Great Quotes

Great Quotes


Stand out Instead of making promises, deliver value. Instead of fighting for the chance to receive discarded scraps, work diligently to freely give big buckets of nourishing substance. Rather than growing hoarse from shouting, grow wise from listening. When those around you are tripping all over their own arrogance and self-importance, have the confidence to live with genuine humility. Those who so desperately and endlessly brag about themselves quickly fade into a meaningless blur. Those who quietly and consistently perform are the ones who soon stand out from the crowd. If you assume that people are stupid, and look upon them with disrespect, they will look at you in exactly the same way. When you seek to take advantage of others, you become ridiculously easy prey for those who will certainly take advantage of you. The way to stand out is not by pushing others back. The way to stand out is by generously and sincerely leading others forward. Expect the best of others, and respectfully give the best that you have. Choose to stand out, away from the pettiness and shortsighted greed, and you'll find a truly magnificent life. -- Ralph Marston Harmony Harmony does not mean that everyone is in agreement. It means that no one is attempting to force his or her opinions on others. Harmony does not mean that everyone is the same. It means that everyone respects and tolerates and even celebrates the differences that give so much richness to life. Harmony is not ever achieved by brute force. Harmony is reached when every individual understands, on his or her own terms, that it is by far the most effective way to live. Harmony does not come about through intimidation or scolding or threats of punishment. Harmony is reached through understanding. Harmony cannot exist where people are interested only in what they can take. Harmony is built through giving. Harmony comes not by giving in or by being weak or by surrendering one's most treasured principles, or by the cowardly attempt to control others. Harmony is the domain of those who are confident enough in their own lives to allow others to peacefully flourish. -- Ralph Marston "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel" - Anonymous Accept responsibility If you blame others for your problems and situations, you give them control over you. The only way you can take full control of your life is to accept responsibility for it. Without responsibility, you are powerless, adrift without direction. Your life, your circumstances, your success, your shortcomings, your disappointments, your joys are created by you. Everything you are, everything you have at this point in your life is a result your actions. You are responsibile, whether you accept it or deny it. Achievers have the viewpoint that whatever happens, whether it is good or bad, they created it. You begin to create your own world as soon as you accept responsibility for yourself and the things around you. ***************************************** "OUT OF CLUTTER, FIND SIMPLICITY. FROM DISCORD, FIND HARMONY. IN THE MIDDLE OF DIFFICULTY, LIES OPPORTUNITY" -ALBERT EINSTEIN We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from "Letter from Birmingham Jail," April 16, 1963** "Whenever you are constantly moving forward, searching for the cutting edge, everyone behind you always believes you have gone too far. The further back from the cutting edge they are, the more extreme and, indeed, insane, you appear to them, to be. In this way, one persons "madness" can be anothers commonsense." - David Icke Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. -- Henry David Thoreau Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours. - *Ayn Rand* The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to someone else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self. - Whitney Young "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas A. Edison "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost: that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them." - Henry Thoreau "You cannot build a reputation on what you are going to do." - Henry Ford Look well to this one day, for it alone is Life. Yesterday is only a dream and tomorrow but a vision; yet each day well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and each tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this one day for it alone is Life. - Unknown "True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changes his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance." - Akhenaton "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." - Mark Twain "The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken." - Samuel Johnson "What you become in 5 years will be determined by what you read and who you associate with now." - Charles Jones "You, me, everybody - we're all subject to a basic fact of human nature; we all need to feel important and to feel that other people recognize our importance. This means that when we deal with others, the temptation is always present to impress them. RESIST IT. - Burton Kaplan The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days. - Robert Leighton Thought is Possibility - Furious Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools. - George Chapman There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh "When you don't know you have been spit on, it does not matter too much what else you think you know." - Ruth Shays "As long as an educated and wealthy Nigerian can be "Jim Crowed" in Johannesburg on his own ancestral continent or can still see a Ku Klux Klan cross burning in Mississippi, or until Africans have their proportionate share of posts on the great corporations that control their economies, or until one sees black faces among the top elites throughout the Arab world and in Hispanic America and Brazil where they are more rare now than in the racist United States, mobilization as blacks is still necessary....Worldwide black conciousness is a psychological reserve that can be mobilized to achieve local ends as well as to aid others as the liberation process continues on. - St. Clair Drake "A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess." - A. Philip Randolph "We cannot afford to delay or be indecisive, for indecision is a decision in itself." - Unknown "Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions." - John Randolph of Roanoke. Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action - Benjamin Disrael Take the time to select an opportunity to take action - Unknown "Fall seven times, get up eight." Who knows? The road to success may be just around the corner. Wouldn't you be dismayed to realize that it was right in front of you, and you had stopped before you reached it? old Japanese Proverb..... You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw 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 Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny. - Carl Schurz "Through some strange and powerful principle, Nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire "that something" which recognizes no such word as impossible, and accepts no such reality as failure." - Napoleon Hill

Ability Do it trembling if you must, but do it ! - Unknown The past cannot be changed, the future is still in your power. - Hugh White A champion is someone who gets up, even when they can't. - Natalie Rogers Don't let today's disappointments cast a shadow on tomorrow's dreams. - Unknown “Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.” *Josh Billings* "Ability is of little account without opportunity." *Napoleon* "Man has made some machines that can answer questions provided the facts are profusely stored in them, but we will never be able to make a machine that will ask questions. The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer." *Thomas J. Watson* "Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow." *Ronald E. Osborn* "Our work is the presentation of our capabilities." *Goethe* "God does not ask about our ability, but our availability." *Author Unknown* "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm" *Winston Churchill* "Ability will never catch up with the demand for it." *Malcolm S. Forbes* "During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think." *Bernard Mannes Baruch* "One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency." *Arnold H. Glasgow* “We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.” *Longfellow* "Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to perservere in the face of many difficult odds. There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it." *Dr. Joyce Brothers* "Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment." *Baltasar Gracian* "We are our own coach and team Yet we often sideline our best efforts. We all have unique gifts and talents, Yet many pass undiscovered. The world is full of opportunities, Yet our view of life can blind us to them. We are all capable of so much, Yet limited by so little." *Donald S. Neviaser* "It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self." *Francois de La Rochefoucauld* "The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled." *Andrew Carnegie* "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." *Anthony Robins* “They are able because they think they are able.” *Vergil* “There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.” *Elbert Hubbard* "Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life" *Dr. David M. Burns* "Success is that old ABC -- ability, breaks, and courage." *Charles Luckman* “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* "You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through." *Rosalynn Smith Carter* "Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over." *F. Scott Fitzgerald* "Man has made some machines that can answer questions provided the facts are profusely stored in them, but we will never be able to make a machine that will ask questions. The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer." *Thomas J. Watson* "I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on." *Samuel Goldwyn* “As is our confidence, so is our capacity.” *William Hazlitt* "I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!" *Lou Holtz* "Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility, in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility." *Michael Korda* "Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when it ought to be done whether you like it or not." *Thomas Huxley* "If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability." *Henry Ford* "The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability." *Fred A. Manske, Jr.* "Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study." *Francis Bacon* "Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind." *F. Scott Fitzgerald* "Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." *Lou Holtz* "Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones." *Ralph Waldo Emerson* "We all have ability. The difference is how we use it." *Stevie Wonder* "You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence." *Robert Frost* "You are the only person on earth who can use your ability." *Zig Ziglar* "The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts." *Booker T. Washington*

Action "People may doubt what you say but they will believe what you do." *Submitted by Lauren* "Light the fire within." *Submitted by Lauren* "Fate knows where you are going, but it is up to you to drive there." *Michelle Keesling* "Doing the Right Thing Sometimes doing the right thing, is to do nothing at all." *Mike Gafka* "We are responsible for what we are, and we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act." *Swami Vivekananda* "Who you are is not what you are but is what you are that determines who you are." *William Ngwako Maphoto* "Nothing happens until I make it happen." *Scott Wilson* “You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.” *Henry Ford* "I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results." *Florence Nightingale* "Ideas without action are worthless." *Harvey Mackay* "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* "Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action." *Napoleon Hill* “The ancestor of every action is a thought.” *Ralph Wlado Emerson* "We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought." *Alfred North Whitehead* “There are costs and risks to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.” *John F. Kennedy* "What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say." *Ralph Waldo Emerson* "Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions." *Harold S. Geneen* “Never confuse motion with action.” *Benjamin Franklin* “Just Do It!” *Nike Running Shoes Advertisment* "If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.” *Katherine Hepburn* "A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do. Nothing else." *Mahatma Gandhi* “Drive thy business, or it will drive thee.” *Benjamin Franklin* "If the wind will not serve, take to the oars." *Latin Proverb* “The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.” *Harry Emerson Fosdick* “Do or do not. There is no try.” *Yoda* “As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.” *Andrew Carnegie* "Action is the proper fruit of knowledge. " *English proverb* “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” *Theodore Roosevelt* "Go for it now. The future is promised to no one." *Wayne Dyer* “No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.” *William Blake* “You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind.” *Irish Proverb* "The great end of life is not knowledge but action." *Thomas H. Huxley* "The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention." *Larry Eisenberg* "A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one." *Francis Jeffery* "Do not be too timid or squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment." *Ralph Waldo Emerson* "Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action." *Benjamin Disraeli* "A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need." *Pedro Calderon de la Barca* "Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer." *Marcia Wieder* "Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it." *Ralph Waldo Emerson* "Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action." *Helen Gahagan Douglas* "I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions." *Dorothy Day* "Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have." *Margaret Mead* "A man's action is only a picture book of his creed." *Ralph Waldo Emerson* "For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour." *Mary Kay Ash*

Attitude "Your attitudes and the choices you make today will be your life tomorrow, build it wisely." *Author Unknown* "If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of becoming a prophet." *Isaac Bashevis Singer* "Two men looked out from prison bars, one saw the mud, the other the stars." *Author Unknown* "Life reflects your own thoughts back to you." *Napoleon Hill* "The mind is like a clock that is constantly running down. It has to be wound up daily with good thoughts." *Fulton J. Sheen* "All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become." *Buddha* "This world is a great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong." *Swami Vivekananda* "It is your disabled attitude that determines your disability and it is your disability that can or can't close opportunities in life for you." *William Ngwako Maphoto* "You cannot be healthy; you cannot be happy; you cannot be prosperous; if you have a bad disposition.” *Emmet Fox* "When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up." *Roger W. Babson* "Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." *Lou Holtz* "The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind." *William James (1842-1910)* "Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." *Thomas Jefferson*

Challenges "Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." *Dale Carnegie* "Check the position of your capacity gauge, before tackling any challenge as it may take more or less than you 'have'." *William Maphoto* "Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself." *Richard M. Nixon* "A challenge is an opportunity to prove your ability to yourself, and others." *Joe Brown* "To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can't just accept the ones you like." *Mike Gafka* "Let your language be a source of unity but not a separating tool." *William Ngwako Maphoto* "Make every rejection moment an opportunity for revolution." *William Ngwako Maphoto* "Make every revulsion(dislike) into Attraction." *William Ngwako Maphoto* “If someone says “can’t”, that shows you what to do.” *John Cage* “Troubles, like babies, grow larger by nursing.” *Lady Holland* "For every mountain there is a miracle." *Robert H. Schuller* “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* "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." *Aldous Huxley* “Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.” *Washington Irving* “Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.” *Horace* “Adversity introduces a man to himself.” *Author Unknown* "A desire can overcome all objections and obstacles." *Gunderson* “Prosperity is a great teacher; Adversity is a greater.” *Hazlitt* “There is no education like adversity.” *Disraeli* "Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight." *Orison Swett Marden* "The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain." *Richard M. Nixon* “The true way to soften one’s troubles is to solace those of others.” *Mme. de Maintenon* “The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges.” *Martin Luther King Jr.* “Smooth seas do not make skilful sailors.” *African Proverb* “It’s not whether you get knocked down. It’s whether you get up again.” Vince Lombardi "The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong." *Thomas Carlyle* "Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road." *Dag Hammarskjold* "Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down." *Charles F. Kettering* "When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it." *Henry Ford* "The obstacles you face are... mental barriers which can be broken by adopting a more positive approach." *Clarence Blasier* "Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records." *William A. Ward* "Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths." *Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe* "Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have." *Norman Vincent Peale* "Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye." *Helen Keller* "In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time." *Robert Collier* "You must do the thing you think you cannot do." *Eleanor Roosevelt* "Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are." *Bernice Johnson Reagon* "Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me." *Charles F. Kettering* "It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worthwhile is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears." *Ella Wheeler Wilcox*

Change "Change is inevitable . . . adapting to change is unavoidable, it's how you do it that sets you together or apart." *William Ngwako Maphoto* "Wisdom is unchanging! Information and ideas, technology and techniques, practices and habits, fashions and perceptions change frequently, but the wisdom of the 17th or 18th century is still wisdom in the 21st century and will still be wisdom in the 23rd century. If it changes, it wasn't wisdom. Wisdom is unchanging and timeless." *Brian D. Kennedy* “Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance." *Benjamin Disraeli* "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." *Reinhold Niebuhr* 'The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it." *Colin Wilson* "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain." *Maya Angelou* "The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress." *Charles F. Kettering* "We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses." *C. G. Jung* "Change is the law of life, and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future." *John Fitzgerald Kennedy* "Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change." *Confucius* "It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to." *Marilyn Ferguson* "Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." *George Bernard Shaw* "Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." *Margaret Mead* "The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order." *Alfred North Whitehead* "When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us." *Alexander Graham Bell* "The absurd man is he who never changes." *Auguste Barthelemy* "You have to stop to change direction." *Eric Fromm* "There is nothing permanent except change." *Heraclitus* "If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living." *Gail Sheehy* "The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning." *Ivy Baker Priest* "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." *Leo Tolstoy* "We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing." *R. D. Laing* "Everything changes but change." *Zangwill* "I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself." *Aldous Huxley* "Every really new idea looks crazy at first." *Alfred North Whitehead* "Often times the only change people like is when the change makes a noise in their pocket." *Unknown* "The absurd man is he who never changes." *Augeste Barthélemy* "He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery." *Harold Wilson* "We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped." *Lyman Lloyd Bryson* "Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes." *Johann Wolfgang von Goethe* "I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better." *G. C. Lichtenberg* "Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were a cause indeed to weep." *William Cullen Bryant* "Companies have got to learn to eat change for breakfast." *Tom Peters* “Repeatedly, we attempt the impossible and try to change other people - but attempting this is a waste of time!" *Catherine Pulsifer* "Change your thoughts, and you change your world." *Norman Vincent Peale* "Rather than wishing for change, you first must be prepared to change." *Catherine Pulsifer*

Confidence “As is our confidence, so is our capacity.” *William Hazlitt* "All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become." *Buddha* "It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself." *Muhammad Ali* "Nuture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think." *Benjamin Disraeli* "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too." *Storey* "The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that, which we have in others." *La Rochefoucauld* "Watch my dust." *Babe Ruth* "If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started." *Marcus Garvey* "Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence." *Washington (Letter 1783)* "Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication." *Roger Staubach* "Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning." *Hubert Green* "With confidence, you can reach truly amazing heights; without confidence, even the simplest accomplishments are beyond your grasp." *Jim Loehr* "You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference." *Chris Evert Lloyd*

Determination "When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." *Franklin D. Roosevelt* "Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination." *Norman Vincent Peale "I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it." Gale Sayers* “Where there’s a will there’s a way.” *English Proverb* "Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you." *Denis Waitley* "The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed." *Richard B. Sheridan* "If you really want something, you can figure out how to make it happen." *Cher* "A determined person will do more with a pen and paper, than a lazy person will accomplish with a personal computer." *Catherine Pulsifer* "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* "When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it." *Henry Ford* "The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination." *Tommy Lasorda* "If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through." *Rosalyn Carter* "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* "There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul." *Ella Wheeler Wilcox* "Don't let go of your dreams. If you have determination and belief in your dreams, you will succeed in spite of your desire to let go." *Catherine Pulsifer* "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." *Theodore Roosevelt* "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* "It was courage, faith, endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all obstacles that built this bridge." *John J. Watson* "So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win." *Og Mandino* "How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser." *Lou Holtz* "I realized that with hard work, the world was your oyster. You could do anything you wanted to do." *Chris Evert Lloyd* "Within each of us is a hidden store of determination. Determination to keep us in the race when all seems lost." *Roger Dawson* "Determination is the wake-up call to the human will. " *Anthony Robbins* "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." *Albert Einstein* "Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so." *Charles De Gaulle* "Set your goals high, and dont stop till you get there." *Bo Jackson* "A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop." *Robert Hughes* "Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal -- a commitment to excellence -- that will enable you to attain the success you seek. " *Mario Andretti* "An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men." *Dr. Thomas Fuller* "Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power." *Charles Simmons* "Those who don't understand determination call determination stubbornness or too driven. To be determined is to see it through!" *Catherine Pulsifer* "Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough." *Og Mandino* "Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances." *J. Donald Wlters* "The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do." *Dennis Waitley* "Nothing is the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; Genius will not; Education will not; Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." *Calvin Coolidge* "The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand." *Vince Lombardi* "I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didnt have a chance to win." *Arnold Palmer* "You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction." *George Lorimer* "I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time." *Charles Dickens* "We will either find a way, or make one!" *Hannibal*

Discouraged "Do not be discouraged if your plans do not succeed the first time. No one learns to walk by taking only one step." *Catherine Pulsifer* “Never, never, never quit!” *Winston Churchill* "A problem is a chance for your to do your best." *Duke Ellington* "Every seed knows its time- all in good time." *Russian Proverb* "Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself." *Richard Milhouse Nixon* "If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress." *Calvin Coolidge* "There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still." *Franklin D. Roosevelt* "History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats." *Bertie Forbes* "Would you like me to give you a formula for...success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure... You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... You can be discouraged by failure--or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side." *Thomas John Watson, Sr.* "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* "I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward." *Thomas Alva Edison*

Dreams "Set out each day believing in your dreams. Know without a doubt that you were made for amazing things." *Josh Hinds* "Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die tomorrow." *Author Unknown* "Each sunrise gives hope to your dreams and light to your plans." *William Ngwako Maphoto* "Darkness, is your temporal circumstance, therefore it can't shut-off your hope in the versioned brightness." *William Ngwako Maphoto* "Dreams are pure thought, An opportunity to discover yourself." *Joe Brown* "Without dreams, there is no reality!" *Luis B. Couto* "If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember this whole thing was started by a mouse." *Walt Disney* "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." *Goethe* "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." *Eleanor Roosevelt* "You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself." *Diana Ross* "Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true." *Napoleon Hill* "If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big." *Donald Trump* "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past." *Thomas Jefferson* "Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the action stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living." *Anais Nin* "Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out 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* "When you have a dream you've got to grab it and never let go." *Carol Burnett* "We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true." *Denis Waitley* “Nothing happens unless first a dream.“ *Carl Sandburg* "The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you." *Tom Bradley* "Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours." *Les Brown* "A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die." *Les Brown* "Hope is the dream of a waking man." *Diogenes* “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” *Henry David Thoreau* "Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so." *Belva Davis* "A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams." *John Barrymore* "Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements." *Napoleon Hill* “Some people die at twenty-five and aren’t buried until they are seventy-five.” *Benjamin Franklin* "As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think." *Toni Morrison* "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've always imagined." *Henry David Thoreau* "A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere." *Joyce A. Myers* "Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams." *Joyce Brothers* "Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams." *Les Brown* Visualize this thing that you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint, and begin to build! --Robert Collier "All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. " *Walt Disney* "It may be those who do most, dream most." *Stephen Leacock* "Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed!" *Ralph Waldo Emerson* "It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow." *Bob Goddard* "I dreamed a thousand new paths. I woke and walked my old one." *Chinese Proverb* "Since it doesn't cost a dime to dream, you'll never shortchange yourself when you stretch your imagination." *Robert Schuller* "We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams." *Jesse Jackson* "When truth and desire meet, dreams are born." - Unknown

Enthusiasm “The real secret of success is enthusiasm.” *Walter Chrysler* "For every sale you miss you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough." *Zig Ziglar* "Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do." *Norman Vincent Peale* "I studied the lives of great men and famous 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." *Henry Truman* “A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.” *Charles M. Schwab* "The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm." *Thomas J. Watson, Sr* "If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be - enthusiasm. " *Bruce Barton* "Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away." *Denis Waitley* "You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. With it, there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis." *Henry Ford* "Motivation will almost always beat mere talent." *Norman Augustine* “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” *Emerson* "The real secret of success is enthusiasm. Yes, more than enthusiasm, I would say excitement. I like to see men get excited. When they get excited they make a success of their lives. " *Walter Chrysler* "It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living." *Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr* "Enthusiasm - the sustaining power of all great action." *Samuel Smiles* "Today is life -- the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto." *Dale Carnegie* "A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one." *Mary Kay Ash* "Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding." *Ralph Waldo Emerson* “We act though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.” *Charles Kingsley* "The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm." *Aldous Huxley* "Every man is enthusiastic at times. One man has enthusiasm for thirty minutes - another for thirty days, but it is the man who has it for thirty years who makes a success of his life." *Edward B. Butler* "Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow." *Norman Vincent Peale* "Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit." *Gordon Parks* "I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement." *Charles Schwab* "If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm." *Vince Lombardi* "Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved." *Ralph Waldo Emerson* "Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation." *Kahlil Gibran* "Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success." *Dale Carnegie* "When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it." *W. Clement Stone* "Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm." *Winston Churchill* "Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities." *Norman Vincent Peale* "We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. " Charles Kingsley

Excuses "For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future but an excuse can last for life." *Eric Hoffer* "The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses." *Erica Jong* "Sometimes, people use age as a convenient excuse. 'I'm to old too start something new', or, 'I couldn't learn that at my age.' Other people, though, go on to acheive their greatest accomplishments in life in later years." *Catherine Pulsifer* “An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.” *Alexander Pope* "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 La Rochefoucauld* "I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse." *Florence Nightingale* "We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse." *Rudyard Kipling* He who excuses himself, accuses himself. *Gabriel Meurier* "Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions." *Charles Simmons* "There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstance permit. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results." *Art Turock* "I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else." *Benjamin Franklin* "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* "Niney-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses." *George W. Carver* "Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure." *Don Wilder* "Dont' make excuses, make good." *Elbert Hubbard* "A bad workman always blames his tools." *Proverb* "He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else." *Benjamin Franklin* "People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses." *Dr. Laura Schlessinger* "Don't look for excuses to lose. Look for excuses to win." *Chi Chi Rodriguez* "It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses." *William Ward*
Failure "The way a man plays a game shows some of his character. The way he loses shows all of it." Unknown “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” *Thomas Edison* “Results! Why, man I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won’t work.” *Thomas A. Edison* "There is always another chance... This thing called 'failure' is not falling down, but staying down." *Mary Pickford* "Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail." *Ralph Waldo Emerson* "If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try -- you don't take the risk." *Rosalynn Carter* “There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.” *T.H. Huxley* "A minute's success pays the failure of years." *Robert Browning* "Indecision and delays are the parents of failure." *George Canning* "For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour." *Mary Kay Ash* "There is no failure except in no longer trying." *Elbert Hubbard* “Fall seven times, Stand up eight.” *Japanese Proverb* "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in that gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." *Theodore Roosevelt* "Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure." *Edward Eggleston* “Come to the edge,” he said. They said, “We are afraid.” “Come to the edge,” he said. They came. He pushed them… And they flew.” *Guillaume Apollinaire* "A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else." *John Burroughs* "There are two kinds of failures: The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else." *Perle Thompson* "Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures." *Gene Brown* "If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate." *Thomas Watson, Sr* "Failures don't plan to fail; they fail to plan." *Harvey Mackay* "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." *Bill Cosby* "You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space." *Johnny Cash* "Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives." *Edwin Bliss* "Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped." *African Proverb* "I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure." *Anne Baxter* "Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm." *Winston Churchill* "It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is not to make the attempt." *SueEllen Fried* "Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive." *Scott Adams* “Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.” *Daniel Webster* "Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." *Henry Ford* "Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final." *Roger W. Babson* "The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail." *Napoleon Hill* "I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate." *George Burns* "Many people dream of success. To me, success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection." *Soichiro Honda* "Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses." *George Washington Carver* "I've never been afraid to fail. *Michael Jordan* "It's not whether you get knocked down. It's whether you get up again." *Vince Lombardi*

Future "Live well, Learn plenty, Laugh often, Love much." *Ralph Waldo Emerson* “My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.” *Charles F. Kettering* “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” *Ralph Waldo Emerson* "Always remember that the future comes one day at a time." *Dean Acheson* “Whatever your past has been, you have a spotless future.” *Melanie Gustafson* "America's future walks through the doors of our schools each day." *Mary Jean LeTendre* "A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs." *Bernard Baruch* “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* “When all else is lost, the future still remains.” *Bovee* “A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.” *Sydney J. Harri* “The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show.” *Author Unknown* “The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.” *Joseph Conrad* “If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one." *John Galsworthy* “I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” *Thomas Jefferson* “You can never plan the future by the past." *Edmund Burke* “My dreams are my dress rehearsals for my future.” *David Copperfield* "No amount of sophistication is going to allay the fact that all your knowledge is about the past and all your decisions are about the future." *Ian Wilson* "Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay." *Simone de Beauvoir* "Just remember -- when you think all is lost, the future remains." *Bob Goddard* "The Future . . . something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is." *C. S. Lewis* "In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists." *Eric Hoffer* "Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life." *Alvin Toffler* “People always find it easier to be a result of the past rather than a cause of the future." *Anonymous* “The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.” *Abraham Lincoln* “Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.” *Walter Savage Landor* "The future has a way of arriving unannounced." *George F. Will* "Don't try to innovate for the future. Innovate for the present!" *Peter Drucker* “One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.” *Michael Cibenko* "Many time the reading of a book has made the future of a man." *Ralph Waldo Emerson* “When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” *Alexander Graham Bell* "Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you." *Jim Rohn* "I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is." *Donald Trump* "Go for it now. The future is promised to no one." *Wayne Dyer* “Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.” *Babatunde Olatunji* "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today." *William Allen White* "The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present." *John Naisbitt* "The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create." *Leonard I. Sweet* "Live out of your imagination, not your history." *Stephen Covey* "If you don't take charge of shaping your own destiny, others will apply their agenda to you." *Eric Allenbaugh* "I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough." *Albert Einstein* "Effective managers live in the present -- but concentrate on the future." *James L. Hayes* "I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning . . . Every day I find something creative to do with my life." *Miles Davis* "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." *Eleanor Roosevelt*

Genius “Genius is only great patience.” *Buffon* “Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.” *Edison* "Genius is eternal patience." *Michelangelo* "Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them." *Joseph Joubert* "Doing easily what others find is difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius." *Henri Frederic Amiel* "Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have." *Woodrow Wilson* "Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm." *Benjamin Disraeli* "Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes." *Ralph Waldo Emerson* "Don't bother about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust in hard work, perseverance, and determination. And the best motto for the long march is: "Don't grumble. Plug on!" *Frederick Treves* "Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius." *Arthur Conan Doyle* "Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!" *May Sarton* "If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius." *Joseph Addison* “Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.” *Bulwer-Lytton* "Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade." *Benjamin Franklin* "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction." *E. F. Schumacher* “Inspiration and genius—one and the same.” *Victor Hugo* "Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it." *Horace* "Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you." *Malcolm Cowley* "Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed." *George Henry Lewes* "Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn." *Joseph Addison* "The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm." *Aldous Huxley* "One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire." *John W. Foster*

Goals "Life's ups and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want." *Marsha Sinetar* "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 trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score." *Bill Copeland* "Goals are not only absolutely necesary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive." *Robert H. Schuller* "If you have a goal in life that takes a lot of energy, that requires a lot of work, that incurs a great deal of interest and that is a challenge to you, you will always look forward to waking up to see what the new day brings." *Susan Polis Schultz* "Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end-results. Think of the elation, the satisfaction, the joy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into view." *Grace Spear* "You have to set goals that are almost out of reach. If you set a goal that is attainable without much work or thought, you are stuck with something below your true talent and potential." *Steve Garvey* "Choosing a goal and sticking to it changes everything." *Scott Reed* "The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach." *Benjamin Mays* "Goals determine what you're going to be." *Julius Erving* "Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success." *David Joseph Schwartz* "Progress has little to do with speed, but much to do with direction." *Author Unknown* "Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps." *Helmut Schmidt* "To acheive happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal." *Earl Nightingale* "The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going." *Ralph Waldo Emereson* "When you determine what you want, you have made the most important decision in your life. You have to know what you want in order to attain it." *Douglas Lurtan* "Great minds have purposes, others have dreams." *Washington Irving* "You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals." *Booker T. Washington* "Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success." *Stephen A. Brennan* "Goals are dreams with deadlines." *Diana Scharf Hunt* "I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it." *Gale Sayers* "The most important thing about goals is having one." *Geoffry F. Abert* "It takes a person with a mission to succeed." *Clarence Thomas* "You are a product of your own brainstorm." *Rosemary K. Steinbaum* "You can't reach your goals without occasionally taking some long shots." *Author Unknown* "Accomplishments will prove to be a journey, not a destination." *Dwight D. Eisenhower* "In achieving your goals, you may run into roadblocks. Don't let that stop you, go around, over, or under. If you are committed to your goal you will find a way." *Catherine Pulsifer* "You can accomplish whatever your mind can see!" *Catherine Pulsifer* "Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there." *Bo Jackson* "Be sure to take the most direct route to your dreams. Never take your eyes off your goal, or you will loose course. Never look back in sorrow, or you will trip." *Joe Brown* "Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal." *Earl Nightingale* "Goals help focus you on areas in both your personal and professional life that are important and meaningful, rather than being guided by what other people want you to be, do, or accomplish." *Catherine Pulsifer* “You have a gold mine when you have a goal in mind.” *Author Unknown* “Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life. “ *Les Brown* “You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.” *General George S. Patton* “The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break.” *Rick Hansen* “First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.” *Epictetus* “It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.” *Og Mandino* “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* "Goals point to where you want to end up, not where you are today." *Catherine Pulsifer* “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” *Zig Ziglar* “Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbour he is making for, no wind is the right wind.” *Seneca* “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” *Henry David Thoreau* “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.” *Langston Hughes* “The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.” *Oliver Wendell Holmes* “By losing your goal, You have lost your way.” *Friedrich Nietzsche* “You have to know what you want to get.” *Gertrude Stein* “My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out.” *Ronald Reagan* You can set a direct course for your future by defining your goals, or, you can take the opposite position and just let the future haphazardly unfold by itself. *Catherine Pulsifer* “You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there.” *Yogi Berra* “People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.” *Earl Nightingale* “It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.” *Brian Tracy* “Shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you'll land amongst the stars..” *Les Brown* “You, too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims and destination.” *W. Clement Stone* “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.” *Hannah More* "The unfortunate aspect about living life without your own goals is that you may very well reach a point in your life where you will wonder, 'what would have happened if I had only done..." *Catherine Pulsifer* “Do it now. You become successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal.” *Unknown* “Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” *Thomas Jefferson* “In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.” *Arnold H. Glasgow* Goals should stretch your abilities, but not to the point of being unrealistic." *Catherine Pulsifer* "In everything we do, our own thoughts can help us succeed, or they can help us fail. Maintain a positive attitude." *Catherine Pulsifer* “There is one quality which 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*

Habits “First we form habits then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they’ll eventually conquer you.” *Dr. Rob Gilbert* "Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes neccessity." *St. Augustine* "Good habits are worth being fanatical about. " *John Irving* "I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time." *Charles Dickens* "The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones." *W. Somerset Maugham* "The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken." *Samuel Johnson* "Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it." *Horace Mann* "Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last." *Chinese Proverb* "Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of." *Author Unknown* "Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny." *Charles Reade* "Niney-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses." *George W. Carver* "It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them." *Benjamin Franklin* "Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones." *Stephen R. Covey* "Old habits die hard." *Proverb* "The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones." *W. Somerset Maugham* "Take control of your destiny. Believe in yourself. Ignore those who try to discourage you. Avoid negative sources, people, places, things and habits. Don't give up and don't give in." *Wanda Carter* "We first make our habits, and then our habits make us." *John Dryden*

Happiness “Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.” *Maurice Materlinck* "Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is." *Maxim Gorky* "Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually." *Stephen Covey* “Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.” *Ralph Waldo Emerson* "Happiness depends upon ourselves." *Aristotle* “Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” *Helen Keller* "If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.” *Josh Billings* "Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see a bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses." *Dale Carnegie* “The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.” *William Cowper* "Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life." *Burton Hillis* "Real happiness comes from inside. Nobody can give it to you." *Sharon Stone* “Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.” *Douglas Jerrold* "Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years." *Ausonius* "Happiness is the art of learning how to get joy from your substance." *Jim Rohn* "It doesn't get any better than this." *Author Unknown* "The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts." *Marcus A. Antoninus* "It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy." *John D. Rockefeller* "Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead." *Scottish Proverb* "Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them." *Leo Tolstoy* "Outer changes always begin with an inner change of attitude." Albert Einstein "Whoever is happy will make others happy, too." *Anne Frank* "Happiness and self-confidence come naturally when you feel yourself moving and progressing toward becoming the very best person you can possibly be." *Brian Tracy* "A mind employed is always happy. This is the true secert, the grand recipe for felicity." *Thomas Jefferson* "Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." *Buddha* "The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does." *James Matthew Barrie* "Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit." *Norman Vincent Peale* "The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet." *J. Robert Oppenheimer*

Procrastination "If and When were planted, and Nothing grew." *Author Unknown* "Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried." *Author Unknown* “You may delay, but time will not.” *Benjamin Franklin* “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* “In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do. The worst thing you can do is nothing.” *Theodore Roosevelt* "The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started." *Dawson Trotman* "Procrastination is the thief of time." *Edward Young* "Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday." *Don Marquis* "You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." *Martin Luther King, Jr.* "Even if you're on the right track - you'll get run over if you just sit there." *Will Rogers* "Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried." *Author Unknown* "Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today." *Benjamin Franklin* "Don't wait for someone to take you under their wing. Find a good wing and climb up underneath it." *Frank C. Bucaro* "Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!" *Donald Gardner* "Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard one makes it impossible." *George H. Lorimer* "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." *Walt Disney* "In delay there lies no plenty." *William Shakespeare* "Stop talking. Start walking." *L.M. Heroux* "Don't wait. The time will never be just right." *Napoleon Hill* "Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations." *Charles Richter* To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as...to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead. *Og Mandino* 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* "He who hesitates is last." Mae West "Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill." *Christopher Parker* "The secret of getting ahead is getting started." *Sally Berger* "We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?" *The Buddha* "Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday and avoiding today." *Wayne Dyer* "When there is a hill to climb, don't think that waiting will make it smaller." *Author Unknown* "Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started." *David Allen* "Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today." *Lord Chesterfield*

Leadership Quotes - Presidents and Politicians "You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot build character by taking away man's initiative. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves." Abraham Lincoln "The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects." Charles De Gaulle "Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other." John F. Kennedy "It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there." Franklin D Roosevelt "A leader is the man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it." Harry S. Truman "People are persuaded by reason, but moved by emotion; [the leader] must both persuade them and move them." Richard M. Nixon "Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all." Dwight D. Eisenhower A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done." Dwight D. Eisenhower "Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done, because he wants to do it." Dwight D. Eisenhower "You don't lead by hitting people over the head.....that's assault, not leadership." Dwight D. Eisenhower Leadership Quotes - Management "Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish. High expectations are the key to everything." Sam Walton "Your job gives you authority. Your behaviour gives you respect." Irwin Federman "Managers do things right. Leaders do the right thing." Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus "Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline carrying it out." Stephen Covey "We're no more likely to be born a good leader than we are to be born a good management accountant. And we know what a bad management accountant can do to an enterprise." Anon "A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group." Russell H Ewing "You manage things; you lead people." Grace Murray Hopper Leadership Quotes - Vision "If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere." Henry Kissinger "Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps." David Lloyd George "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead "The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority." Kenneth Blanchard "Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing." Albert Schweitzer "A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd." James Crook "Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them." Dr. Robert Jarvik Leadership Quotes - Empowerment "The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." Ralph Nadar "As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others." Bill Gates "The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership." Harvey S. Firestone "The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind in others the conviction and will to carry on." Walter Lippman Leadership Quotes - Character "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." Martin Luther King, Jr. "Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader." General George S. Patton Jr. "Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy." Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf "You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do." Eleanor Roosevelt "The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it." Elaine Agather

`Success is finding your purpose, developing it to its full potential` `and sowing seeds for others... John C. Maxwell` `Aim for success not perfection. Remember that fear always lurks behind` `perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right` `to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more` `productive person...Dr. David Burns`

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