli The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident. -Charles Lamb "Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. - Dale Carnegie" It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly. -Isaac Asimov One of the most important principles of success is developing the habit of going the extra mile. -Napoleon Hill Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. -Theodore Roosevelt If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances. -Alberto Salazar Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. -Baruch Benedict de Spinoza Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind. -Johann G. Seume "Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions." -Albert Einstein When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them. -Plato One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout. -Unknown However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Having harvested all the wisdom we can from our mistakes and failures, we should put them behind us and go ahead. -Edith Johnson I hold it to be a fact, that if all persons knew what each said of the other, there would not be for friends in the world. -Pascal The real essence of work is concentrated energy. -Walter Begehot "You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him. - Lou Holtz" Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. -Elbert Hubbard "Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness. - Thomas Huxley" "What is emphasized will either make you miserable or make you happy. The amount of work is the same. -Carlos Castaneda" Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience. -Victoria Holt To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist. -Gail Sheehy Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire. -Bobby Unser To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power. -George MacDonald Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant; there is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks. -J Von Herder A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder. -Eileen Caddy When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown. -Hugh Prather Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. -Italian Proverb We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. -Maya Angelou "Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves." -Abraham Lincoln It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going. -Brian Tracy The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. - Franklin P. Jones "Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can. - Thomas Carlyle" I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression. -Margaret Fuller People who take risks are the people you'll lose against. -John Sculley There are no speed limits on the road to excellence. -David Johnson There is far more opportunity than there is ability. -Thomas A. Edison Men of genius do not excel in any profession Because they labor in it, but they labor in it Because they excel. -Hazlitt I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. -Thomas Jefferson You may not accomplish every goal you set...but what really matters is having goals & going after them wholeheartedly. -Les Brown I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close. Henry J. Kaiser If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk. -Raymond Inmon "Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored. - Wayne Dyer" "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. - William James" The recipe for perpetual ignorance is be satisfied with your opinions & content with your knowledge. -Elbert Hubbard If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. -Andy McIntyre & Derek Bok Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent. -Antoine Rivarol Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance. -C.W. Wendte Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -Groucho Marx The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office. -Frost Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense. -Chinese Proverb Enjoy the journey, enjoy every moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing. -Matt Biondi Inspirational Quotes If you can imagine it, you can create it. If you dream it, you can become it. -William Arthur Ward A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. -Eisenhower I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all. -Emerson Close scrutiny will show that most "crisis situations" are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are. -Maxwell Maltz "I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent. - Publilius Syrus" Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal. -Charles Buxton The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind. -Mahatma Gandhi Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price. -Hill If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. -Dr. Wayne Dyer Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is. -H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed. -Dyer Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. -Mark Twain "This world belongs to the energetic." -Emerson There is only one small letter between the words can and can't and that one letter will totally change your destiny. -Firebaugh To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. -Donald Laird Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright. -Benjamin Franklin I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time. -Anna Freud Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough. -Unknown The quickest way to reach the point of success is to follow a straight line that carves through failure. -Josh Traeger If you want to stand out, don't be different, be outstanding. -Meredith West Trust that still, small voice that says, "This might work and I'll try it." -Diane Mariechild No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty. -George Eliot A positive attitude may not solve every problem but it makes solving any problem a more pleasant experience. -Grant Fairley I like the man who faces what he must, With steps triumphant and a heart of cheer; Who fights the daily battle without fear. -Sarah Bolton Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. -Emerson The more chance there is of stubbing your toe, the more chance you have of stepping into success. -Anonymous "A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged." -Montaigne "Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr." Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds. -Peale Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste! -Les Brown "What you become directly influences what you get. - Jim Rohn" Waste not, want not; willful waste makes woeful want. -Ben Franklin The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. -Ayn Rand Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence. -Vince Lombardi Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry. -Robert Schuller To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad. -Oliver Wendell Holmes Resolve to keep happy and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. -Helen Keller "When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before. -Henry David Thoreau" If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good. -Ralph Waldo Emerson I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it. -Gayle Sayers If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune. -Griff Niblack "Victory; a matter of staying power. - Elbert Hubbard" When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves. -Henry Ford "Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea. - Jim Rohn" If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves. -Thomas Edison The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. -Eden Phillports As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. -Henry David Thoreau It is not impossibilities which fill us with the deepest despair, but possibilities which we have failed to realize. -Robert Mallett Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be. -Og Mandino A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine. -Meher Baba I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them. -Pablo Picasso I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build. -John D. Rockefeller The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer. -George Santayana Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. -C.S. Lewis I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. -Michael Jordan """An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field."" - Niels Bohr" "We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough." -Helen Keller Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. -Robert Louis Stevenson Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power. -Lao-Tzu You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. -L. Peter Anybody with a little guts & the desire to apply himself can make it; he can make anything he wants to make of himself. -W Shoemaker Courage is fear that has said its prayers. -Dorothy Bernard "When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. - Mary Kay Ash" Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. -Walter Elliott Fate only takes you so far, then it's up to you to make it happen. -Unknown There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. -Oscar Wilde It is the man who is waiting for his ship to come in that is always missing the boat. -Unknown Your enthusiasm will be infectious, stimulating & attractive to others. They will love you for it. They will go for you & with you. -Peale There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. -T. Roosevelt Those who begin many things finish but a few. -Italian Proverb "People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily." -Zig Ziglar 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. -Cantor Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence. -Pythagoras A good goal is like a strenuous exercise -- it makes you stretch. -Mary Kay Ash Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true. -John Keats We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we can not put our heart. -John Ruskin A critic is a man who knows the way, but can't drive the car. -Kenneth Tynan The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams. -Elizabeth Gilbert Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard thing makes it impossible. -Geroge Lorimer Most men fail, not through lack of education, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will. -Orison Swett Marden Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win. -Denis Waitley When you realize you've made a mistake, make amends immediately. It's easier to eat crow while it's still warm. -Dan Heist There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. -Freya Stark You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. -James Allen "Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done." -Persian Proverb "The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in. - E. W. Howe" A habit is first a wanderer, then a guest, and finally the boss. -Hungarian Proverb Man's dreams are an index to his greatness. -Zadok Rabinowitz "If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. - Marcus Aurelius" Opportunity does not knock; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -Kyle Chandler In the arena of life the honors & rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action. -Aristotle The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool. -George Santayana A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life. -James Allen "Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it. - Lou Holtz" The purpose of life is a life of purpose. -Robert Byrne We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. -Omar Nelson Bradley Positive anything is better than negative nothing. -Elbert Hubbard Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me. -Montaigne Accept fate, and move on. Don't yield to the seductive pull of self-pity. Acting like a victim threatens your future. -Unknown Only that traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home, and enables me to enjoy it better. -Thoreau We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't. -Frank A. Clark "The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment. -William Arthur Ward" A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so. -Belva Davis In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. -Daniel L. Reardon Before preparing to improve the world, first look around your own home three times. -Chinese Proverb Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. -Albert Einstein Goals help you channel your energy into action. -Les Brown One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead. -Oscar Wilde A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means. -William Hazlitt If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. - Mary Engelbreit "Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine - Ralph Waldo Emerson" You can choose to be lazy or you can choose to be ambitious. Don't you do your own choosing? -Martin Kohe More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent. -Billy Sunday "It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste" - Henry Ford "My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. -Abraham Lincoln" 1 out of 4 people is mentally imbalanced. Think of your 3 closest friends. If they seem ok, then you're the one. -Ann Landers You cannot be very smart if you have never done anything foolish. -French Proverb It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote. -Samuel Johnson You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones. -Dale Earnhardt Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life. -Les Brown The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going. -David Starr Jordan That best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. -William Wordsworth "Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels. -Orison Swett Marden" The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Poust "Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win." - Nadia Comaneci I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. -G.K. Chesterton It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it. -W. Somerset Maugham If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves. -Thomas Edison "Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress." -Thomas Edison "A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. - Ralph Waldo Emerson" One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals. -Michael Korda Our doubts are our traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. -William Shakespeare By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value. -Jim Rohn "Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do." -Raymond Mortimer "Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity. - Lou Holtz" "A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle." -Kahlil Gibran Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. -Nelson Mandela "Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor. - Brian Tracy" If you want to see the sun shine, you have to weather the storm. -Frank Lane If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. -John Quincy Adams The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching. -Dennis Green Wealth is not a matter of intelligence it's a matter of inspiration. -Jim Rohn The door of opportunity won't open unless you do some pushing. -Unknown Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something. -Henry David Thoreau Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice. -Wayne Dyer "Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting." -Christopher Morley Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. -Newt Gingrich "Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder." -George Washington There's a way to do better...find it. -Thomas Edison If you want to perform a good jump, sometimes you need to start by taking a step back. -German Proverb The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement. -Og Mandino "People of humor are always in some degree people of genius. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge" Experience runs a valuable school, but fools learn in no other. -Italian Proverb Our beliefs about what we are and what we can be precisely determine what we can be. -Tony Robbins Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. -Napoleon Hill "The man who is born with a talent which he is meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it." -Goethe What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -Walt Emerson Self-confidence is the result of a successfully survived risk. -Jack Gibb I am always more interested in what I am about to do than in what I have already done. -Rachel Carson Don't let other people tell you what you want. -Pat Riley There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. -Robert Louis Stevenson If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. -Jim Rohn If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself. -A. Neilen It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something. -Ornette Coleman One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are. -Gail Godwin Tell others of the positive effects of their actions. It will help return the kindness they showed to you. -Dan Kelly "There is little success where there is little laughter." - Andrew Carnegie Unless you try to do something beyond what you have mastered, you will never grow. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. -William James Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. -Thomas Edison It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage. -Beecher We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed. -Charles Caleb Colton There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. -Norman Vincent Peale The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum. -Menander of Athens (BC342-291) "If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade." - Thomas J. Peters One thing I like about stones in my path is when I cross them they become my milestones. -Anonymous "Do you agree? ""All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions."" -Adlai E. Stevenson" Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence. They go stark, raving mad. -Fyodor Dostoevsky All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination. -Earl Nightingale A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. -Greek proverb "Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward. - Robert Collier" Give the world the best that you have, and the best will come back to you. -Madeline Bridges "Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly. - Mary Kay Ash" I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure--which is: Try to please everybody. -Josh Billings "Be pleasant every morning until ten o'clock. The rest of the day will take care of itself. -Col. William C. Hunter" I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it. -Dorothy Parker "Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late - Benjamin Franklin" People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first. -David H Comins Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. -Mark Twain I'm not a great motivator. I just get rid of guys who can't motivate themselves. -Lou Holtz There are no failures in life, only those who give up too soon. -Unknown You always get negative reactions. If you worry about that, you would never do anything. -Tom Monaghan When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given. -Barbara Sher There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse. -John Locke Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. -William James The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it. -Sir William Osler Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life. -Robert Louis Stevenson Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite. -EH Chapin Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will. -Mary W. Stewart Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been. -Josh Billings (1815-1885) We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life. -JF Clarke You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing. -Marie Stopes Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. -Henry David Thoreau It takes no more effort to expect the best than to fear the worst. It's healthier, more productive, & a lot more fun. -Hambert Change is imminent! We must enthusiastically embrace it, manage it, and craft it to our advantage. -Steve Craft Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily. -Sally Koch Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do. -Albert Gray Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. -Dwight D. Eisenhower Do you agree with this? "It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example." -Fred Hoyle Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all. -J Froude "Harsh counsels have no effect. They are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil." -Claude Helvetius There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done. -Elbert Hubbard "The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success." -Henry Ward Beecher Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. -Dr. Laura Schlessinger One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time. -John Wanamaker Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. -Danny Kaye We cannot really think in one way and act in another... -Thomas Troward The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves. -Garth Henrichs Don't let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead give to yourself that which empowers you. -Les Brown Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations. -Edward De Bono "Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar." Edmund Burke- "Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours. - Les Brown" There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. -Denis Waitley You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction. -Geroge Lorimer """The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish."" - Henrik Ibsen" If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life. -Maslow Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so. -Marcus Antoninus Once you're moving, you can keep moving. -Ronald Alan Weiss Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. -Colin Powell "Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't. - Richard Bach" "How much we like ourselves governs our performance. - Brian Tracy" "Enthusiasm is a kind of faith that has been set afire." -George Matthew Adams The squeaky wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced. -Unknown "People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing." -Dale Carnegie The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for. -Fyodor Dostoevsky "The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it - Konstantin Stanislavski" Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. -Bertrand Russell "What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? George Eliot" How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is. -Wilhelm von Humboldt What you praise you increase. -Catharine Ponder To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence. -Mark Twain The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success. -Marquis De Vauvenargues There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where a man is free to do what he ought. -Kingsley Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling. -Claude D. Pepper Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions. -Edgar Cayce Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. -Henry Ford "In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can. - Michael Korda" The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it. -Orson Welles A mind once stretched by a new idea never returns to its original dimensions. -Oliver Wendell Holmes Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. -Jim Rohn The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight. -T Roosevelt You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy. -Eric Hoffer The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it. -Henry Ford Never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended for you, and you will succeed. -Sydney Smith Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh; to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies. -Cooley Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours. -Richard Bach Good fortune shies away from gloom. Keep your spirits up. Good things will come to you & you will come to good things. -Abelhas You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result. -Mahatma Gandhi "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." -William James It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know. -Anthony Robbins When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers. -Colleen C. Barrett Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength. -Corrie Ten Boom It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind. -Marden To change and change for the better are two different things -German Proverb The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it, with whole heart and single mind. -Gail Sheehy "Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken. - Publilius Syrus" Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. -Kyle Chandler "Experience is the name we give to our mistakes. - Oscar Wilde" The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it. -Lou Holtz "Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going." -Jim Ryun The first principle of success is desire -- knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed. -Robert Collier "The wise person questions himself, the fool others." -Henri Arnold Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you have only had wonderful things happen to you. -Mary Tyler Moore "Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. - Orison Swett Marden" What I'm looking for is a blessing that's not in disguise. -Kitty O'Neill Collins The best is the enemy of the good. -Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire You only ever grow as a human being if you're outside your comfort zone. -Percy Cerutty I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being. -Confucius The secret of success is to make your vocation your vacation. -Mark Twain God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you"? -William A. Ward He that rises late must trot all day. -Benjamin Franklin Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare. -George Bernard Shaw Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. -Phillips Brooks Turbulence is a life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change. -Ramsay Clark The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development. -Confucius Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. -George S. Patton Big men become big by doing what they didn't want to do when they didn't want to do it. -Unknown The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious. -Unknown Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, & go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. -Thurman "Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it." -Douglas Jerrold You've got to do your own growing, not matter how tall your grandfather was. -Irish Proverb Do you agree with this? "We only think when we are confronted with problems." -John Dewey When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself. -Shunryu Suzuki When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them. -Peter McWilliams Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. -Robert Frost The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. -John Ruskin We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. -Lee Iacocca If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. -Marcel Proust If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. -Yutang, Lin The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim. -Napoleon Hill "We were born to succeed, not to fail. - Henry David Thoreau" Great things are completed by talented people who believe they will accomplish them. -Warren G. Bennis "What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us. - Robertson Davies" The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. -Ben Stein "It's kind of fun to do the impossible." - Walt Disney Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. -Robert Collier The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. -Socrates "Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter. - B. C. Forbes" Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination. -Fitzhugh Dodson The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die. -George Bernard Shaw Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. -Ovid Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer. -Oscar Wilde The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait. -Anatole Broyard We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back. -David Seabury If you can still read this, you still have a chance! -Ronny M. Cole It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. -Joseph de Maistre The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority. -Ralph Stockman "Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. - Ralph Waldo Emerson" Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you. -Wayne Dyer No person has the right to rain on your dreams. -Marian Wright Edelman This one step--choosing a goal and sticking to it--changes everything. -Scott Reed If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can. -Ivan Lendl You have all eternity to be cautious in when you're dead. -Lois Platford The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best. -George Eliot A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself. -Jan Christian Smuts If you paint in your mind a picture of bright & happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal. -Peale "Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of. - Benjamin Franklin" It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh He that speaks much, is much mistaken. -Benjamin Franklin What man's mind can create, man's character can control. -Thomas Edison "The real fault is to have faults and not amend them. - Confucius" A great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child. -Mencius "No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price. - Orison Swett Marden" When you're out of quality you're out of business. -Unknown The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. -Jim Rohn No man who rises before dawn 365 days a year fails to make his family rich. -Chinese Proverb "The morning is wiser than the evening." -Russian Proverb All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. -Ralph Waldo Emerson I like to deliver more than I promise instead of the other way around. -Dorothy Uhnak Don't wait for your ship to come in, and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small. -Irene Kassorla Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, & fills it with a steady & perpetual serenity. -Joseph Addison What worries you, masters you. -Haddon W. Robinson The only person who never makes mistakes is the person who never does anything. -Denis Waitley It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. -Harry Truman Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead! -Fannie Flagg Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent. -Horatio Smith Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire. -William Butler Yeats Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last. -Chinese Proverb We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. -Maxwell Maltz To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement. -Bertrand Russell "He who stops being better stops being good." -Oliver Cromwell Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. -Chinese Proverb It is the little things that fret and worry us; you can dodge an elephant, but not a fly. -Josh Billings Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold. -Unknown The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going. -Napoleon Hill "Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison" Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick. -George Leonard "Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. -Guillaume Apollinaire Only a life lived for others is worth living. -Albert Einstein A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He's got to keep on delivering as he goes along. -Hubbell Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice, and poverty. -Voltaire He that would have fruit must climb the tree. -Thomas Fuller Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about. -Unknown A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial. -Cliff Fadiman "Success in life is a matter not so much of talent or opportunity as of concentration and perseverance." -C.W. Wendte "A man is himself, plus what he reads." -Parkes Cadman If the sky falls, hold up your hands. -Spanish Proverb What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right. -Ralph Waldo Emerson "We can be Knowledgeable with other mens knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other mens wisdom. -Michel de Montaigne" The more you say, the less people remember. -Francois Fenelon Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away. -Sir Arthur Helps Don't be humble, you're not that great. -Golda Meir The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success. -Henry Ward Beecher Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. -Abraham Lincoln "People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals -- that is, goals that do not inspire them. -Tony Robbins" "A man should ever be ready booted to take his journey. - Michel de Montaigne" There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. -Peter Drucker Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at. -Don Marquis "Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement." -Henry Ford Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. -Faulkner The morning is wiser than the evening. -Russian Proverb Personal power is the ability to take action. -Anthony Robbins Perseverance: A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success. -Ambrose Bierce Wake up with a smile and go after life.... Live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it. -Joe Knapp "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working." -Pablo Picasso Have the courage to live. Anyone can die. -Robert Cody The fool who persists in his folly will become wise. -William Blake All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. -Coolidge No matter how good you get you can always get better and that's the exciting part. -Tiger Woods If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been. -Robert Schuller Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. -Herbert Kaufman Patience is bitter, but its fruits are sweet. -Jean-Jacques Rousseau I take a simple view of living. It is, keep your eyes open and get on with it. -Sir Lawrence Olivier We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve. -Maxwell Maltz In this life we get only those things for which we hunt, for which we strive & for which we are willing to sacrifice. -G. Adams He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. -H Wilson The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses. -Napoleon Hill "Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss." -Democritus Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. -Soren Kierkegaard Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it. -Don Herold By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love he may rule the world forever. -Lao-Tzu In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. -Cassius Longinus Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. -George Bernard Shaw Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other. -Brian Tracy Treasure the memories of past misfortunes; they constitute our bank of fortitude. -Eric Hoffer "A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two. - Seneca the Younger" It is terrible to speak well and be wrong. -Sophocles "Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall." -Tobias George Smollett "Set your target and keep trying until you reach it. - Napoleon Hill" Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. -Winston Churchill No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities. -William Boetcker Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment and learn to exercise his will--his personal responsibility. -A. Schweitzer Better the cottage where one is merry than the palace where one weeps. -Chinese Proverb There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity. -Douglas MacArthur A lie runs until truth catches up to it. -Cuban Proverb "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." -Winston Churchill Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change. -Johann Friedrich Von Schiller From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own. -Publilius Syrus "You'll see it when you believe it. - Wayne Dyer" I never prod my nose into other man's porridge. -Miguel De Cervantes Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on the stuff he is made of. -Josh Billings It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation. -Frederick W. Robertson To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead. -Hazlitt Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. -Tony Robbins Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. -Charles F. Kettering It requires less character to discover the faults of others than is does to tolerate them. -J. Petit Senn Never complain about your troubles; they are responsible for more than half of your income. -Robert Updegraff It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -Seneca If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place. -Gita Bellin Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one. -Bill Bradley It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. -Jerome K. Jerome Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. -Christopher Morley To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do. -Susan Blow "If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are. -J Gardner" All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in quiet in one room. -Blaise Pascal There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes. -E Lytton You can get all A's and still flunk life. -Walker Percy I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life. -Margareth II, Queen of Denmark The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry. -unknown Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope. -John Johnson There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. -Edith Wharton A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. -Henrik Ibsen "Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud. - Sophocles" Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet. -Roy D. Chapin Jr. We can never give up the belief that good guys always win. And that we are the good guys. -Faith Popcorn If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax. -Abraham Lincoln Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it. -Thomas Eakins If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches. -James Burgh To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. -Francis Crawford There is no failure. Only feedback. -Robert Allen Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again. -Zora Neale Hurston True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful. -Paul Sweeney A stumble may prevent a fall. -English Proverb "A distracted existence leads us to no goal. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road. -Beecher "Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand. - Thomas Carlyle" Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. Robert H. Schuller In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. -Thomas Jefferson Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements. -Unknown Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy. -Brian Tracy "Flying off the handle sometimes causes hammers and humans to lose their heads, as well as their effectiveness." -William Arthur Ward They only live who dare. -Lewis Morris The extreme delight we experience in talking about ourselves should warn us that those who listen do not share it. -La Rochefoucauld The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. -Unknown When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. -Victor Frankl Presence is more than just being there. -Malcolm Forbes If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong. -Charles F. Kettering Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. -Robert Anthony You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however. -Richard Bach It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort. -Theodore Roosevelt Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth. -Julie Andrews The Law of Win/Win says, "Let's not do it your way or my way; let's do it the best way. -Greg Anderson I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true. -Debi Thomas "It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing." -Seneca The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. -Pratchett No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes. -William E. Gladstone A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations. -Gerald Jampolsky Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them. -Alfred North Whitehead Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. -J. C. Penney The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. -Colin Wilson It is never too late to be who you might have been. -George Eliot A dream is not something that you wake up from, but something that wakes you up. -Charlie Hedges Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. -Norman Vincent Peale You have to take it as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it. -German proverb I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. -John Locke "Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper." -Francis Bacon The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome. -Jonathan Swift Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure. -Roosevelt The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures. -Sir Humphrey Davy To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. -Winston Churchill You always pass failure on the way to success. -Mickey Rooney They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed. -Socrates "Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed." -Bovee Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business. -Clara Barton Today, the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears. Today, wealth is contained in brainpower, not brutepower. -Brian Tracy He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. -B Franklin A person's character reaches town before the person does. -Danish Proverb If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old. -Lord Chesterfield To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. -Lao-Tzu Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind the stronger the trees. -Willard J. Marriott The fun of being alive is realizing that you have a talent and you can use it every day, so it grows stronger. -Lou Centlivre If you want work well done, select a busy man; the other kind has no time. -Elbert Hubbard Like farmers we need to learn that we cannot sow and reap the same day. -Unknown Many a man never fails because he never tries. -Norman MacEwan Fortune befriends the bold. -John Dryden Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. -Helen Keller You must do the thing you think you cannot do. -Eleanor Roosevelt Things may come to those who wait...but only the things left by those who hustle. - Abraham Lincoln You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour. -Unknown What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. -Thomas Paine If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures. -unknown Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences. -Nehru What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility. -George Levinger People with goals succeed because they know where they're going. -Earl Nightingale Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken. -Frank Herbert Watch out for emergencies. They are your big chance. -Fritz Reiner Opportunity! Often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. -Napoleon Hill A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. -G.B. Shaw Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. -H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible. -Rochefoucauld "First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -Gandhi I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's. -Henry Moore "Opportunities multiply as they are seized." -Sun Tzu It's never too late--in fiction or in life--to revise. -Nancy Thayer No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius. -Anna Pavlova In the long run, the pessimist may be proved to be right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. -Daniel Reardon Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul. -J Stevens People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. -Ralph Waldo Emerson "You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds. - Earl Nightingale" If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards. -John Henry Newman "Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others." - Robert Louis Stevenson Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations. -Ralph Charell Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it. -John Keats In each of us there are places we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them. -Dr. Joyce Brothers Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void. -William James It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. -Eleanor Roosevelt To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun? -Katherine Graham Within you is the divine capacity to manifest and attract all you desire. -Wayne Dyer It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate. -Eric Hoffer Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel. -E. Magnin The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail. -Hil What is important what I consider success is that we make a contribution to our world. -Ben Carson Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity. - Fitzhenry The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts. -Booker T. Washington Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. -Henry Ford We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough. -Helen Keller He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how. -Friedrich Nietzsche Even if something has just a 1% chance of success, success comes down to how fast you exhaust your 99% of failures. -Unknown Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. -Langston Hughes "In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time. -Anthony D'Angelo" The dread of criticism is the death of genius. -William Gilmore Simms He who does not tire, tires adversity. -Tupper The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. -Frances Willard "A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her." - David Brinkley To every problem there is already a solution whether you know it or not. -Grenville Kleiser He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. -Edmund Burke Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice. -Eleanor Roosevelt A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result. -Gisela Richter Either remain quiet, or say things that improve the silence. -Greek Proverb Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. -Sydney Smith I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs, but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. -George S. Patton Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. -Sandara Carey "When people are bored it is primarily with themselves. - Eric Hoffer" Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. -Earl Wilson He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy. -Goethe "The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does." -Sir James M. Barrie What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. -Zig Ziglar Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts. -Jean Vanier Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. -Oliver Wendell Holmes Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know. -Jim Rohn A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road. -Henry Ward Beecher The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. -William Blake Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments. -Henry Ward Beecher Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited. -Napoleon Hill "Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire. Here's what would be pitiful, if your income grew and you didn't. -Jim Rohn" "Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. - Victor Hugo" You aren't learning anything when you're talking. -Lyndon B. Johnson I have learned silence from the talkative; tolerance from the intolerant; and kindness from the unkind. -Kahlil Gibran Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread. -Richard Wright It appears I am destined for something; I will live. -Robert Clive Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain. -Euripides A pound a fret can't pay an ounce a debt. -Jamaican Proverb One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed. -Nietzsche The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world. -O.S. Marden In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important. -Les Brown "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. - Albert Einstein" Sandwich every bit of criticism between two heavy layers of praise. -Mary Kay Ash Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it. -Wayne Dyer Our trials are tests; our sorrows pave the way for a fuller life when we have earned it. -Jerome P. Fleishman I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money. -George Rainbow "Good fences make good neighbors. - Robert Frost" "It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives. - Tony Robbins" I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is a temporary situation. -Mike Todd Successful people do the icky stuff! -Kyle Eastham Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief; your time for joy will come, believe me. -Aleksandr Pushkin Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities. -Robert H. Schuller It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents. -Eric Hoffer Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune. -Socrates Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself. -Theodore T. Hunger Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. -Henry Ford Some people will never learn anything, for this reason: because they understand everything too soon. -Alexander Pope The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning. -Denis Waitley You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. -Les Brown Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way. -Abraham Lincoln Initiative is doing the right thing without being told. -Victor Hugo You cannot find peace by avoiding life. -Virginia Woolf You seldom get what you go after unless you know in advance what you want. -Maurice Switzer "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. - Les Brown" """Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions."" - Cullen Hightower" "The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear. - Brian Tracy" Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates. -Smiles I don't think much of a man no wiser today than he was yesterday. -Abraham Lincoln Nothing external to you has any power over you. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. -Indira Gandhi "If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade."- Tom Peters People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. -Stephen R. Covey When life gives you lemons, please, just don't squirt them in other people's eyes. -J. Andrew Helt It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -Seneca the Younger He that allows himself to be a worm must not complain if he is trodden on. -Kant Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. -Helen Keller "If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams. - Les Brown" Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. -Bertrand Russell The person who masters himself through self-control and discipline is truly undefeatable. -Buddha Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled. -Benjamin Spock Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade. -Benjamin Franklin A life lived in fear is a life half lived. -Tara Morice as Fran Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results. -Willie Nelson The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder. -Gilbert K. Chesterton Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. -Louis Pasteur If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get. -Charles F. Kettering The book you don't read won't help. -Jim Rohn When I talked, no one listened to me. But as soon as I acted I became persuasive, and I no longer find anyone incredulous. -Giosue Borsi "You become what you think about. - Earl Nightingale" The moving-van is a symbol of more than our restlessness; it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress." -Kronenberger I am not the smartest or most talented person in the world. But I succeeded because I keep going and going and going. -Sylvester Stallone Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live. -John Dewey You make yourself and others suffer just as much when you take offense as when you give offense. -Ken Keyes Jr (!) Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. -Og Mandino "Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes. - Napoleon Hill" Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought into a focus. -Alexander Graham Bell "The path to success is to take massive, determined action. - Tony Robbins" "The secret of success in life, is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes." -Disraeli There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet. -William F. Halsey To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee. -William Walton Commit yourself to life long learning. The most valuable asset you will ever have is your mind and what you put into it. -Poh Yu Khing It is aspiration that counts, not realization; pursuit, not achievement; quest, no conquest. -Beatrice Harraden Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends. -H.L. Mencken Accomplishment is easiest when we work the hardest, and it is hardest when we work the easiest. -unknown "Control your destiny or somebody else will." -Jack Welsh Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. -Elie Wiesel The world isn't interested in the storms you encountered, but whether or not you brought in the ship. -Raul Armesto With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things. -William Wordsworth Every achiever that I have ever met says, "My life turned around when I began to believe in me." -Robert H. Schuller A fault that is denied once is committed twice. -French Proverb Little minds are too much wounded by little things; great minds see all these little things and are not hurt. -Rochefoucauld In times of stress, be bold and valiant. -Horace "I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. - Aristotle" Success is where preparation and opportunity meet. -Bobby Unser Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling that desire. -Epictetus Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact. -Thomas Troward We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all. -Jean De La Bruyere In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. -Albert Camus "Man attains in the measure that he aspires." -James Allen Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. -Arnold H. Glasgow "Never mistake activity for achievement. - John Wooden" Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold. -Eric Butterworth Don't stand shivering upon the bank; plunge in at once, and have it over. -Sam Slick Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men. -Spanish Proverb Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. -Charlie McCarthy The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. -Einstein The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment. -Publilius Syrus "All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. - Walt Disney" What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction. -Hippocrates Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them. -Andrew V. Mason Active natures are rarely melancholy. Activity & sadness are incompatible. -Christian Bovee Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record each and everyday, and you are a success. -William Boetcker It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire. -Denis Diderot We are progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as staying stationary in this life. -JF Clarke The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. -William Hazlitt In the last analysis, what we ARE communicates far more eloquently than anything we SAY. -Unknown Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. -Henri Louis Bergson Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits. -W James The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes. -Benjamin Disraeli "There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge." -Bertrand Russell Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. -Henry Kissinger True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world. -Rochefoucauld Press on. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. -Ray Kroc It's no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. -Winston Churchill "We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us." -Bovee There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming. -Kierkegaard Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong. -Peter Mcintyre The man who wins may have been counted out several times but he didn't hear the referee. -H.E. Jansen Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it. -Buddha "Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments. - Henry Ward Beecher" Experience teaches only the teachable. -Aldous Huxley Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish. -Ovid The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow. -Rupert Murdoch If you want to build high, you must dig deep. -Mongolian Proverb Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle. -Napoleon Hill We conquer by continuing. -George Matheson Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground. -Josh Billings Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person. -Unknown It's kind of fun to do the impossible. -Walt Disney It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions. -Marcel Proust Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are. -John W. Gardner Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom. -Queen Elizabeth "Everyone wants to change the world, but no one wants to help mom with the dishes." -? Success is not a matter of desire, but the product of hard work. -Jace Barringer Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. -William James The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way. -Josh Billings A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. -David Brinkley Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting. -Robert Brault A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake. -Confucius All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. -Walt Disney The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. -Carlyle You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization. -Waitley "Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. - William James" The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. -Joseph Joubert If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life. -Billy Graham If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin. -Ivan Turgenev Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. -Marden Once we discover how to appreciate the timeless values in our daily experiences, we can enjoy the best things in life. -Harry Hepner Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing. -Robert Schuller "I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity. - John D. Rockefeller" It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. -Bristol "Kindness is loving people more than they deserve. - Joseph Joubert" Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help. -Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) "Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy." -Sa'Di "Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live. - Jose Ortega y Gasset" I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. -Jack London Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record each and everyday, and you are a success. -W. Boetcker Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems. -Nelson A. Rockefeller The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later. -Emerson Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. -Henry van Dyke Perseverance and audacity generally win. -Dorothee DeLuzy We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are. -Tobias Wolff "Success, remember is the reward of toil. - Sophocles" "The cure for sorrow is to learn something. - Barbara Sher" It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. -William James People R forever buying things they don't need, with money they don't have, to please people they don't like. -Rogers Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor. -Brian Tracy Believing in yourself is an endless destination. Believing you have failed is the end of the journey. -Unknown Don't waste today regretting yesterday instead of making a memory for tomorrow. -Laura Palmer For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will. -Henri Frederic Amiel Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get. -Ray Kroc Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe. -Claudia Black Cheerfulness in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline. -Edwin P. Whipple Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can. -Thomas Carlyle We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges. -Abram Sacher To try and fail is at least to learn. To fail to try is to suffer the loss of what might have been. -Benjamin Franklin Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. -A.W. Hare Each year, one vicious habit rooted out in time ought to make the worst man good. -Franklin Most troubles arise from loafing when we should be working or talking when we should be listening. -Arnold Glasow We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon. -Doug Horton "The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it." - Henry Ford Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better. -Jim Rohn Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. -F. Scott Fitzgerald I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind. -George Bernard Shaw Words are mere bubbles of water, but deeds are drops of gold. -Chinese Proverb - or Like "We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. - Anaïs Nin" We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within. -Earl Nightingale Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open. -Rose Lane A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug. -Patricia Neal Luck is largely a matter of paying attention. -Susan M. Dodd Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. -Joseph Addison No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years. -Lord Alfred Tennyson Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. -Dale Carnegie Go out and buy yourself a 5 cent pencil and a 10 cent notebook and begin to write down some million-dollar ideas for yourself. -Grinde "He that can have patience can have what he will. - Benjamin Franklin" How do I work? I grope. - Albert Einstein "When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do. - Charles M. Schwab" To hear complaints is tiresome to the miserable and the happy. -Unknown Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of. -Charles Haddon Spurgeon It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life. -Victor Hugo "Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare." - Dale Carnegie Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others. -Seabury People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be -- not what you nag them to be. -S.N. Parker The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little. -W.R. Alger Your current situation is no indication of your ultimate potential! -Anthony Robbins "If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no." -Nora Roberts "The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place. - Orison Swett Marden" If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that 9 will run into the ditch before they reach you. -C. Coolidge "If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. - Tony Robbins" The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come. -Lee Iacocca Everything you want is on the other side of fear. -Jack Canfield Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once. -Norman Vincent Peale Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself. -Thomas Watson "We grow great by dreams." -Woodrow Wilson Man attains in the measure that he aspires. His longing to be is the gauge of what he can be. -James Allen When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust your actions. - Confucius You were born an original. Don't die a copy. -John Mason Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim. -John D. Rockefeller Success is 99 percent failure. -Soichiro Honda "When you expect things to happen -- strangely enough -- they do happen. - J. P. Morgan" True miracles are created by men when they use the courage and intelligence that God gave them. -Jean Anouilh We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. -Anais Nin (1914-1977) Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential. -Liane Cardes A small drop of ink produces that which makes thousands think. -Lord Byron Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue. -Edgar Quinet (1803-1875) Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul. -Sir J. Stephen Cherish you visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate achievements. -Napoleon Hill And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. -Abraham Lincoln "Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together. - Joseph Joubert" Some of us are like wheelbarrows, only useful when pushed and easily upset. -Jack Herbert Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood. -Pope Boniface VIII Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes. - Henry J. Kaiser Let thy discontents be thy secrets. -Benjamin Franklin You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you. -Brian Tracy If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen. -Cher The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. -Lao-Tzu As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. -George Bernard Shaw Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience. -Denis Waitley The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others. -unknown Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes. -Aesop (620-560 BC) Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last. -H Holt It may be those who do most, dream most. -Stephen B. Leacock Never give advice in a crowd. -Arabian Proverb "Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions." - Albert Einstein Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets. -Michael Korda To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors & mistakes, the wise & good learn wisdom for the future. -Plutarch There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work. -Charles E. Wilson You begin by always expecting good things to happen -Tom Hopkins If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people. -Graffiti "Fall seven times, stand up eight." -Japanese proverb "Endure, and preserve yourself for better things." -Virgil Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission. -Zig Ziglar There is clearly much left to be done, and whatever else we are going to do, we had better get on with it. -Rosalynn Carter Indecision and delays are the parents of failure. -George Canning Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else. -William Saroyan Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. -Albert Einstein "All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us. - Albert Einstein" Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it. -Sam Ewing Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. -Anne Lindbergh If you can't, you must. If you must, you can. -Anthony Robbins Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. -Ralph Waldo Emerson "Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time. - Brian Tracy" Rust consumes iron and envy consumes itself. -Danish Proverb "It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate." -Eric Hoffer Some faults are so closely allied to qualities that it is difficult to weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue. -O. Goldsmith If I had eight hours to chop down a tree I would spend six sharpening my axe. -Abraham Lincoln If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.- Albert Einstein Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist. -Plutarch "There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth. - Leo Tolstoy" By working hard, you get to play hard, guilt-free. -Jim Rohn When in doubt, ask. When not in doubt, ask. -Unknown The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wish bone. -William Boetcker The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are. -J.P. Morgan Duty is the sublimest word in the language. You can never do more than your duty. You should never wish to do less. -Robert E. Lee If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. -Alice Roosevelt Longworth "Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. - Oprah Winfrey" Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things. -Henry Ward Beecher Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes. -Oscar Wilde The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. -Antoine De Saint-Exupery Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person we become. -Jim Rohn Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed. -Channing Pollock If A=success, then the formula is A=X+Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut. -Albert Einstein Be noble-minded! Our own heart, andnot other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor. -Schiller Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore. -Shirley Hufstedler Either you reach a higher point today, or you exercise your strength in order to be able to climb higher tomorrow. -Nietzsche No matter what a man's past may have been, his future is spotless. -John R. Rice Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean. -Goethe Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards. -Soren F. Petersen It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. -Mark Twain No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted. -unknown What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it. -Charles F. Kettering If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes. -John Wooden If a man be self-controlled, truthful, wise, and resolute, is there aught that can stay out of reach of such a man? -The Panchatantra True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense. -Emanuel Swedenborg Through seeking and blundering we learn. -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe I myself must mix with action, lest I wither by despair. -Alfred, Lord Tennyson Help people become more motivated by guiding them to the source of their own power. -Paul G. Thomas There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. -Norman Vincent Peale The years teach much which the days never know. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits. -Unknown Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. -James Barrie The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal. -Menander of Athens (BC342-291) Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for tis better to be alone than in bad company. -G. Washington The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. -unknown Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it. -Danny Kaye "We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it." - Peter F Drucker The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort. -Colin Powell "They who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth." -Joubert "I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known. - Confucius" If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest. -Publilius Syrus (85BC-43BC) People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves. -Tryon Edwards All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than one lovely action. -James Russell Lowell The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today. -Les Brown There Are Three Kinds of People - Those Who Can Count and Those Who Can't - Unknown Only those who dare, truly live. -Ruth P. Freedman Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. -William Feather Self discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you don't talk back. -W.K. Hope There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. -Henry Ford If we do not do the work we were meant to do, it will forever remain undone. -Anna Lindsay The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains. -Goethe The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the mood's of people, and his tact in dealing with them. -Holland Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. -Harriet Braiker Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea. -Jim Rohn The best way to succeed in this world is to act on the advice you give to others. - Unknown Trouble, like the hill ahead, straightens out when you advance upon it. -Marcelene Cox If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. -Buddhist Proverb The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. -Thomas Carlyle Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do. -Les Brown The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. -T Rubin The fool has to do at last what the wise did at first. -Italian Proverb Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. -Edgar Allan Poe Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past. -Theodore Roosevelt It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it. -Marcus Annaeus Seneca (BC3-65AD) If a little labor, little are our gains. Man's fortunes are according to his pains. -Robert Herrick The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness is a command to deliver mental resources. -NV Peale Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -Roger Babson A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result. -Gisela Richter Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it. -Robert H. Schuller A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it. -Herodotus Use failures as stepping-stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement. -Unknown There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people. -Gilbert K. Chesterton "Patience and time do more than strength or passion." -Jean de la Fontaine He who guards his lips guards his life, but he who speaks rashly will come to ruin. -Japanese proverb Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take. -Josh Billings "Better bend than break." -Scottish proverb The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -Josh Billings "You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again. - Benjamin Franklin" Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid. -Dorothea Brande In order to become successful, you must only promise what you can deliver and deliver more than what you've promised. -Beau K. Ly Many people who have gold in the house are looking for copper outside. -Russian Proverb The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives. -Anthony Robbins Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. -Abraham Heschel "What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better. - Wendell Phillips" "Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it. - Jim Rohn" Never ask a favor of someone till they have had their dinner. -Unknown Rather see the wonders of the world abroad, than, living dully sluggardized at home, wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness. -Shakespeare Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great. - Mark Twain A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her. -H Rowland "Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it." -Baltasar Gracian The greatest problem you have is your greatest opportunity. -Michael Wickett Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter. -B.C. Forbes Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work. -Mark Twain A house without books is like a room without windows. -Horace Mann With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation. -David Lloyd George Fun can be the dessert of our lives but never its main course. -Harold Kushner In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. -Albert Einstein I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense. -H. Kushner "Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. - Christopher Morley" A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent. -Charles James Fox (1749-1806) If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it. -Unknown A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence. -Chinese Proverb "It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going. - Brian Tracy" "Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck." - Dalai Lama "A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm. - Charles M. Schwab" What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you. - Seneca Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, "Certainly I can!" - and get busy and find out how to do it. -Theodore Roosevelt If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake. -Eli Siegel Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that ensures the successful outcome of our venture. -William James You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought. -Marjorie Holmes The one thing we learn from experience is that we don't learn from experience. -George Bernard Shaw If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen. -Joe Dimaggio We have two ears, but only one mouth, so that we may listen more and talk less. -Zeno (ca. 3BC) The two most important days in your life are the day you are born...and the day you find out why. -Mark Twain Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown. -George Shinn The strongest of all warriors are these two -- time and patience. -Leo Tolstoy Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something. -E.L. Simpson "If you can't, you must. If you must, you can. -Anthony Robbins" A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men. -Thomas Carlyle We are hoarding potentials so great that they are just about unimaginable. -Jack Schwartz Wise men talk because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something. -Plato Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. -Abraham Lincoln There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. -Don Herold "To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success. - Joseph de Maistre" If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. -Thoreau Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away & have his shoes. -? Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time. -Josh Billings Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good. -Marquis De Vauvenargues Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement. -Wilfred A. Peterson The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune. -William Penn (1644-1718) Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. -Margaret Lee Runbeck In achieving success, backbone is more important than wishbone. -Frank Tyger Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -Will Rogers The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first. -Ginger Rogers He that is discontented in one place will seldom be content in another. -Aesop In order to succeed you must fail so you know what to do better the next time. -Anthony J. D'Angelo It is essential to our well-being & to our lives that we play & enjoy life. Every day do something that makes your heart sing. -W Marcia If you lean in the direction of success, you will make progress even when you fall. -Grant Bright People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents. -Carnegie There is no top. There are always further heights to reach. -Jascha Heifetz Each of us needs time for mental self-renewal - Whitt N. Schultz Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them. -Chaim Weizmann If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito. -Anita Roddick Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. -Plato Choosing to live an extraordinary life is simple. This does not, however, mean that it's easy. -Robert White Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't. -R. Buckminster Fuller "Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance. - Albert Einstein" When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one to a fellow-creature. -Sydney Smith If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been. - Robert H. Schuller "We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within. - Earl Nightingale" Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean. -Confucius "Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." - Seneca I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. -Chesterton "I can't do it never accomplished anything; "I will try" has performed miracles. -George P. Burnham The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past. -Andre Maurois The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. -Frank Lloyd Wright It's better to recall something you wish you'd said, than something you wish you hadn't. -Frank A. Clark Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen. -Phillip Adams "He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much. - Elbert Hubbard" I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me. -W. Maugham How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success? -E Hubbard "The world is what we think it is. If we can change our thoughts, we can change the world." -Tomlinson Successful people are simply those with success habits. -Brian Tracy With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. -Thomas Foxwell Buxton Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving. -Florence Scovel Shinn (1876-1953) People can refute your facts, but never your feelings. -Sharon Anthony Bower "Not to be occupied and not to exist amount to the same thing." -Voltaire (especially on Saturday) People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do. -Edgar Watson Howe Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds. -Goethe Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering. -Charles Dickens Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical. -Les Brown The broadest assertions often come from the narrowest minds. -L.J. Muir I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. -Charles F. Lummis It is astonishing how short a time it takes for very wonderful things to happen. -Frances Hodgson Burnett He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. -Michel de Montaigne Whatever you can do, or believe you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. -Goethe We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny. -Catherine Booth I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. -George Burns "There is only one success--to be able to spend your own life in your own way." -Christopher Morley A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop. -R Hughes God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas. -Beecher Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life. -Arthur Rubenstein We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic. -Susan Jeffers Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. -Satchel Paige People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well. -Joe Gibbs Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution. -Stanley Arnold As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself. -Leonardo Da Vinci Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. -Henry Ward Beecher No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. -La Rochefoucauld - ! Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. -Philo Talent is always conscious of its own abundance and does not object to sharing. -Alexander Solyhenitsyn Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. -John Barrymore "We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. - John Dryden" A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame & a little less than his share of the credit. -Maxwell "No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. - Charles Dickens" What I do, I do very well, and what I don't do well, I don't do at all. -Unknown You always win by not saying the things you don't need to say. -Chinese Proverb You cannot dream yourself into a character. You must hammer and forge yourself one. -Froude I realized that with hard work, the world was your oyster. You could do anything you wanted to do. I learned that at a young age. -C Evert How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. -William Shakespeare He who finds pleasure in vice and pain in virtue, is still a novice in both. -Chinese Proverb How many joys are crushed under foot because people look up at the sky and disregard what is at their feet? -Catharina Goethe If a little labor, little are our gains. Man's fortunes are according to his pains. -Robert Herrick There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life. -Arthur Schopenhauer Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Voltaire Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can. -Lowell Thomas Tough times never last, but tough people do. -Dr. Robert Schuller There are people who want to be everywhere at once, and they get nowhere. -Carl Sandburg Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings. -Arthur Rubinstein Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. -Arnold Bennett Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could only do a little. -Edmund Burke I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair. -Lord Alfred Tennyson Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us. -Thomas L. Holdcroft You may not accomplish every goal you set (no one does) but what really matters is having goals & going after them wholeheartedly. -Les Brown The secret to success is to do common things uncommonly well. -John D. Rockefeller Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. -Voltaire Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable. -Coco Chanel Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. -Thomas Jefferson We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all. -Jean de La Bruyere "A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything. -L Sterne" Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people. -Earl Nightingale It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late. -Marilyn Kennedy It is never too late to be what you might have been. -George Eliot Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due. -Dean William R. Inge "Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise." - Lou Holtz What have you done today to help you reach your lifelong goals? -Brian Tracy "When prosperity comes, do not use all of it. - Confucius" "Progress has little to do with speed, but much to do with direction." - unknown "A day without laughter is a day wasted." -Charlie Chaplin