Motivational Quotes: Return To Top

Motivational Quotes
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Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up.

It knows that it must run faster than the fastest lion
or it will be killed.
Every morning a lion wakes up.
It knows that it must outrun the slowest gazelle
or it will starve to death.
It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle.
When the sun comes up, you better start running.
-- African Proverb --
We're fascinated by speed and frustrated by slow

-- Dan Kennedy --
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today

than he was yesterday
-- Abraham Lincoln --
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken --
In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy.
-- Karl Reiland --
You gotta have goals!

-- Zig Ziglar --
Life takes on meaning when you become motivated,

set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.
-- Les Brown --
You'll never leave where you are,

until you decide where you�d rather be.
-- Robert Brockman --
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal.

My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
-- Louis Pasteur --
Effective people are not problem-minded;

they're opportunity-minded.
They feed opportunities and starve problems.
-- Dr. Stephen Covey --
Having lost sight of our objectives, we redoubled our efforts.

-- Pogo --
We are what we repeatedly do.

Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle --
Stop selling. Start helping.

-- Zig Ziglar --
Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand

and leading him down the path of reason.
-- Pythagoras --
You can't get different results by doing things the same way.
-- Richard A. Moran --
Telling ain�t teaching

and listening ain�t learning.
-- Bob Barkley --
The fact that an opinion has been widely held

is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
-- Bertrand Russell --
Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances.

Strong men believe in cause and effect.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson --
What isn't tried . . . won't work.

-- Claude McDonald --
You can get everything you want in life,

if you just help enough other people get what they want.
-- Zig Ziglar --
Make people feel like winners.

-- Michael LeBoeuf --
Attitude is everything.
-- Phillip Crosby --
Learning is not attained by chance.

It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
-- Abigail Adams --
The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really
two men -- the man he is and the man he wants to be.
-- William Feather --
The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Keep this constantly in mind.
Weak desire brings weak results,
just as a small amount of fire
makes a small amount of heat.
-- Napoleon Hill --
Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

-- Jim Rohn --
Kites rise highest against the wind,

not with it.
-- Winston Churchill --
The mind is not a vessel to be filled,

but a fire to be lighted.
-- Plutarch --
It takes great courage to faithfully follow

what we know is true.
-- Sara E Anderson --
Open your mind and learn to see.

-- Robert Hege --
In the factory we make cosmetics; in the drugstore we sell hope.

-- Charles Revson --
Authentic marketing is not the art of selling what you make but knowing what to make.
-- Philip Kotler --
In marketing I've seen only one strategy that can't miss -- and that is to market to your best
customers first, your best prospects second and the rest of the world last.
-- John Romero --
If the circus is coming to town and you paint a sign saying

'Circus Coming to the Fairground Saturday,' that's advertising.
If you put the sign on the back of an elephant

and walk it into town, that's promotion.
If the elephant walks through the mayor's flower bed,

that's publicity.
And if you get the mayor to laugh about it,

that's public relations.
If the town's citizens go the circus,
you show them the many entertainment booths,
explain how much fun they'll have spending money at the booths,
answer their questions and ultimately,
they spend a lot of money at the circus,
that's sales.
-- Unknown --
I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing.
The first, of course, is ransom notes.
-- Philip Dusenberry --
What helps people, helps business.

-- Leo Burnett --
Every day do something that will

inch you closer to a better tomorrow.
-- Doug Firebaugh --
Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you.

Most of all other people can't stop you.
Only you can stop you.
-- Jeffrey Gitomer --
Human beings have the remarkable ability

to turn nothing into something.
They can turn weeds into gardens
and pennies into fortunes.
-- Jim Rohn --
If you have great ideas and no confidence to share them,

you will not get credit for having them.
-- Patricia Fripp --
Always bear in mind

that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any other one thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln --
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity.

The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
-- Winston Churchill --
Ninety percent of the success of any product or service

is its promotion and marketing.
-- Mark Victor Hansen --
Our plans miscarry if they have no aim.

When a man does not know what harbor he is making for,
no wind is the right wind.
-- Seneca --
If you procrastinate when faced with

a big difficult problem,
break the problem into parts,
and handle one part at a time.
-- Robert Collier --
Above all be of single aim;

have a legitimate and useful purpose,
and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
-- James Allen --
All lasting wealth comes from

enriching others in some way.
-- Brian Tracy --
The path to success is to take

massive, determined action.
-- Anthony Robbins --
Out of clutter, find Simplicity.

From discord, find Harmony.
In the middle of difficulty lies Opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein --
Opportunity is infinite;
once you know that, opportunity is omni-existent.
When a goal matters enough to a person,

that person will find a way to
accomplish what at first seemed impossible.
-- Nido Qubein --
Every great leap forward in your life

comes after you have made
a clear decision of some kind.
-- Brian Tracy --
If someone is going down the wrong road,

he doesn't need motivation to speed him up,
he needs education to turn him around.
-- Jim Rohn --
Ignore people who tell you 'you can't'

or try to discourage you.
Successful people are always looking for

opportunities to help others.
Unsuccessful people are always asking,
'What's in it for me?'
-- Brian Tracy --
You don't have to be great to get started,

but you have to get started to be great.
-- Les Brown --
The difference between failure and success

is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
-- Edward Simmons --
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson --
Free enterprise means

that the more enterprising you are, the freer you are.
You can accomplish virtually anything

if you want it badly enough
and if you are willing to work
long enough and hard enough.
-- Brian Tracy --
Goals are a preview of future events

and experiences in your life.
The difference between a successful person and others

is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge,
but rather a lack of will.
-- Vincent T. Lombardi --
It's the constant and determined effort

that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.
-- Claude M. Bristol --
Leadership is practiced not so much in words

as in attitude and in actions.
-- Harold S. Geneen --
Make education a continuing, never-ending process.

-- Nido Qubein --
No advertising page is big enough to sell two ideas.
-- John Henry Patterson --
Take action every day - some small dose at a time.

Something must die in order to grow

- your old habits, your old self image,
your old thinking, your old life -
must be weeded out for the seeds of success to grow.
Ask questions to gain, and maintain control of the conversation.

You can't direct anyone toward a purchase that's good for them until you get them to tell you what
they want.
-- Tom Hopkins --
Don't celebrate closing a sale, celebrate opening a relationship.

Internalize the Golden Rule of sales that says,

'All things being equal, people will do business with, and refer business to, those people they
know, like and trust.'
-- Bob Burg --
Income seldom exceeds personal development.

-- Jim Rohn --
One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes,

another for 30 days,
but it is the man who has it for 30 years
who makes a success of his life.
-- Edward B. Butler --
People begin to become successful

the minute they decide to be.
-- Harvey Mackay --
A mind once expanded by a new idea,

Never returns to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes --
99% of the failures come from people

who have the habit of making excuses.
-- George Washington Carver --
It is not your customer's job to remember you.

It is your obligation and responsibility
to make sure they don't have the chance to forget you.
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day.

Teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime.
-- Anonymous --
Your physical, mental and intellectual resources

-- continually growing and changing --
are your personal capital.
-- Brian Tracy --
You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and
encouraging your greatest asset.
-- Tom Hopkins --
Improve your business, your life, your relationships, your finances and your health. When you do
the whole world improves.
The most important key to achieving great success

is to decide upon your goal
and launch, get started, take action, move.
-- Brian Tracy --
You do what you have to do, to do what you want to do.

Every day do something that will inch you closer

to a better tomorrow.
There is no reward without work being expended.

-- George R. Means --
You'll never make it to the next level by holding on to the first.

-- Rod St.Hilaire --
You cannot succeed by yourself.

It's hard to find a rich hermit.
-- Jim Rohn --
Failing to plan means planning to fail.

What are your goals?
-- Brian Tracy --
No one daydreams of being a failure
but for those who only dream of success,
and never wake up to do anything about it,
failure quickly becomes their reality.
-- Michael Lopez --
The secret of success is hidden in your daily routine.

-- Jody Victor --
The obscure we eventually see.

The completely obvious, it seems, takes much longer.
-- Edward R. Murrow --
Good things only happen when planned.

Bad things happen on their own.
-- Phillip Crosby --
Action stems from having dreams

that are bigger than your fears.
-- Terry Litwiller --
Don't tell me how good you are, show me!

-- Author Unknown --
Winners choose the highest summits

and see the sun prior to cresting them.
There are no limits for those with expectant attitudes.
-- Brian G. Jett --
To satisfy our customers' needs,

we'll give them what they want,
Not what we want to give them.
-- Steve James --
There are those who SEE an opportunity

And then there are those who SEIZE an opportunity
-- Joanie Warren --
Unless a person has trained himself for his chance,

the chance will only make him ridiculous.
A great occasion is worth to man
exactly what his preparation
enables him to make of it.
-- J.B. Matthews --
The Past is like a river flowing out of sight,

The Future is an ocean filled with opportunity and delight.
-- Anna Hoxie --
The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight
But they while their companions slept
Were toiling upwards in the night.
-- Longfellow --
Don't get discouraged;

It's usually the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.
I've learned one thing during my time on the soccer fields:

It's amazing how fast you can run
And the things you can do when you have a goal in mind.
It applies to the rest of my life, too.
-- Jeremy Monnin --
An individual who is active in higher learning,

Soon becomes an individual active in higher earning.
-- Michael Gulliver --
No person was ever honored for what he received.

Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
Never give up!

Failure and rejection are only the 1st steps to succeeding.
Forget about the business outlook,

Be on the outlook for business
-- Paul J. Meyer --
The only competition you will ever have

is the competition between your
disciplined and undisciplined mind.
-- James A. Ray --
The price of your merchandise is nothing more

than a temporary estimate of what the customer
is willing to spend
-- Bob Nelson --
You should never try to teach a pig to sing.

It only annoys the pig
and you get covered with mud in the attempt.

-- Anonymous --
Motivational Quotes And Quotations
You are younger today than you will ever be again. Make use of it for the sake of
tomorrow.
Norman Cousins, editor
If you feel good, you will probably do your best even if your best does not justify you
feeling good!
John Watson
I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and
enthusiasm helps push an educational message.
Steve Irwin
Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This
power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs.
Dr. Maxwell Maltz, Author
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.
Mark Twain
When we TAKE ACTION on what we learn, GREAT things happen.
Mike Litman
The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.
William Wordsworth 1770-1850, Poet
I can accept failure -- everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
Michael Jordan, basketball player
Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities
or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk and
to act.
Dr. Maxwell Maltz

My greatest point is my persistence. I nevër give up in a match. However down I am, I
fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-
called irretrievable defeats into victories.
Björn Borg, Swedish Tennis Player
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, 'who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,

talented, fabulous?'
Actually who are you NOT to be?
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightening about shrinking

so that others won't feel unsure around you.
As we let our own light shine, we unconciously

give others permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,

our presence automatically liberates others.
Nelson Mandela
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
Winston Churchill
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our world; it seems to
magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow
absent before we changed.
Earl Nightingale
Resistance and obstacles crumble under the relentless pressure of constant,

determined effort.
Tracy Brinkmann
What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do.

Joe Namath
Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in
yourself.
Robert Collier
It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world (that) the humblest man has
not the faculties to surmount.
Henry David Thoreau, philosopher
The cause of the confusion prevailing in your mind that weakens your thoughts is the
false belief that there is a power or powers outside you greater than the power within
you.
The Message of a Master by John McDonald
"A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline."
Harvey Mackay
I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone , Arizona . It

says: "Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest." I think that is the greatest
epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has
before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do.
Harry Truman, 33rd US president
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to

pursue them.
Walt Disney
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work
worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US president

The only one who can tell you 'you can't' is you. And you don't have to listen.
Nike Advertisement
PF - Persistent Focus - make a choice, make it work,

never give up
Joe Clayton
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good

therefore that I can do, or any kindness or ablities that I
can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me
not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way
again.
William Penn
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Carrie Fisher
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Peter Drucker, management consultant
I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up

the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to
rain, it will.
Clint Eastwood, Actor and Director
Remember, if you don't have a goal you're not playing football, you're just kicking a
ball around the park.
Geoff Thompson
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Confucius (Chinese Philosopher) 551-479 B.C.
It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all
obstacles.
Claude M. Bristol 1891-1951, Author of The Magic of Believing
I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is
pounding, saying, Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?
General George S. Patton
Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult,
is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
Brian Tracy
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you

did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
Coach John Wooden
If one advances confidenly in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to lead a life
which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to
develop them into skills, and uses those skills to accomplish his goals.
Larry Bird, basketball player
By thought, the thing you want is brought to you; by action you receive it.
Wallace D. Wattles
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
Robin Williams, American Actor and Comedian
If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist
When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured

and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmness, and
accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil, while
fretting and fuming only serves to increase your own torments.
Thomas Jefferson, 3rd U.S. President
A wrong action may not bring its reaction at once, even

as fresh milk turns not sour at once: like a smouldering
fire concealed under ashes it consumes the wrongdoer, the fool.
The Buddha
One day or another every athlete feels like taking it easy. He stops trying to
exceed his limits, and thinks he can keep winning because of his lucky star,
or the bad luck of his opponents. You must overcome this negative instinct,
which affects all of us, and which is the only difference between the person
who wins a race, and those who lose. This is the battle you have to fight
every day of your life.
Jesse Owens
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the
seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge
of. You don't have charge of the constellations, but you do have charge of whether
you read, develop new skills, and take new classes.
Jim Rohn
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were

going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding
you can muster, and do with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the
same again.
Og Mandino, Author
When you take a risk and step out of the norm, you run the risk and sometimes you
fail. But you only fail if you give up.
J Peterman
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you
will not meet again in this life.
Jean Paul Richter, 1763-1825, German Novelist
Ageing footballers never lose their commitment; they just lose their pace
Gary Lineker, England footballer
Anticipate meeting obstacles, but also anticipate overcoming them
Emmanuel Segui
if you get moving, you get motivated. Even random movement will motivate you.
Paul Myers
For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in
people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a
child run his or her fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge
that
you'll never walk alone.
Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993) British Actress
The journey may be hard, exhausting, and frustrating ... but you can accomplish
practically anything if you persevere.
Paul Lawrence Screen Writer
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Robert Browning
It is only our deeds that reveal who we are.
Carl Jung, psychiatrist
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have
encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against
overwhelming odds.
Orison Swett Marden
When we are dealing with people's dreams-their visions, we are in the realm of the
sacred. We are involved with forces and energies larger than our own. We invoke the
Great Creator when we invoke our own creativity, and that creative force has the
power to alter lives, fulfill destinies, and answer our dreams."
Julia Cameron, author
It only takes one person to change your life - you.
Ruth Casey
People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
Bob Hope, 1903-2003, British-American Entertainer
In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the
gratefulness that makes us happy.
Albert Clarke, photographer
That which we persist in doing becomes easy to do; not that the nature of the thing has
changed, but that our power to do has increased.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation
Jim Rohn
I am not going to ease up, let up, shut up or give up until I'm taken up. As a matter of
fact I'm just getting warmed up.
Zig Ziglar after 50 years as a motivational speaker .
It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all
obstacles.
Claude M. Bristol, Author
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve
them.
Aristotle
The best way to get started is to stop talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that
intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
Eric Hoffer, Author and Philosopher
I studied the lives of great men and women, and I found that the men and women who
got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had
of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.
Harry S. Truman 1884-1972, Thirty-Third U.S. President
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient
attention than to any other talent.
Isaac Newton, mathematician, physicist
The key to having everything we want lies in expanding our definition of what's
possible and focusing on what we want. That's it! Once we believe in the possibility
of anything and focus in on exactly what we want to have, exactly what we want to
do, then our minds can take us there.
Mark Victor Hansen
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have
thrown at him.
David Brinkley
The secret of joy is contained in one word -- excellence. To know how to do

something well is to enjoy it.
Pearl S. Buck, author
The key to happiness is having dreams; the key to success is making them come true.
James Allen
Genius is initiative on fire.
Holbrook Jackson, writer and publisher
A better life will come your way the second you get up and start walking toward it.
Jason Gracia
It is good to create good plans and to set goals. Working on them and getting results is
much better.
John Delavera
The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking
one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the
second is disastrous.
Margaret Fontey, Author
Greatness is not where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail
sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it but sail we must, and not drift, nor
lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendall Holmes
The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and
defeats.
Ayn Rand, author, philosopher
Goals. There's no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There's no
telling what you can do when you believe in them. And there's no telling what will
happen when you act upon them.
Jim Rohn
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.
Mother Teresa
Science and psychology have isolated the one prime cause for success or failure in
life. It is the hidden self-image you have of yourself.
Bob Proctor, author and speaker
Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.
Turkish Proverb
When a fantasy turns you on, your obligated to God and nature to start doing it--right
away.
Stewart Brand
Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you
can make it so.
Belva Davis
Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you
less than you are.
Malcolm Forbes 1919-1990, Author and Publisher
Sometimes saying no to one task helps you have the energy you need for another task
you really want to do!
Christopher Westra
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Albert Einstein, scientist
Feed your big dream with tiny daily successes.
John Delavera
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know
it has to get down to work.
Pearl S. Buck, American Author
When it comes to Good Ideas, there's no such thing as possible or impossible… there's
just doing and not doing. And hey-- If you try and fail, well at least you tried, right?
Wrong! If at first you fail, keep at it till you succeed!
Mike Litman
Our aspirations are our possibilities.
Robert Browning, poet
If you believe in unlimited quality and act in all your business dealings with total
integrity, the rest will take care of itself.
Frank Perdue, Founder of Perdue Chicken
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Albert Schweitzer, doctor and missionary
If you're not succeeding yet, take heart. As long as you keep trying, with persistence
and determination, there will be a way for you to succeed.
David Vallieres
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as
though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the
place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811-1896, Novelist
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn
about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can
tell
you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be
sharing the adventure with them.
Denis Waitley, author and speaker
Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.
You may be surprised at how easily this happens. Your doubts are not as powerful as
your desires, unless you make them so.
Marcia Wieder Speaker and Author
At first dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable.

Christopher Reeve (1952-2004) American Actor
No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well,
it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.
Channing Pollock Actor, Writer and Composer
Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
Most people come and go without leaving their footprints on the Earth. Most die and
never really live, afraid of taking chances, afraid of failing and afraid of succeeding
and all the scrutiny that it would bring.
Mike Brescia
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and
thinking that having problems is a problem.
Theodore Rubin, playwright
I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or
persons into a win-win situation.
Bo Bennett
Yes - Action is the key! Cuz - when we take action we get a result - it might not
always be the result we want but nevertheless it's a result - something we can learn
from.
David Ryan
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Lao Tzu
Your past doesn't determine your future. We can all learn from our mistakes… the
only inexcusable mistake is packing it in and giving up.
Mike Litman
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise - begin!
Horace, poet, satirist
Some people expect success and that's exactly what they get. Sadly, most people
expect to fail and, likewise, that's exactly what they get. I'm interested in working with
people who EXPECT success.
Ryan Deiss, Internet Entrepreneur
"Thinking is action..... but there is nothing on this earth as powerful as consistent,

bold, physical action."
Robert Ringer
We gain internal freedom through external actions.
Ram Dass
Do not wait; the time will never be just right.
Napoleon Hill, author
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
Confucius, Philosopher
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous andthe storm terrible, but they have
never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
Vincent Van Gogh
Doing easily what others find is difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent
is genius.
Henri Frederic Amiel, writer
Where many people go wrong in trying to reach their goals is in constantly looking
for the big hit, the home run, the magic answer that suddenly transforms their dreams
into reality. The problem is that the big hit never comes without a great deal of little
hits first. Success in most things comes not from some gigantic stroke of fate, but
from simple, incremental progress.
Andrew Wood
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted .
Aldous Huxley, writer
You need just the right amount of ambition . . . If you have too little ambition, you
don’t push or work hard. If you have too much ambition, you put yourself ahead of
others, elbow them out of your way.
Andy Grove, Intel chairman and co-founder
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Napoleon Hill, 1883-1970, Author of "Think and Grow Rich"
Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
Lee Iacocca
I realized early on - no one's going to pay me for doing nothing.
Michelle Dewberry, Winner of the Apprentice UK 2006
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa, 1910-1997, Missionary
I praise loudly; I blame softly.
Catherine the Second (1729-1796) Russian Empress
God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.
Anna Pavlova, ballerina
If I’m selecting a group, the first thing I look for is a record of achievement . . . If
(candidates achieve) in small things, there’s a very good chance they’ll perform well
in big things.
Edmund Hillary, explorer

You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is
the difference.
Chris Evert, tennis champion
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Samuel Ullman 1840-1924, Educator, Writer and Poet
My life as a writer consists of 1/8 talent and 7/8 discipline .
John Irving, writer
Start small; Think possibilities; Reach beyond your known abilities; Invest all you
have in your dream; Visualize miracles; Expect to experience success.
Rev. Robert H Schuller
Man can live for about forty days without food, and about three days without water,
about eight minutes without air ... but only for one second without hope.
Hal Lindsey
Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by
regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can
indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
William James, psychologist and philosopher
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little
matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
Colin Powell. American Military leader and Statesman.
Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it -
likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong
faith is strengthened by them.
Viktor E. Frankl 1905-1997 Holocaust Survivor
The key that unlocks energy is desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If
we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.
Earl Nightingale, 1921-1989, Radio Announcer and Author
Whatever you choose to believe, will be the concept that runs your mind.
Joe Vitale, author
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become
what they are capable of becoming.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
When we accept tough jobs as a challenge and wade into them with joy and
enthusiasm, miracles can happen.
Arland Gilbert,Writer
Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.
Les Brown, speaker and author
Those who are blessed with the most talent don’t necessarily outperform everyone
else. It’s the people with follow-through who excel.
Mary Kay Ash, May Kay Cosmetics founder
A mind that's most in tune with objective reality enjoys the highest level of mental
health. Self-delusion is the disease of the middle-class thinker. The first step in the
journey towards world-class results is giving up any addiction to kidding yourself
about how good you are in any area of your life. Kid the world, if you so desire, but
never kid yourself.
Steve Siebold, author, 177 Mental Toughness Secrets of the World Class
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, never give up then,
for that is just the time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Writer and Abolitionist
Old soldiers will tell you to sleep whenever you can...because you never know when
you'll be able to do it again.
Roy Miller
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a
new ending.
Maria Robinson
You are the only problem you will ever have and you are the only solution.
Bob Proctor
Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy
of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered
fire.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in
being superior to your previous self.
Hindu proverb
Make each day useful and cheerful and prove that you know the worth of time by
employing it well. Then youth will be happy, old age without regret and life a
beautiful success.
Louisa May Alcott, Author
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any
kindness or ablities that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me
not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in
me.
Jim Valvano
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities.

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Gloria Steinem, Author and Journalist

A great deal of my work is in honesty and truth - these are the cornerstones of
motivation. It's much more than getting excited and running out the door with a big
grin on your face. It's about letting the facts of life hit you and drive you toward a
better life.
Jason Gracia
The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention.
Duguet
Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die
David Rosam
Your muscles don't know what the date on your birth certificate is. They know only
whether or not they have been exercised recently.
Peter G. Hanson, medical doctor and author
The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner
qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should,
some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.
Charles Kettering, inventor
Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!
Goethe
There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind of what you
would like to be, and you keep and hold that picture there long enough, you will soon
become exactly as you have been thinking.
William James 1842-1910, Psychologist and Author
Do your work with your whole heart and you will succeed - there's so little
competition.
Elbert Hubbard, writer and editor
It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a
deep conviction, things begin to happen.
Claude M. Bristol 1891-1951, Author of The Magic of Believing
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read.
Mark Twain
If at first you don’t succeed, think how many people you’ve made happy.
H. Duane Black
My brain is the key that sets me free.
Harry Houdini, 1874-1926, Escapologist
By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could
not become a defect
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. German Playwright, Poet
I should never have made my success in life if I had not bestowed upon the least thing
I have ever undertaken the same attention and care that I have bestowed upon the
greatest.
Charles Dickens
If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember this whole thing was started by a
mouse.
Walt Disney 1901-1966, Artist and Film Producer
The lesson is forcibly taught by these observations that our life might be much easier
and simpler than we make it; that the world might be a happier place than it is; that
there is no need of struggles, convulsions, and despairs, of the wringing of the hands
and the gnashing of the teeth; that we mis-create our own evils. We interfere with the
optimism of nature; for whenever we get this vantage-ground of the past, or of a wiser
mind in the present, we are able to discern that we are begirt with laws which execute
themselves. The face of external nature teaches the same lesson. Nature will not have
us fret and fume.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
Jennie Jerome Churchill, 1854-1921, Mother of Winston Churchill
Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself
Anthony Trollope.
We come into this world crying while all around us are smiling. May we so live that
we go out of this world smiling while everybody
around us is weeping.
Persian proverb
"But try," you urge, "the trying shall suffice; The aim, if reached or not, makes great
the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!"
Robert Browning (1812 - 1889) English Poet
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to

create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
Bette Davis (1908 - 1989) American Actress
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot (1819 - 1880) English Novelist
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the Sun.' We might not
land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
Zora Neale Hurston (1903 - 1960) American Writer
There was no such thing as half-trying. Whether it was running a race or catching a
football, competing in school -- we were to try. And we were to try harder than
anyone else. We might not be the best, and none of us were, but we were to make the
effort to be the best.
Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968) American Politician
If you cannot understand that there is something in a man which responds to the
challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of
life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go. What we get
from this adventure is just sheer joy.
George Leigh Mallory (1886 - 1924) English Mountain Climber
Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best.
David McKay (1873 - 1970) American Religious Leader
Men can be stimulated to show off their good qualities to the leader who seems to
think they have good qualities.
John Richelsen
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of hard work, preparation, and learning
from failure.
General Colin Powell
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, author and essayist
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls

him.
Romain Gary (1914-1980) French Writer
Listening is a high art of loving. Ask yourself, 'When was the last time I really
listened to my child? My parent? My brother or sister?' When someone is ready to
share, three magic words amplify your connection, and they are: 'Tell me more.'
Rev. Mary Manin Morrissey
Many years ago hanging on the office wall was a caricature of a young man. His hair
was disheveled and his face portrayed the look of frustration and aggravation. The
words next to him summed up that look... "God put me on earth to accomplish a
certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind, I'll never die!!"
Ann Rusnak
Seek respect mainly from thyself, for it comes first from within.
Steven H. Coogler
If you worried about falling off the bike, you’d never get on.
Lance Armstrong, bicycle racer
Action and Persistence is your key to success,
Michael Nicholas
Do not think a man has done his full duty when he has performed the work assigned
him. A man will never rise if he does only this. Promotion comes from exceptional
work.
Andrew Carnegie, industrialist
Men give me credit for genius. All the genius I have lies in this: When I have a
subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night, it is before me. I explore it in all
its bearings. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then ... people are pleased to call
[the effort that I made] the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought."
Alexander Hamilton
Leap, and the net appears.
Julia Cameron
Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Sophia Loren (1934- ) Italian Actress
Courage is doing what your mind and body do not want to do
The Paras
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out
by accident.
Charles Lamb (1775-1834) British Essayist
It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only
empties today of its strength.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892, Preacher
If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you
don't have in life, you'll never have enough."
Oprah Winfrey
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing:
that is enough for one man's life.
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) American Poet
Eat well, stay fit, die anyway.
Ahmad
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
Ralph W. Sockman, minister
The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that
nothing else can bring.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish Dramatist and Poet
Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he should be, and he
will become what he could be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson. American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882
We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition
impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
Florence Scovel Shinn Artist, Teacher and Author

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he
can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
Henry Ford
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Walt Disney
All big things in this world are done by people who are naive and have an idea that is
obviously impossible.
Dr. Frank Richards (1875-1961) English Writer
I am dying with the help of too many physicians
Alexander the Great
Don't bother about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work,
perseverance and determination.
Sir Frederick Treves (1853-1923) English Surgeon
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back
and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
Elinor Smith, aviator
It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are
ready to change and others are not.
James Gordon Medical Doctor
The harder I work out and the better my diet is, the more my genetics improve.
Unknown
When nothing is sure, everything is possible.
Margaret Drabble (1939-) English Novelist
Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Plato, 427-347 B.C., Greek Philosopher
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said
on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never
happened.
Winston Churchill, British statesman
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy
each step along the way.
Wayne Dyer, American motivational Speaker and Author of self-help best selling
books. b.1940
Courage is being scared to death -- but saddling up anyway.
John Wayne
If you have made mistakes...there is always another chance for you...you may have a
fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling
down, but the staying down.
Mary Pickford (1893-1979) Canadian Actress
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or
woman is able to do that counts.
Booker T. Washington 1856-1915, Educator and Reformer
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to
try just one more time.
Thomas Edison
Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can
do is sign on as its accomplice.
Tom Watson. American Golfer. b.1949
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to "jump at the Sun." We might not
land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
Zora Neale Hurston (1903-1960) American Writer

When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy
and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.
Arland Gilbert
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish
small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer
A professional is a man who can do his best at a time when he doesn’t particularly
feel like it.
Alistair Cooke, broadcaster
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson. American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882
The world we are experiencing today is the result of our collective consciousness, and
if we want a new world, each of us must start taking responsibility for helping create
it.
Rosemary Fillmore Rhea, A New Heaven and New Earth
Every achiever that I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to
believe in me."
Dr. Robert Schuller Minister and Author
The one thing that matters is the effort.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example
is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots
spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it
makes them kind themselves.
Amelia Earhart
I've missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've
been trusted to take the game-winning shot...and missed. I've failed over and over and
over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan Professional Basketball Player
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies
to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
Thomas Edison 1847-1931, Inventor
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
Lyndon B. Johnson, 1908-1973, 36th President of the United States
To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you
are.
Muhammad Ali World Champion Boxer
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Pablo Picasso 1881-1973, Artist
You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on
and plow right ahead.
George Lucas
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood. Make big plans, aim
high in hope and work.
Daniel H. Burnham
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
William James, psychologist
Making plans to take action is not action. You must take action right nöw.
Andreas Ohrt
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you
think.
Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881, British Statesman and Prime Minister
We have worked at full speed since May. And that is I'm persuaded the root and
source and origin of all health and happiness, provided of course that one rides work
as a man rides a great horse, in a spirited and independent way; not a drudge, but a
man with spurs to his heels.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) English Writer (Writing in her journal about her life as a
publisher and writer.)
The best way to be inspired is to inspire. When you talk about a subject you love, with
animation and joy, and a deeply-felt excitement, your listener can't help but feel your
inspiration. And in the process, your own bowl will be replenished.
Martin Avis
A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of
his tools.
Spanish proverb
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, Twenty-Sixth U.S. President
Our real problem is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action
today to ensure our strength tomorrow.
Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Thomas Edison, inventor
Your present negative beliefs were formed by thought PLUS feelings. Generate
enough emotion, or deep feeling and your new thoughts and ideas will cancel them
out.
Dr. Maxwell Maltz
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Vince Lombardi, Football Coach
I had it in my heart. I believed in myself, and I had confidence. I knew how to do it,
had natural talent and I pursued it.
Muhammad Ali, boxer
A cynic is just an idealist who has been happy slapped by reality
Gregor Jack, character in TV Series 'Rebus'
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war
first and then seek to win.
Sun-Tzu, military strategist
If I believe, it is difficult to win. If I don't believe, it is impossible.
Wimbledon 2006 Finalist
Do not say to yourself, 'I am going to act this way tomorrow.' Just say to yourself - 'I
am going to imagine myself acting this way NOW - for 30 minutes - today.'
Dr. Maxwell Maltz
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
Anon
Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities
or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk and
to act.
Dr. Maxwell Maltz, Author of Psycho-CyberneticS
I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever-increasing

possibilities before life, and I see no limits set to it at all.
Herbert George Wells 1866-1946, Author

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent
actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do
consistently.
Anthony Robbins
All high achievers plan their work and work their plan, for they are keenly aware that
"luck" is most often being prepared to take advantage of a situation.
Unknown
This Creative Mechanism within you is impersonal. It will work automatically and
impersonally to achieve goals of success and happiness, or unhappiness and failure,
depending upon the goals which you yourself set for it. Present it with "success goals"
and it functions as a "Success Mechanism." Present it with negative goals, and it
operates just as impersonally, and just as faithfully as a "Failure Mechanism."
Dr. Maxwell Maltz
Every achiever that I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to
believe in me.
Dr. Robert Schuller, Minister and Author
Visualizing, creative mental picturing, is no more difficult than what you do when you
remember some scene out of the past, or worry about the future. Acting out new
action patterns is no more difficult than "deciding," then following through on tying
your shoes in a new and different manner each morning, instead of continuing to tie
them in your old "habitual way," without thought or decision.
Dr. Maxwell Maltz
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Leo Tolstoy, author
Of all the creatures of earth, only human beings can change their patterns. Man alone
is the architect of his destiny ... Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their
minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
William James
The "self image" is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self
image and you change the personality and the behavior.
Dr. Maxwell Maltz
I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better
for my having lived in it.
Abraham Lincoln, 16th US president
Our self-image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will
automatically change the other.
Dr. Maxwell Maltz
The self is not something that one finds. It is something that one creates.
Thomas Szasz (1920-) American Psychiatrist
True success is not necessarily about being the best at all cost. It's about DOING your
best at all times. If you do that long enough, who knows, you might just end up being
the best.
'Tope Popoola Preacher and Consultant
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire, and begin at once, whether you’re
ready or not, to put it into action.
Napoleon Hill, writer
NOW! Life is NOW! Your life is being defined by how you're feeling right NOW!
Identify what you want right NOW. Speak your appreciation NOW. Flow your
gratitude NOW. Extend your love NOW. Spend your time deliberately creating
positive energy flow NOW. And notice how your future becomes a series of
extraordinary NOW's
Eva Gregory
Take a deep breath, count to ten, and tackle each task one step at a time.
Linda Shalaway
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
Pearl S. Buck
If doubt is challenging you and you do not act, doubts will grow... Challenge the
doubts with action and you will grow. Doubt and action are incompatible.
John Kanary
Exercise feeds your self confidence giving tons of courage to live your dreams.
Vince Palko
People of character do the right thing, not because they think it will change the world
but because they refuse to be changed by the world.
Michael Josephson Radio Commentator
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
John Steinbeck
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged.
Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
Lucille Ball 1911-1989, Comic Actress
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek
opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
Brian Tracy
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus
If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you
that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.
Abraham Maslow
What changes your world is not wishing for change; what changes your world is
changing!
Jim Rohn
James Allen says 'We curse the effect and nourish the cause.' The guy puts sand in his
shoes and he can hardly walk and you ask why would you do that? Why would we
wish for it to change, hope for it to change, but all the while resisting change?"
Jim Rohn
If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s
plan. And guess what they might have planned for you? Not much.
Jim Rohn, motivational speaker
Plant, don't chant.
Jim Rohn
An individual's self-concept is the core of his personality. It affects every aspect of

human behavior: the ability to learn, the capacity to grow and change. A strong,
positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success in life.
Dr. Joyce Brothers Psychologist and Author
The past is not your potential for potential has no bounds. Choose to break free from
your self-imposed limits. Use your imagination to create a life of endless possibility.
Experience your magnificence first hand.
Frankie Picasso Life and Business Coach
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin Franklin, printer, statesman
I didn’t get to where I am by thinking about it or dreaming about it. I got there by
doing it.
Estee Lauder, entrepreneur
To reach (our goal), we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it.
But we must sail and not drift, not lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., physician

For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.
Larry Eisenberg
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up
their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
Sam Ewing
You can be as you choose to be. It's an act of discipline sometimes, but it can be
done.
Kevin Costner in The Bodyguard
He that can have patience can have what he will.
Benjamin Franklin, printer, statesman, inventor
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really
keep us alive.
Robert Schuller Minister and Author
You’ve got to say, ‘I think if I keep working at this and want it badly enough, I can
have it.
Lee Iacocca, automobile executive
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped
possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Dale Turner
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931) American Inventor
The old saying 'success breeds success' has something to it. Success fosters that
feeling of confidence that banishes negativity. blasts through procrastination and gets
you going the right way.
Anon
Nothing will work unless you do.
Maya Angelou
A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.
Bo Bennett, author
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Michael Jordan
The old saying 'success breeds success' has something to it. Success fosters that
feeling of confidence that banishes negativity. blasts through procrastination and gets
you going the right way.
Ted Ciuba
Never give up; just absolutely never give up.
Shane Warne when asked what legacy he would like to leave
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Beverly Sills (1929-) American Opera Singer
To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time.
Leonard Bernstein, conductor
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The non-
existent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
Nikos Kazantzakis
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
Napoleon Hill
Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.
William Shakespeare, playwright & poet

The good things we do are appreciated most by those who do them.
John Watson
What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available
only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and
is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Alexander Graham Bell
The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if
you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and
helpful to you. The world is what you are.
Thomas Dreier, Author
They say the chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be
broken. The chains you put around yourself now have enormous consequences as you
go through life.
Warren Buffett
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your
mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes
into your mind.
Zig Ziglar
Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds.
Grenville Kleiser 1863-1953, Writer
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as
by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington 1856-1915, Educator
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
Victor Hugo
Great minds have great purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and
subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Washington Irving 1783-1859, Author
I don't dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living.
Steven Spielberg
Bitterness and an unforgiving spirit can be likened to you taking poison and expecting
that someone else would die from the effect. Forgiveness is about setting the prisoner
in your heart free only to discover that all along, you had been the real prisoner.
'Tope Popoola Clergy and Author
You will become as great as your dominant aspiration. If you cherish a vision, a lofty
ideal in your heart, you will realize it.
James Allen
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be
chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
Abraham Maslow, Psychologist
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and
achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade
through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings
you closer to achieving your dreams.
Og Mandino 1923-1996, Author of The Greatest Salesman In The World
Reduce your plan to writing... The moment you complete this, you will have
definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
Napoleon Hill
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as

succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously and never permit it to fade. Your mind will
seek to develop this picture!
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993, Author of The Power of Positive Thinking
You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and
expect to win.
Zig Ziglar
The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if
you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and
helpful to you. The world is what you are.
Thomas Dreier Author
Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious.

Give yourself, if you wish to get others.
David Seabury
If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the

welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied.
George Westinghouse, inventor, manufacturer
You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they
doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where
do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what
do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay?
Jim Rohn Author, Speaker, Philosopher
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them
from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like
their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegie author and motivational speaker and trainer
Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.
Jim Rohn
There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. True nobility comes
from being superior to your previous self.
Hindu Proverb
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see
every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
Theodore White, author
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked
with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a
grand thing.
Agatha Christie
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour,
whatever he does, whoever he is.
C.S. Lewis
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have
thrown at him.
David Brinkley
Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has
nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-
knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
Ann Landers, born 1918
Unremarkable lives are marked by the fear of not looking capable when trying
something new.
Epictetus, philosopher
If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
Napoleon Hill
Goals. There's no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There's no
telling what you can do when you believe in them. There's no telling what will happen
when you act upon them.
Jim Rohn
Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.
Paul Goodman
Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your
bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
Earl Nightingale
Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only through gambling can
we take advantage of them.
Clarence Birdseye, entrepreneur
You may delay, but time will not.
All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney 1901-1966, Cartoon Artist and Producer
Benjamin Franklin
All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney 1901-1966, Cartoon Artist and Producer
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over
themselves . . . Self-discipline with all of them came first.”
Harry Truman, 33rd U.S. president
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the
small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that
we often cannot foresee.
Marian Wright Edelman Lobbyist on Behalf of Children
Believe: Nothing is accomplished without belief. Whether that is a belief in a higher

power, a belief in our own abilities or a trust and belief that we 'can'.
Martin Avis
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise
your sights and see possibilities - always see them, for they're always there
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993, Author of The Power of Positive Thinking
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
Coco Chanel, fashion designer
It's not the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.
Paul "Bear" Bryant
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction
overnight
Jim Rohn
I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On
26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot. . . and missed. And
I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why. . . I succeed.
Michael Jordan
Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more
secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.
Eddie Rickenbacker 1890-1973, Decorated Aviator and Businessman
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your
self-confidence.
Robert Frost, poet
The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose
horizons are limited by obvious realities. We need men and women who can dream of
things that never were...
John F. Kennedy 1917-1963, Former American President

The key to life is to become skillful enough to be able to do rewarding things.
Jim Rohn
I didn’t get to where I am by thinking about it or dreaming about it. I got there by
doing it.
Estee Lauder, entrepreneur
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The person who goes the furthest is generally the
one who is willing to do and dare.
Dale Carnegie, Author and Trainer
Both success and failure are largely the results of habit.
Ted Ciuba
Little minds . . . are subdued by misfortune . . . Great minds rise above them.
Washington Irving, writer
Press on. Nothing can take the place of persistence.
Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) 30th President of the United States
It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to
do anything well.
Joseph Ross
Action may not always be happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Sir Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) British prime minister and statesman
We are creatures of our thinking. We can talk ourselves into defeat or we can talk
ourselves into victory.
Gordon B. Hinckley
Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends
solely on what you think.
Dale Carnegie
To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time.
Leonard Bernstein, conductor
Truth is, when you TRY, good things happen. Especially, in your mind.When you are
being taught something and you immediately apply the information -- your mind
holds on to 90% more info than if you simply take mental notes and get a whopping
7% retention.
Vince Palko
It's a weight problem isn't it; you can't wait for lunch.
Al Murray
The most selfish way to be is to be unselfish.
Elmer Wheeler
There are always dangers about. Therefore you must always keep your defences
strong.
Margaret Thatcher
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and
most people are frightened of responsibility.
Sigmund Freud
It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.
Louis Pasteur, microbiologist
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your
body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding
results.
Anthony Robbins, Author, Speaker, Consultant

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are
directed toward ennobling man’s life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical
existence and leading the individual toward freedom.
Albert Einstein, physicist
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or
coming back with excuses.
Napoleon Hill
The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
Lee Iacocca, automobile executive
Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult,
is the high road to pride, self esteem, and personal satisfaction.
Brian Tracy
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Albert Einstein
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice
compassion.
Dalai Lama
Pity the man who inherits a million dollars and isn't a millionaire. Here's what would
be pitiful, if your income grew and you didn't.
Jim Rohn
Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities
become limitless.
Jamie Paolinetti
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso
Here's one problem with drifting: you can't drift your way to the top of the mountain.
Jim Rohn
Don’t be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It’s the horse
that finishes a neck ahead that wins the race.
Andrew Carnegie, industrialist
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go ahead of it and make trial
after trial until it comes.
Thomas Edison, inventor
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is
made known silently.
Agnes De Mille, 1905-1993, American Dancer and Choreographer
I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
Florence Nightingale, nurse
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or
measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you
more joy than any material possession could.
Barbara DeAngelis
Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.
Arnold Palmer, golfer
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain
and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life
controls you.
Anthony Robbins
If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and
copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.
Anthony Robbins
The two great words of antiquity are behold and beware. Behold the possibilities and
beware the temptations.
Jim Rohn
A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the
courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are
willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are
worthwhile, it can be done.
Vince Lombardi
Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in
yourself.
Robert Collier
Reminding readers and listeners that life is finite, Robert Ringer urges them to "Forget
about taking action next week; forget about taking action tomorrow; forget about
taking action in an hour. When you close this book, get up out of your chair and take
action now."
Robert Ringer
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on our own expectations for
ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Denis Waitley
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out if they've got a
second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that
comes out of you.
William James 1842-1910, Author
Fix the problem, not the blame.
Japanese proverb
The moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole
stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of
unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have
dreamt would have come his way.
William Murray, mountaineer
The secret of success in life is for a person to be ready for opportunity when it comes.
Benjamin Disraeli
It is by studying little things that we attain the great knowledge of having as little
misery and as much happiness as possible.
Samuel Johnson
Before You
Before you speak, listen.
Before you write, think.
Before you spend, earn.
Before you invest, investigate.
Before you criticize, wait.
Before you pray, forgive.
Before you quit, try.
Before you retire, save.
Before you die, give.
By William Arthur Ward
The Universe likes speed. Don´t delay. Don´t second

guess. Don´t doubt. When the opportunity is there, when
the impulse is there, when the intuitive nudge from within
is there, ACT. That´s your job. That´s all you have to do.
The Secret
The biggest piece of crap ever created and launched online makes more money than
an almost-perfect project that was never launched.
John Reese
If you have a metabolic system that requires a stricter diet and more activity to
maintain a healthy weight, accept that fact and do what it takes to achieve your goal.
Jon Herring
That's not politically correct, but it's good advice that I hope someone puts to use. Not
everyone can have the metabolism of a 17-year old boy. We must make the necessary
adjustments and deal with it.
Craig Ballantynie (His comment on the Jon Herring quote)
To insure good health: Eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate
cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.
William Londen
Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of
the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference.
Nolan Bushnell Founder of Atari
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them
from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like
their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegie author and motivational speaker and trainer
Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let
down your nets for a catch.
John Paul II, pope
High expectations are the key to everything.
Sam Walton, Wal-Mart founder
Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the
bloody thing yourself.
Sara Henderson
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments.
Jim Rohn
One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have wholehearted
enthusiasm.
Hannah Senesh (1921-1944) Hungarian-Jewish soldier
Stop complaining about what you're not getting, and start creating what you want.
Dr. Phil McGraw (1950 - ) American psychologist, TV host
Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have,
and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.
Robert Collier Writer and Publisher
Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will
not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it.Because the dream is
within you, no one can take it away.
Tom Clancy Top Selling Author
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more,
you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) Sixth President of the United States
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning
stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford: Founder, Ford Motor Company, prolific inventor.
If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure,

satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events
which conform to our positive expectations.
Shakti Gawain, Author of Creative Visualization
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
Chinese proverb
In our daily lives, we must see That it is not happiness that makes us grateful, But the
Albert Clarke
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
Confucius, Chinese Philosopher
Life and business is like the changing seasons. You cannot change the seasons, but
you can change yourself. Therein lies the opportunity to live an extraordinary life--the
opportunity to change yourself.
Jim Rohn
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Sun Tzu (c 500–320 bc) Chinese philosopher
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucius
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then
when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Christopher Reeve Actor, Speaker, Superman
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put
off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead
of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie: Pioneer in personal development.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the
other room and read a book.
Groucho Marx
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin Franklin, Inventor
Definition of happiness: The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
John F. Kennedy
To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals.
Benjamin Franklin
To get rich, never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of
wealth.
Richard Baker: American congressman
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Stan Smith, Tennis Champion
Everything is always impossible before it works. That's what entrepreneurs are all
about - doing what people have told them is impossible.
Hunt Greene, Venture Capitalist
Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.
Source Unknown
Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on
intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.
Sloan Wilson
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while
others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more
vigorous efforts than ever before. Herodotus, historian If I had to name a driving force
in my life, I'd name passion every time.
Anita Roddick, Body Shop Founder
Come on, you can do anything for 30 seconds.
High school wrestling coach in Pittsburgh, PA
The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write
him down a failure.
B. C. Forbes
Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will
automatically change the other.
Dr. Maxwell Maltz 1899-1975, Author
Energy and persistence alter all things.
Benjamin Franklin
We all know a variety of ways to make a living. What's even more fascinating is
figuring out ways to make a fortune.
Jim Rohn
Kids ought to have two bicycles, one to ride and one to rent.
Jim Rohn
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what
they are capable of being.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832, Poet and Novelist
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great
your talent, there is only one way to obtain it-work.
Jack Nicklaus, golfer
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for
ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Denis Waitley
If you conduct yourself as though you expect to be successful and happy, you will
seldom be disappointed.
Brian Tracy
The most important thing about winning is believing that you can win no matter who
you are playing.
Lawrence Dalaglio Rugby Union World Cup Winner

Live every day like it's your last cause one day you're gonna be right.
Ray Charles
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to
magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow
absent before we changed.
Earl Nightingale
It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion; the other, self-denial.
Thomas Haliburton, writer
Success happens whenever you decide to do something and you DO IT. Or whenever
you decide to NOT DO something and you DON’T do it. I know it sounds simple, but
99% of people can’t even do just that!
Kacper M. Postawski
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs -- jolted by every
pebble in the road.
Henry Ward Beecher
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as
by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington
Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the
errors.
Jim Rohn
Formula for success: Underpromise and overachieve.
Tom Peters, author
Mike, most people fail because they truly never try. They say they're serious about
succeeding, but their actions never back it up. You have to invest the time in growing
and make the investment in learning, if more people did both, more would live a
financially successful life.
Mike Litman's friend
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will
see how low it was.
Dag Hammarskjold 1905-1961, Swedish Statesman, Secretary-General of the United

Nations
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it
simply means to follow through.
F.W. Nichol
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful
people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
Brian Tracy
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
Yogi Berra February
"Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental
attitude."
W. Clement Stone
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Jonathan Winters
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Samuel Johnson
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify
it.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
There's no such thing as luck. You create your own luck. Successful Businessmen are
where they are because they do not give up. When they meet up with problems, they
solve it. Like Winston Churchill once said, "Never, Never, Never, Give Up.
Edmund Ng
A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere."
Joyce A. Myers
Failure is a few Errors in judgment repeated everyday. The man says, "Well I didn't
walk around the block today and it didn't kill me, so it must be okay." No, no, it is that
kind of error in judgment that after six years has him out of breath and panting as he
walks from his car to his office. You can't make those kinds of mistakes; it will end up
costing you.
Jim Rohn
Now, here is my definition of success: A few simple Disciplines practiced every day.
Do you see the distinction? A few disciplines... Here's a little phrase we've all heard,
"An apple a day keeps the doctor away." And my question to you is, "What if that's
true?" How simple and easy is that plan?
Jim Rohn
If all you have around you are negative nancy's trying to tempt you into skipping
workouts and eating crap, then it will be hard to succeed.
CB
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strength. When
you go through hardship and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Focus your messages on the results you expect, not on the methods for doing the job.
Marty Brounstein, communications trainer
Until you can apply the information that you’ve learned, then and only then will you
be rewarded.
Andy Fuehl: Founder, Wealth Builders of America.
Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If
people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
Sam Walton
Keeping in touch with childhood memories keeps us believing in life's simplest

pleasures like a rainy afternoon, a swing set, and a giant puddle to play in.
Chrissy Ogden
Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal.
Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to
your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.
Mario Andretti Auto Racer
The spirit, the will to win and the will to excel are the things that endure. These
qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
Vince Lombardi, football coach
gratefulness
that makes us happy.
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
Colin L. Powell (1937 - ) U.S. Army general, former U.S. Secretary of State
If you really want something, and if you work hard, take advantage of the
opportunities, and never give up, you will somehow find a way.
Dr. Jane Goodall (1934 - ) English primatologist, quoting her mother's advice
Miracles can be made, but only by sweating.
Giovanni Agnelli, auto executive
In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.
Chris Evert, Tennis Champion
The best way to let others know what you’re going to do is to actually do it.
Robert Ringer
You are not judged by your intentions, you are judged by your actions.
Willard Barth
Action may not always be happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Sir Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) British prime minister and statesman
You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can
every day.
Marian Wright Edelman: Activist for children's rights.
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face
reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
Douglas Everett, American Hockey Player
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
Peter Marshall
Give to the world the best you have, and the best will come back to you.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855-1919, Poet and Journalist
A man who keeps on going; a man who keeps his eye on the ball."
Ian Paisley about Tony Blair
There's no great mystery to satisfying your customers. Build them a quality product
and treat them with respect. It's that simple.
Lee Iacocca, executive

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Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up.

We're fascinated by speed and frustrated by slow

I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today

You gotta have goals!

Life takes on meaning when you become motivated,

You'll never leave where you are,

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal.

Effective people are not problem-minded;

Having lost sight of our objectives, we redoubled our efforts.

We are what we repeatedly do.

Stop selling. Start helping.

Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand

Telling ain�t teaching

The fact that an opinion has been widely held

Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances.

What isn't tried . . . won't work.

You can get everything you want in life,

Make people feel like winners.

Learning is not attained by chance.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

Kites rise highest against the wind,

The mind is not a vessel to be filled,

It takes great courage to faithfully follow

Open your mind and learn to see.

In the factory we make cosmetics; in the drugstore we sell hope.

If the circus is coming to town and you paint a sign saying

If you put the sign on the back of an elephant

If the elephant walks through the mayor's flower bed,

And if you get the mayor to laugh about it,

What helps people, helps business.

Every day do something that will

Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you.

Human beings have the remarkable ability

If you have great ideas and no confidence to share them,

Always bear in mind

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity.

Ninety percent of the success of any product or service

Our plans miscarry if they have no aim.

If you procrastinate when faced with

Above all be of single aim;

All lasting wealth comes from

The path to success is to take

Out of clutter, find Simplicity.

When a goal matters enough to a person,

Every great leap forward in your life

If someone is going down the wrong road,

Ignore people who tell you 'you can't'

Successful people are always looking for

You don't have to be great to get started,

The difference between failure and success

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Free enterprise means

You can accomplish virtually anything

Goals are a preview of future events

The difference between a successful person and others

It's the constant and determined effort

Leadership is practiced not so much in words

Make education a continuing, never-ending process.

Take action every day - some small dose at a time.

Something must die in order to grow

Ask questions to gain, and maintain control of the conversation.