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- Michael Bloomberg

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An attitude of gratitude creates blessings.. Help yourself by helping others. You have the most powerful weapons on earth.. love and prayer.
- Sir John Templeton

In life and business, there are two cardinal sins.. The first is to act precipitously without thought and the second is to not act at all.
- Carl Icahn

Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.
- BC Forbes

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, "Too much of a good thing can be wonderful".
- Warren Buffett

I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.
- Michael Bloomberg

The average man doesn’t wish to be told that it is a bull or a bear market. What he desires is to be told specifically which particular stock to buy or sell. He wants to get something for nothing. He does not wish to work. He doesn’t even wish to have to think.
- Jesse Livermore

In this business if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.
- Peter Lynch

The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
- Norman Vincent Peale

A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove... but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.
- Forest E. Witcraft, American scholar, teacher and scout leader, 1894-1967

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

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott

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

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
- Brian Tracy

People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln

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

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?
- Elbert Hubbard

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
- Helen Keller

The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
- Brian Tracy

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

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
- Albert Einstein

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
- Cecil Beaton

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli

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

Our happiness is greatest when we contribute most to the happiness of others.
- Harriet Shepard

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin (Luther) Powell

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain

The best indices to a person's character are how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.
- Abigail Van Buren

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
- Confucius

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice.
- William Jennings Bryan

...our emotions and our actions are not separate from our thoughts. They are all interrelated. Thinking is the gateway to our emotions--and our emotions are the gateway to our actions.
- Dr. Arthur Freeman and Rose Dewolf

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
- W. Clement Stone

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Lord Chesterfield

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
- Marcus Antoninus

Confidence is the result of hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.
- Roger Staubach

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
- Frank Outlaw

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

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
- Barabra Sher

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
- Albert Schweitzer

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

Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.
- Morihei Ueshiba

To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
- Confucius

Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.
-Harry Browne

Feeling sorry for yourself and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
- Herman Cain

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us."
- Jim Rohn

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?
- Robert Schuller

Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
- M. Scott Peck

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
- Confucius

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
- Confucius

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
- Horace

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
- Vincent Lombardi

Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.
- Walt Disney

Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -certainly no more difficult - than small ideas and small plans.
- David J. Schwartz

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
- W. Clement Stone

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
-George Washington Carver

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
- Napoleon Hill

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

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
- Mary Kay Ash

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
- Jim Rohn

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
- David J. Schwartz

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
- Rudyard Kipling

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
- Peter F. Drucker

It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.
- Dr. Jonas Salk

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
- Napoleon Hill

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy-one!
- Richard M. DeVos

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.
- Greg Anderson

Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain

My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren’t so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.
- Michael Gerber

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

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

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
- Dale Carnegie

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

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
- Andrew Carnegie

The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.
- Albert Einstein

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for - because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.
- Peter Marshall

You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own.
- Mark Victor Hansen

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
- George Bernard Shaw

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
- Sir Winston Churchill

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Mrs. Warren's Profession" (1893) act II

Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.
- Thomas A. Edison

Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan.
- Paul Meyer

The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets. The buck not only stops at their desks, it starts there too.
- Victor Kiam

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do.
- Elbert Hubbard

Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the Ready-Aim-Aim-Aim Syndrome. You must be willing to fire.
- T. Boone Pickens

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
- Elizabeth Kubler Ross

It was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, "God Bless Us, Every One!"
- Charles Dickens

What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.
- Agnes M. Pharo

I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet the words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
- Charles Dickens

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile... it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill

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

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

You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are.
- Edgar A. Guest

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
- Helen Keller

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
- Samuel Smiles

To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France

To love what you do and feel that it matters, how could anything be more fun?
- Katherine Graham

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.
- Sigmund Freud

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
- Charles Darwin

If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a tiny one, but trust that it may be the largest one possible for now.
- Mildred Mcafee

The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
- Robert Frost

Laugh and your life will be lengthened for this is the great secret of long life.
- Og Mandino

Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
- Helen Keller

Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
- Chuang Tzu

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
- Elbert Hubbard

There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
- Napoleon Hill

A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.
- Babe Ruth

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: try to please everybody.
- Herbert Bayard Swope

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

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller

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

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.
- Unknown

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
- Charles Evans Hughes

Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count.
- Dr. Robert Anthony

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

Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths instead of your weaknesses, on your powers instead of your problems.
- Paul J. Meyer

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
- Jim Rohn

It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing.
- Marcia Wieder

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott

Anger is meant to be acted on. It is not meant to be acted out. Anger points the direction. We are meant to use anger as fuel to take the actions we need to move where our anger points us. With a little thought, we can usually translate the message that our anger is sending us.
- Julia Cameron

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility.
- Albert Schweitzer

There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself.
- Andrew Carnegie

Don't find fault find a remedy.
- Henry Ford

Take the attitude of a student; never be to big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
- Og Mandino

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

Charge your future! As you recreate this positive force in your life, take big, massive leaps into your future. Be imaginative, bold and brave! The results may surprise you.
- Jim Allen

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
- Leo Buscaglia

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

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
- Jim Rohn

Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.
- Thomas A Edison

Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
- Denis Waitley

Diligence is the mother of good luck.
- Benjamin Franklin

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.
- David Starr Jordan

Decision is the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothing happens.... Decision is the courageous facing of issues, knowing that if they are not faced, problems will remain forever unanswered.
- Wilfred A. Peterson

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.
- William Joseph Slim

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
- Anthony Robbins

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.
- Henry Ward Beecher

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

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
- Harold Taylor

If you don't have solid beliefs, you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon.
- Alfred A. Montapert

The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but the principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
- Carl Schurz

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
- Wayne Dyer

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
- Stevie Wonder

If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?
- Oscar Hammerstein

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
- Denis Waitley

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie

Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven.
- Philipus A. Paracelsus

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
- Stephen R. Covey

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
- Eden Phillpotts

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
- Elbert Hubbard

Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
- Harvey Mackay

One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
- George Bernard Shaw

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.
- Mark Twain

Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there," stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
- Stephen Covey

Pressure is when you play for five dollars a hole with only two in your pocket.
- Lee Trevino

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
- William Bridges

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
- Harold Taylor

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
- Barabra Sher

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
- Henry Ward Beecher

You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy.
- Garth Brooks

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates

If you put off everything 'till you're sure of it, you'll get nothing done.
- Norman Vincent Peale

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.
- Tony Robbins

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

There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
- Napoleon Hill

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo

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

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
- Socrates

No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.
- Samuel Goldwyn

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
- Buddha

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

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out where the strong man stumbled, or where a doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man in the arena whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs, and who comes up short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause. The man who at best knows the triumph of high achievement and who at worst, if he fails, fails while daring greatly, so that his place will never be with those cold timid souls who never knew victory or defeat.
- Teddy Roosevelt

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
- James A. Michener

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.
- Carl Jung

As punishment for my contempt for authority, fate has made me an authority myself.
- Albert Einstein

The freedom to be your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.
- Colin Powell

One ought every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Never leave that 'till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- St. Francis of Assisi

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
- Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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

He that teaches us anything, which we knew not before, is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.
- Samuel Johnson

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

I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
- Abraham Lincoln

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
- Franklin Roosevelt

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
- Albert Einstein

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
- Dale Carnegie

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.
- Robert F. Bennett

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me a man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.
- George Eliot

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

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
- Bishop W.C. Magee

Construct your determination with sustained effort, controlled attention, and concentrated energy. Opportunities never come to those who wait, they are captured by those who dare to attack.
- Paul J. Meyer

Belief consists in accepting the affirmation of the soul; unbelief is denying them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.
- Elbert Hubbard

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

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

It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
- Henry David Thoreau

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
- Socrates

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.
- Stephen B. Leacock

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution.
- Kahlil Gibran

Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.
- Doug Hall

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
- Japanese Proverb

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.
- John Wesley

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness or abilities 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

Plan for the future because that's where you are going to spend the rest of your life.
- Mark Twain

If it turns out that my best wasn't good enough, at least I won't look back and say that I was afraid to try; failure makes me work even harder.
- Michael Jordan

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

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
- Leo Buscaglia

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
- William Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice)

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

Don't accept that others know you better than yourself. Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.
- James Allen

Big goals get big results. No goals gets no results or somebody else's results.
- Mark Victor Hansen

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
- Albert Schweitzer

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
- Dale Carnegie

The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.
- Napoleon Hill

Diligence is the mother of good luck.
- Benjamin Franklin

Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
- Henry David Thoreau

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
- James Allen

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
- Norman Vincent Peale

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

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
- Denis Waitley

Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
- Tyron Edwards

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
- T. S. Eliot

There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
- Napoleon Hill

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
-Earl Nightingale

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850

You can determine how confident people are by listening to what they DON'T say about themselves.
- Brian G. Jett

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
- Aristotle

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
- Dale Carnegie

Blame yourself as you would blame others; excuse others as you would excuse yourself.
- Chinese proverb

Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable.
- Zig Ziglar

The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.
- Henry Ford

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
- T. S. Eliot

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
- Norman Vincent Peale

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

The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.
- Don Shula

The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist.
- Harold Wilkins

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
- Mother Teresa

Failures don't plan to fail; they fail to plan.
- Harvey Mackay

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
- Broderick Crawford

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.
- Helen Hayes

The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.
- Stephen Covey

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
- Mary Pickford

Change can either challenge or threaten us...Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.
- Marsha Sinetar

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
- Montaigne

...the enemy of our enemy is perspective... All we need to do is expose fears to the sunlight and they shrink. They're persistent but not brave. Or expose them to ridicule, and they flee. Laughing juries don't convict.
- Dale Dauten

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
- Samuel Johnson

Self-trust is the first secret of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment...;If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard

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

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
-John Henry Newman

How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
- Unknown

You are searching for the magic key that will unlock the door to the source of power; and yet you have the key in your own hands, and you may use it the moment you learn to control your thoughts.
-Napoleon Hill

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
- Earl Nightingale

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you.
- Henry J. Kaiser

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
- John C. Maxwell

Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt.
- William Shakespeare (Measure by Measure)

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
- Stephen Covey

Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
- Samuel Johnson

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- Bertrand Russell

Once you agree upon the price, you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts of the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.
- Vincent Lombardi

Every fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying.
- Harry Anderson

All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney

We lift ourselves by our thought. We climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere.
- Orison Swett Marden

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
- Aristotle

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help with man with the wrong mental attitude.
- W.W. Ziege

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Lord Chesterfield

Don't judge those who try and fail, judge those who fail to try.
- Unknown

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last
- William Penn

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
- Kahlil Gibran

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
- Henry Ford

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
- Joseph Addison

The only thing in life achieved without effort is failure.
- Unknown

The principles you live by create the world you live in; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world.
- Blaine Lee

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
- Dr. David Schwartz

Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it.
- Greg Anderson

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily.
- Plato

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
- David Tyson Gentry

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
- Albert Einstein

Failures don't plan to fail; they fail to plan.
- Harvey Mackay

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

Seven things will destroy us: Wealth without work; Pleasure without conscience; Knowledge without character; Commerce without morality;Science without humanity; Worship without sacrifice; Politics without principles.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
- Earl Nightingale

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
- Robert Frost

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

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

Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.
-Christian Furchtegott Gellert

Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the Ready-Aim-Aim-Aim Syndrome. You must be willing to fire.
- T. Boone Pickens

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Running from fear only strengthens fear -- you are demonstrating that fear has power over you. Fear must be faced and gone through... Only then do we learn the truth of fear -- that fear is merely an illusion, not a real thing.
- Peter McWilliams

To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all. But to believe in the unseen is both a triumph and a blessing.
- Bob Proctor

Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money, power and influence.
- Henry Chester

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

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work, the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson

Every fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying.
- Harry Anderson

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
- Richard Bach

It is time to break through the barriers that have held you back and held you down for such a long time. It is time to reach out and indelibly etch your place in history.
- Greg Hickman

Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.
- Unknown

No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.
- Henry David Thoreau

A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the quality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.
- Unknown

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
- Mark Twain

Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.
- Charles A. Cerami

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
-Katharine Hepburn

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Lord Chesterfield

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
-Lao Tzu

A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
- Zadok Rabinwitz

The search for someone to blame is always successful.
- Robert Half

The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis."
- Winston Churchill

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life away in fruitless efforts.
- Samuel Johnson

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-Elbert Hubbard

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited; imagination encircles the world.
- Albert Einstein

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
- Woodrow Wilson

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

A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
- Charles Darwin

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

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

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
- John Wooden

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

I do the best I know how, the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
- Abraham Lincoln

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

Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.
- Yogi Desai

Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.
- H. Stanley Judd

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play.
- Boris Becker

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life away in fruitless efforts.
- Samuel Johnson

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

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.
- Epicurus

A man will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
- Robert Frost

In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.
- Daniel L. Reardon

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
- Walter Anderson

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci

There are no easy answers ... but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
- Ronald Reagan

Flaming enthusiasm backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
- Dale Carnegie

Remember, what you get by reaching your destination isn't nearly as important as what you become by reaching your goals -- what you will become is the winner you were born to be!
-Zig Ziglar

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
- Michael Jordan

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
- Helen Keller

It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Most people think that courage is the absence of fear. The absence of fear is not courage; the absence of fear is some kind of brain damage. Courage is the capacity to go ahead in spite of the fear, or in spite of the pain. When you do that, you will find that overcoming that fear will not only make you stronger but will be a big step forward toward maturity.
- M. Scott Peck

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

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

When we blame, we give away our power.
- Greg Anderson

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
- Audre Lorde

Will you look back on life and say, 'I wish I had,' or 'I'm glad I did'?
- Zig Ziglar

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

Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert Kennedy

There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.
- William Frederick Halsy, Jr.

All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do.
-Norman Vincent Peale

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.
- Aristotle

One of the greatest weaknesses in most of us is our lack of faith in ourselves.
- L. Tom Perry

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
- English proverb

People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all. But to believe in the unseen is both a triumph and a blessing.
- Bob Proctor

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
- John Maxwell

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

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

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible--and achieve it.
- Pearl Buck

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'
- Sydney Harris

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
- James A. Michener

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles Schwab

There isn't a person anywhere that isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can.
- Henry Ford

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale

To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
- Bunker Hunt

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
- Orison Swett Marden

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
- Henry David Thoreau

One of the greatest weaknesses in most of us is our lack of faith in ourselves.
- L. Tom Perry

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
-Vincent Van Gogh

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

Before you talk about what you want - Really appreciate what you have before it's gone.
- Ethan Daniel

Everyone has inside himself a piece of good news! The good news is that you really don't know how great you can be, how much you can love, what you can accomplish, and what your potential is!
- Anne Frank

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
- Norman Vincent Peale

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

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
- Stephen Covey

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
- E. Joseph Cossman

The significant problems we face cannot be resolved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
- Albert Einstein

Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
- Rob Gilbert

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.
- Helen Keller

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
- Horace

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
- Abraham Lincoln

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.
- Henry David Thoreau

Perseverance is a great element of success; if you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate you are sure to wake up somebody.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The time is always right to do what is right.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.
- Mark Twain

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
- Sam Walton

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.
- Denis Waitley

I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock.
- Henny Youngman

If you aren't fired up with enthusiasm, you'll be fired with enthusiasm.
- Vincent Lombardi

This is the way of the most wise and useful people - the more they know, the more they long to know.
- Dale Dauten

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert Francis Kennedy

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
- Anthony Robbins

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin

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

For myself, I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do.
- Albert Gray

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.
- William Joseph Slim

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
- Willie Nelson

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you.
- Henry J. Kaiser

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
- Vincent van Gogh

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

Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
- Jack Dempsey

I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.
- Les Brown

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
- Vincent Lombardi

The greatest crime in the world is not developing your potential. When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but the world.
- Roger Williams

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade.
- Benjamin Franklin

The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.
- Geoffrey Gaberino

I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you.
- Henry J. Kaiser

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

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

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
- Albert Schweitzer

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.
- Peter F. Drucker

Victory always starts in the head. It's a state of mind. It then spreads with such radiance and such affirmations that destiny can do nothing but obey.
- Douchan Gersi

Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
- Margaret Thatcher

Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
- Tyron Edwards

It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.
- David Feherty

The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.
- Geoffrey Gaberino

A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
- George Washington

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

The desire to know is natural to good men.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
- George Eliot

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy

He who builds according to every man's advice will have a crooked house.
- Danish proverb

There is more to life than increasing its speed.
- Gandhi

Failure is the path of least persistence.
- Author unknown

The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water; but to walk on the earth.
- Chinese Proverb

I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.
-Milton Berle

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
- Warren G. Bennis

The world is too much with us. Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.
- William Wordsworth

"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."
-Hugh Downs Veteran Journalist