Quotes to Motivate and Spark Thought:

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it. – Debbi Fields, found Mrs. Fields Cookies

If you are willing to do only what’s easy, life will be hard, but if you are willing to do what’s hard, life will be easy. – T. Harv Eker

All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. Morarji Desai

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

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity. — Donald A. Adams

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

The road to success runs uphill. - Willie Davis

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. -Samuel Ullman

True happiness is not made in getting something. True happiness is becoming something. This can be done by being committed to lofty goals. We cannot become something without commitment. -Ashton

Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive. Robert H. Schuller

If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission. ~Anonymous

You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have. – Jim Rohn

Rewards go to those who get things done, not to those with the best excuses. – Kevin Ngo

When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them. -Peter McWilliams

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else. – Henry Ward Beecher

Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determination. - Unknown

The hardest skill to acquire in this sport is the one where you compete all out, give it all you have, and you are still getting beat no matter what you do. When you have the killer instinct to fight through that, it is very special. – Eddie Reese

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives. - Denis Waitley

Sometimes in tragedy we find our life’s purpose. The eye sheds a tear to find its focus.–Robert Brault

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

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. – Vidal Sassoon

When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to catch you. ~Lolly Daskal

Do it now. You become successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal. Unknown

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. – Jim Rohn

We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments. -Bulwer

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. William E. Channing

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do. — Eric Hoffer

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. ~Dale Carnegie

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. – Maya Angelou

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently… A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large. -Henry Ford, founder Ford Motor Company

In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are. Max De Pree

If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock. – Claude McDonald

Don’t wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater. – Mary Manin Morrissey

My son is now an ‘entrepreneur’. That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job. – Ted Turner

We seek purpose when we are not in touch with who we really are. When an apple tree discovers who it is, the question ‘what must I do?’ disappears. When you discover who you are (at the deepest place of your being) you will find your purpose. — Colleen-Joy Page

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have. – Reader submitted (I really like this one, thanks Sandiso)

Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it. -Ted Williams

The start is what stops most people. – Don Shula

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher Columbus

Nobody can hurt me without my permission. - Mahatma Gandhi

The moving-van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress. -Louis Kronenberger

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. – Nelson Mandela

The man who is born with a talent which he is meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it. -Johann von Goethe

If you’re good at something, never do it for free. – The Joker

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise. -Cato the Elder, quoted in Plutarch’s Parallel Lives

Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you. – Tony Hsieh, CEO Zappos

You can’t fly a kite unless you go against the wind and have a weight to keep it from turning a somersault. The same with man. No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and is prepared to assume responsibilities. William J.H. Boetcker

You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do. – David Foster Wallace

Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that’s more productive. – Donald Trump

My strength is the strength of ten because my heart is pure. -Tennyson

I want to convey how beautiful it is to close your eyes and dream. And then to open them and make that dream a reality. -Sean Combs (Puff Daddy)

Work until your idols become your rivals. – Unknown

The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do. ~Anonymous

If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that’s all.

We Can’T Help Everyone, But Everyone Can Help Someone. —Ronald Reagan

We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform. – Pete Cashmore, founder and CEO Mashable

If you really want the key to success, start by doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing. Brad Szollose

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

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

Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. – John R. Wooden

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. –Joshua J. Marine

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. – Bill Cosby

The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn’t matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark. —Barbara Hall

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business. – Zig Ziglar

There’s no committee that says, ‘This is the type of person who can change the world–and you can’t.’ Realizing that anyone can do it is the first step. The next step is figuring out how you’re going to do it.- Adora Svitak, Flying Fingers

If you have everything under control, you’re not moving fast enough. – Mario Andretti

Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.

Life is all about up and doing. – Reader submitted

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be. – Reid Hoffman, co-founder LinkedIn

The sterner the discipline, the greater the devotion. ~ Pette Carill

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. Og Mandino

In business, I’ve discovered that my purpose is to do my best to my utmost ability every day. That’s my standard. I learned early in my life that I had high standards. – Donald Trump

Objective judgement, now, at this very moment. Unselfish action, now, at this very moment. Willing acceptance – now, at this very moment – of all external events. That’s all you need. – Marcus Aurelius

I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This enables you to keep your mind focused on your goal and off the many obstacles that will arise when you’re striving to do your best. Kurt Thomas

Fall seven times, stand up eight. – Japanese Proverb

A calm sea does not make a skilled sailor. – Unknown

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital. – Joe Paterno

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds. - Norman Vincent Peale

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year. - Leonardo Da Vinci

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. – Farrah Gray

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame. –Erica Jong

Fall down seven times, get up eight. - Japanese Proverb

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. Jack Kinder

Good things come to those who wait… greater things come to those who get off their ass and do anything to make it happen. – Unknown

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously, that you might as well not have lived at all- In which case you fail by default.

We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon. —Konrad Adenauer

Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear. – Julia Cameron

Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want. – Dan Stanford

No matter how slow you go you are still lapping everyone on the couch. – Unknown

There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? —The Peace Pilgrim

Our great object in time is not to waste our passions and gifts on the things external that we must leave behind, but that we cultivate within us all that we can carry into the eternal progress beyond. -Bulwer

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

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill

Set too many goals and keep adding more goals. Goals have a tendency to be realized all at once. -Mark Victor Hansen

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. - Beverly Sills

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something -- your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. Steve Jobs

The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder–a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you. -Carlyle

A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so. – Mahatma Gandhi

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives life fully is prepared to die at any time. – Mark Twain

We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret. ~Earl Nightingale

Say what you want to say when you have the feeling and the chance. My greatest regrets are the things I did not do, the opportunities missed and the things unsaid. ~ Jim Keller

Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us. -Samuel Johnson

To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them. – Picabo Street

The only limits are, as always, those of vision. – James Broughton

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. Seneca

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing. ~Martha Stewart

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent. – Arnold Schwarzenegger

If you really want something, you can figure out how to make it happen. Cher

It is the whole history of mankind that power lacking the inner strength of self-restraint will be eventually cast down. -Adlai Stevenson

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Thomas A. Edison

Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The NBA is never just a business. It’s always business. It’s always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal. – Mark Cuban

The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. -Longfellow

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen. – Michael Jordan

Fail often so you can succeed sooner. – Tom Kelley, founder Ideo

Fall seven times and stand up eight. –Japanese Proverb

Perseverance allows you to get back on track when you hit a detour. Catherine Pulsifer

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved. -Anne Sullivan

Amazing things rarely happen in your comfort zone. – Unknown

I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying. -Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO Amazon

If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives. – Lemony Snicket, The Ersatz Elevator

An achievement is bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement. Albert Camus

Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor. – John Ciardi

If you’re born poor, it’s not your mistake. But if you die poor, it’s your mistake. – Bill Gates

Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. Jonathan Swift

You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life. -James G. Bilkey

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. – Satchel Paige

Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me. – Arianna Huffington, president and editor in chief The Huffington Post Media Group

Don’t live your fears, live your dreams.

Continue to invest in your personal development. Expand your occupational horizons by constant study….Look to your present job as a stepping-stone along your career path. Take time to think. The dimensions of most jobs are constrained only by the mind of the uncreative worker. I like what one businessman counseled: If at first you do succeed, try something harder! -J. Richard Clarke

Failure is success if we learn from it. – Malcolm Forbes

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it. – Washington Irving

The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.–Anthony Robbins

Do things that count, but don’t count the things you do.

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

Life is too short to wait.

Saying no to loud people gives you the resources to say yes to important opportunities. – Seth Godin

Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can.–Arthur Ashe

This paper will no doubt be found interesting by those who take an interest in it - John Dalton

The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is likely to neither make money nor find much fun in life. – Charles M. Schwab

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. ― Aldous Huxley

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness. - Aristotle

The only way around is through. – Robert Frost

The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective. ~ Al Neuharth

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting. J. G. Holland

The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else. – Sam Walton

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

Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners. – Robert T. Kiyosaki

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. ~Margaret Thatcher

When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue. -Josh James, co-founder and CEO Omniture, founder and CEO Domo

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. - Greg Anderson

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. – John Quincy Adams

All great achievements require time. — Maya Angelou

Nothing Is Impossible, The Word Itself Says I’M Possible! —Audrey Hepburn

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

Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy. Jimmy Spithill

One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now. – Paulo Coelho

Vision doesn’t usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others. – Dr. Michael Norwood

The Possible’s slow fuse is lit by the imagination. -Emily Dickinson

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

You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out. Steve Jobs

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. John Quincy Adams

I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. –Benjamin Franklin

We will either find a way, or make one! Hannibal

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. -Walter Bagehot

Nothing with power is working against me. Everything with power is working for me. At the center of my being is that which cannot be intimidated, threatened, or oppressed.–T.K. Coleman

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. – Norman Schwarzkopf

If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one. -John Galsworthy

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reason or principle contain it or stand against it. ~ Jane Smiley

Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar. Orrin Woodward

To the degree we’re not living our dreams; our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves. – Peter McWilliams

It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. – Bill Gates

Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals. Aristotle

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan. John F. Kennedy

At one point in your life, you’ll have the thing you want or the reasons why you don’t. – Andy Roddick

Your income is directly related to your philosophy, NOT the economy. – Jim Rohn

Openly share and talk to people about your idea. Use their lack of interest or doubt to fuel your motivation to make it happen.

If you argue for your limitations, sure enough, they’re yours. – Rikki Rogers

Work so hard that one day your signature will be called an autograph. – Unknown

Success in life is a matter not so much of talent or opportunity as of concentration and perseverance. -C.W. Wendte

For maximum attention, nothing beats a good mistake. – Unknown

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. John C. Maxwell

Change your thoughts and you change your world. –Norman Vincent Peale

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. – William B. Sprague

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety–nine percent perspiration. – Thomas A. Edison

Lean in, speak out, have a voice in your organization, and never use the word 'sorry.' -Trish Bertuzzi

There is no security on the earth, there is only opportunity. – General Douglas MacArthur

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were. – David Rockefeller

Don’t let others define you. Don’t let the past confine you. Take charge of your life with confidence and determination and there are no limits on what you can do or be. – Michael Josephson

Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else's success? Bill Walton

I don’t want to die without any scars. – Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. – Dwight Eisenhower

The only way to win is to fight on the side of your adversaries. Francis Picabia

Goals determine what you’re going to be. Julius Erving

If you are not doing good with what little you have, depend upon it the more money you get the more selfish you would become…If your real desire is to do good, there is no need to wait for money before you do it. -James Allen

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Lao Tzu

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. Abraham Lincoln

Show me the man you honor and I will know what kind of man you are. Thomas John Carlisle

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

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. – Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. –Helen Keller

The goal of childhood is to become an individual; the goal of adulthood is to give that individuality away. The task of childhood is to separate; the task of adulthood is to connect. —James W. Jones

You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there. Yogi Berra

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. ~ Harry Truman

Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that. – Anthony Volodkin, founder Hype Machine

There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win. Les Brown

Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other. —

Good is not good when better is expected. – Vin Scully

We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their actions. – Stephen M.R. Covey

I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance? -Jill Konrath

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. -John D. Rockefeller

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. –Maya Angelou

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success. -T.T. Munger

The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast, well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful; success treads on the heels of every right effort. -S. Smiles

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

Show me a person who never made a mistake, and I will show you a person who never did anything. – William Rosenberg, founder Dunkin’ Donuts

Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well. - Unknown

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. ~Anonymous

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

If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours. – Ray Kroc

When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I am out there to win. – Joe Frazier

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard. – Guy Kawasaki, co-founder Alltop

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it. – George Halas

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Thomas Jefferson

A determined person will do more with a pen and paper, than a lazy person will accomplish with a personal computer. Catherine Pulsifer

Do just once what others say you can’t do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again. – Steve Jobs

Learn to appreciate what you have, before time makes you appreciate what you had. – Denis Waitley

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it. ~Henry Ford

Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and start being positive about what could go right.

None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are. – Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

If you can accept losing you can't win. If you can walk you can run. No one is ever hurt. Hurt is in your mind. Vince Lombardi

One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project. Denis Waitley

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become. - Oprah Winfrey

It’s silly to try to escape other people’s faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own. – Marcus Aurelius

The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders. ~ Vince Lombardi

Man is what he believes – Anton Chekov.

If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents- start charging for it. ~Kim Garst

Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work. - Oprah Winfrey

Fear doesn’t shut you down; it wakes you up. – Veronica Roth, Divergent

The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer’s place. – Orison Swett Marden

It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others. – Robert Fritz

If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all. - Obama

There are only two options regarding commitment. You’re either IN or you’re OUT. There is no such thing as life in-between. – Pat Riley

Potential is interesting. Performance is everything. – Unknown

What we dwell on is who we become. -Oprah Winfrey

Anger kills logical thinking and logical thinking kills anger… the choice is yours. – Ketan Shah

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: Not going all the way and not starting. – Buddha

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up. Norman Vincent Peale

There may be people that have more talent than you, but theres no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do. – Derek Jeter

I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become. ~ Carl Jung

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

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from. – Cormac McCarthy, No Country For Old Men

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane. – Philip K. Dick, Valis

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it. – Sandy Koufax

Success is … knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others. –John C. Maxwell

Get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors. – Chris Dixon, co-founder and CEO Hunch

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -Kurt Vonnegut

Although I wanted my players to work to win, I tried to convince them they had always won when they had done their best. John Wooden

Victory goes to the player who makes the next–to–last mistake. – Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower

Problems can’t stop you. Most of all, other people can’t stop you. The only one who can stop you, is YOU. – Jeffery Gitomer

Life is trying things to see if they work Ray Bradbury

Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. – Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist

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 Safe Harbor, Catch The Trade Winds In Your Sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. —Mark Twain

It isn’t hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough is being good every day. ~ Willie Mays

It’s how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success. – Charlotte Whitton

A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others so that they may have the strength to stand on their own. Beth Revis

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. – Theodore Roosevelt

Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect. – Jack Dorsey, founder Twitter

We have no choice of what color we’re born or who our parents are or whether we’re rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we’re here. – Steve Jobs

Two things define you. Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything. – Unknown

Dead last is greater than did not finish which trumps did not start. – Confucius

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. Walter Elliott

The best way out is always through. – Robert Frost

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear. Mark Twain

Do the work others aren’t willing to do, and you’ll get the things others will never have. – Anonymous

If you worry about yesterday’s failures, then today’s successes will be few. Anonymous

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. Peter F. Drucker

Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds. – Larry Bird

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you. – Arnold Palmer

You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take – Wayne Gretzky

There is no shame in having fallen. Nor any shame in being born into a lowly estate. There is only shame in not struggling to rise. And also shame for not wishing to attain the better. Or not dreaming about it and praying for it. -Samuel Amalu

Do first things first, and second things not at all.

Enduring habits I hate…. Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.

Trying is winning in the moment. -Dan Waldschmidt

There is no such thing as failure, only results! – Anthony Robbins

The person who says something is impossible should not interrupt the person who is doing it.

Replace the word "problem" with the word "opportunity" in all your thoughts. - Matthew Keith Groves

Fall down seven times and stand up eight. -Proverb

What do do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it. – Dean Smith

A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn’t particularly feel like it. – Alistair Cooke

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand

It is never too late to be wise. – Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind. – Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company – Booker T. Washington

Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it’s safe or certain. ~Anonymous

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. – Unknown

All right Mister, let me tell you what winning means... you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else. Vince Lombardi

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event. Brian Tracy

Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission. -Zig Ziglar

Death is not the greatest loss in life; the greatest loss is what dies inside while you’re still alive.

For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind. - Dale Carnegie

Somewhere behind the athlete you’ve become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back… play for her. – Mia Hamm

Do it or not. There is no try. Yoda

You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures. Charles C. Noble

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

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle

Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out. ~John Wooden

Be prepared to either reap the rewards or live with the consequences of what you deem acceptable of yourself. – Kevin Ngo

I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. - Abraham Lincoln

You are not your resume, you are your work. – Seth Godin

Progress has little to do with speed, but much to do with direction. Unknown

Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things. —Albert Einstein

Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there. – Bo Jackson

Each day can be one of triumph if you keep up your interests. -George Adams

Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving. – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell. –Lisa Stone, co-founder and CEO BlogHer

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. – Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

Don’t play games that you don’t understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them. – Tony Hsieh, CEO Zappos

I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big. – Donald Trump

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need. — Jerry Gillies

Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you. -Mark Cuban

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. — Malcolm Forbes

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work. ~Thomas J. Watson

The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. – Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It’s through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we’ve always mapped our path at Dell. There’s always an opportunity to make a difference. – Michael Dell

You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result. – Gandhi

There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them. – Seth Godin

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better. Jim Rohn

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. –Anais Nin

I don’t pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages. – Robert Bosch

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone. Gertrude Stein

Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears. – Laird Hamilton

What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle, and giving 110 percent all the time. – Don Zimmer

It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. –Mae Jemison

The surest cure for loneliness, the quickest way to happiness, is found in this, a simple creed: Go serve someone in greater need. -W Ward

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital. -Daniel Webster (1782-1852)

It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. –Abraham Lincoln

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning. – Gandhi

Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian. Shari R. Barr

Low self-confidence isn’t a life sentence. Self-confidence can be learned, practiced, and mastered–just like any other skill. Once you master it, everything in your life will change for the better. – Barrie Davenport

The secret to living the life of your dreams is to start living the life of your dreams today, in every little way you possibly can. – Mike Dooley

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I didn’t believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on the field and be prepared to play a good game. – Tom Landry

You’ve got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference. – Chris Evert

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Wisdom equals knowledge plus courage. You have to not only know what to do and when to do it, but you have to also be brave enough to follow through. Jarod Kintz

If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got. ~Anonymous

A mind once stretched by a new idea never returns to its original dimensions. -Oliver Wendell Holmes

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. ~George Bernard Shaw

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. – Maxwell Maltz

Beware of any enterprise requiring new clothes. – Henry Thoreau

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

Whatever happens to you, don’t fall in despair. Even if all the doors are closed, a secret path will be there for you that no one knows. You can’t see it yet but so many paradises are at the end of this path…Be grateful! It is easy to thank after obtaining what you want, thank before having what you want.–Rumi

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat. -Napoleon Hill

Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing it is stupid – Einstein

Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections. – Unkown

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. – Coco Chanel

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it. – Ronnie Lott

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. – André Gide, Autumn Leaves

Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy. – Robert Anthony

People are definitely a company’s greatest asset. It doesn’t make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps. – Mary Kay Ash

Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker. – Seth Godin

The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old. -William James

Stay self-funded as long as possible. – Garrett Camp, founder Expa, Uber and StumbleUpon

The No. 1 reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors. Napoleon Hill

You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself to be. – Lou Holtz

Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records. – William A. Ward

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don’t quit. – Conrad Hilton

Whatever you are willing to put up with is exactly what you will have. —Anonymous

If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything. Tom Rath

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

Happiness is not something readymade.  It comes from your own actions. –Dalai Lama

Some people develop a wish bone where their back bone should be. ~ Unknown

My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had — everyday I’m learning something new. -Richard Branson, founder Virgin Group

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto. – W. Clement Stone

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. –Bob Dylan

If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done. – Thomas Jefferson

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed. – Richard B. Sheridan

No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist.~ Anonymous

Success is...knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others. ~ John C. Maxwell

Not failure, but low aim, is crime. -J.R. Lowell

Everything is hard before it is easy. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says ‘Go!’ – a leader says, ‘Let’s go!’. -E.M Kelly, U.S Army

When people undermine your dreams, predict your doom, or criticize you remember, they’re telling you their story, not yours.–Cynthia Occelli

Don’t let anyone hold you down. Rise up against your fears, doubts, and inhibitions. Sometimes, it’s in our darkest hours that we find out what we’re really made of. Stand up, take charge, and fight for the life that you want. – Kevin Ngo

Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try. – Jack Canfield

You cannot change the outer event, so you must change the inner experience. – Neal Donald Walsch

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

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. – Bruce Lee

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

Ambition is the spur that makes man struggle with destiny. It is heaven’s own incentive to make purpose great and achievement greater. -Donald G. Mitchell

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives. – Tony Robbins

Whether it’s Google or Apple or free software, we’ve got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes. – Bill Gates

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

There is a certain cowardice, a certain weakness, rather, among respectable folk. Only brigands are convinced–of what? That they must succeed. And so they do succeed. -Charles Baudelaire

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving. Oliver Wendell Holmes

I Would Rather Die Of Passion Than Of Boredom. —Vincent Van Gogh

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it. 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

Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another. John C. Maxwell

Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible. – Frank L. Gaines

Be aware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship. – Benjamin Franklin

The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going. Ralph Waldo Emereson

Long-range planning works best in the short term. – Doug Evelyn

The essential question is not, How busy are you?but What are you busy at? – Oprah Winfrey

Pursue, keep up with, circle round and round your life, as a dog does his master’s chaise. Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still. -Thoreau

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better. – Pat Riley

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest. – Chanakya

We become what we think about all day long. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but to be ambitious of titles, place, ceremonial respects, and civil pageantry, is as vain and little as the things are which we court. -Sir P. Sidney

Not to be occupied and not to exist amount to the same thing. -Voltaire

Don’t count the days, make the days count. – Muhammad Ali

It ain’t over till it’s over. – Yogi Berra

People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want. – Seth Godin

Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn. — John Maxwell

The things we fear the most in organizations- fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances – are the primary sources of creativity. – Margaret Wheatley, management consultant

In a battle between two ideas, the best one doesn't necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it. Seth Godin

Make sure that your actions and behaviors live up to and reflect the words and ideas, promises and commitments that come out of your mouth. – Mildred Taylor

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved. - William Jennings Bryan

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. – Leonardo da Vinci

There isn't a ruler, a yardstick or a measuring tape in the entire world long enough to compute the strength and capabilities inside you. - Paul J. Meyer

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going. – Brian Tracy

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully. – Tryon Edwards

Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. David Joseph Schwartz

Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.

We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. –Marie Curie

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. –Gloria Steinem

THE POWER OF A COMPELLING CAUSE RESTS IN THE SOUL OF ITS CREATOR, because a cause springs from the soul. It is a spiritual statement from one soul that cannot be the result of many. It comes from a deep place of knowing, some conviction that a richly imagined future could in some way, dramatically and positively, change the world. -Lance Secretan, author Inspirational Leadership

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day

Identify your problems, but give your power and energy to solutions. – Tony Robbins

Behind every successful person there’s a lot of unsuccessful years. – Unknown

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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. –Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined. – Unknown

Never consider yourself the cause of the results of your activities, and never be attached to not doing your duty. – Gita

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself. Robert E. Lee

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.' – Unknown

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~Anonymous

A man should never neglect his family for business. – Walt Disney

Rather become a man of value. – Albert Einstein

People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going. – Earl Nightingale

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.- Aristotle

If you’re going through hell, keep going. – Winston Churchill

Beaten paths are for beaten men. -Eric Johnston

Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life. Les Brown

Opportunities don’t happen, you create them. ~Chris Grosser

Sometimes life knocks you on your ass…get up! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them. Steve Maraboli

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men. Dr. Thomas Fuller

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. – Bruce Lee

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.-Stephen Covey

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 will tend to take care of themselves. - Dale Carnegie

An entire sea of water can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of the world can’t put you down unless you allow it to get inside you. – Unknown

Deep within man dwell these slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action. -Orison Marden

A quitter never wins, and a winner never quits

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently. – Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO Berkshire Hathaway

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. – Confucius

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. –Confucius

Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more. – Oscar Wilde

Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings. -Ralph Blum

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

Being number two sucks. - Andre Agassi

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business. – J. Paul Getty

If you’ve got it. use it. If you don’t got it, then get it! – Reader submitted

Life has two rules: #1. Never quit #2. always remember rule # 1. – Unknown

The most important single ingredient in the formula for success is the knack of getting along with people. - Theodore Roosevelt

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. ~Herman Melville

I don’t regret the things I’ve done, I regret the things I didn’t do when I had the chance. – Unknown

If You’Re Offered A Seat On A Rocket Ship, Don’T Ask What Seat! Just Get On. —Sheryl Sandberg

Opportunities multiply as they are seized. - Sun Tzu

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. – George Bernard Shaw

In life, it’s not the genetic guy who wins or the guy with the most potential who wins; it’s the person with the greatest perseverance who wins. Always be willing to get up and go at it again and again. That’s the guy who has his hands raised later in life. That’s the guy you guys need to be. – Greg Plitt

Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t 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 will find success. – Thomas J. Watson

Give as few orders as possible, his father had told him once long ago. Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject. Frank Herbert (from Dune)

A consultant is someone who takes the watch off your wrist and tells you the time. – Unknown

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’ – Brian Tracy

The purpose of a business is to create a customer who creates customers. – Shiv Singh

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. – Kevin Ngo

You gotta get out there, take risks, put in the work, and not be afraid to fail. The longer you wait, the less opportunities you’ll have to try again if you do fail. The longer you put off pursuing your dreams, the less time you’ll have to enjoy your success if you succeed. Time doesn’t stop for any of us. – Kevin Ngo

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

Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. –Confucius

An individual who doesn’t consciously select his goals is not really in control of his life. He is controlled. Without really knowing it, he is controlled by goals imposed by outside pressures (the expectation of other), or by habits (procrastination), or by desires (the longing to be honored and admired) and so on. -??

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice. - Wayne Dyer

If you would like to know the value of money, try to borrow some. – Benjamin Franklin

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

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. – Unknown

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. William Arthur Ward

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. – Richard Bach

You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills. – Jim Rohn

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly. – Proverb

There is no royal, flower-strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it. For if I have accomplished anything in life, it is because I have been willing to work hard. – C.J. Walker

Make your team feel respected, empowered and genuinely excited about the company’s mission. –Tim Westergen, Pandora Founder

Each day is a new life. Seize it. Live it. – David Guy Powers

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. – Douglas MacArthur

Happiness is the way. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Many of the problems in life are because of two reasons: We act without thinking or we keep thinking without acting. – Unknown

The most important thing about goals is having one. Geoffry F. Abert

If you can’t excel with talent, triumph with effort. – Dave Weinbaum

Never stop. One stops as soon as something is about to happen. Peter Brock

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets people to do the greatest things. Ronald Reagan

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

Make each day your masterpiece. – John Wooden

Man does not drift into goodness…the chance port of an aimless voyage. He must fight ever for his destination. -William George Jordan

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. -Mark Twain

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it. -Jim Rohn

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

Never let your memories be greater than your dreams. -Doug Ivester

Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart. – Ancient Indian Proverb

Life is strange. Every so often a good man wins. Frank Dane

It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion. -Southey

You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity! But I made it! Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them! – C.J. Walker

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. ~Anonymous

Ive learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success. – Jack Welch, chairman and CEO General Electric

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation. -W. Somerset Maugham

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. – Winston Churchill

If you do not go after go after what you want, you will never have it. If you do not ask, the answer will always be NO. If you do not step forward, you will always be in the same place.

When you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while. – Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do. – Roy L. Smith

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. –Babe Ruth

I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. ~Diane Ackerman

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

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. -Bruce Barton

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. ~Maya Angelou

If people are not laughing at your goals, your goals are too small. – Azim Premji

It takes more than capital to swing business. You’ve got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by — Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics. – Ren Mulford Jr.

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. —Roger Babson

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. – Henry Ford

Numbing the pain for a while will only make it worse when you finally feel it. — Albus Dumbledore

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. – Harold Geneen

Eighty percent of success is showing up. - Woody Allen

Give birth to yourself. –Kelly Cutrone

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. – E. E. Cummings

Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it. Greg Anderson

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein

Does everyone have a new years resolution? I do, mine is to never change for anyone! Sara Dalton

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. –Chinese Proverb

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

Many of the things you can count, don’t count. Many of the things you can´t count, really count. ~ Albert Einstein

Dream big and dare to fail. –Norman Vaughan

Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished. -Confucius

Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. – James Cash Penney

The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning. – Pele

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments. Henry Ward Beecher

Success is never wondering what if. Karrie Huffman

Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t. – Leonard Rubino

Shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you’ll land amongst the stars. Les Brown

The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand. —Irene C. Kassorla

Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain. – Vivian Greene

With patience you can even cook a stone. (One of the best quotes to live by)

To achieve happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal. Earl Nightingale

Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.

From nobody to upstart. From upstart to contender. From contender to winner. From winner to champion. From champion to Dynasty. Pat Riley

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. Henry Ford

Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service & character. -W Ward

Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true. – Unknown

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. John Maxwell

So many things are possible just as long as you don’t know they’re impossible. – Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

People are best convinced by things they themselves discover. – Ben Franklin

The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach. - Benjamin Mays

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reach, don’t adjust the goals; adjust the action steps. – Confucius

In the private sanctuary of one’s own conscience lies that spirit, that determination to cast off the old person and to measure up to the stature of true potential. -Monson

Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. – Michael Jordan

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

Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow – after you have done your best to achieve success today. – Gandhi

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, executive, head coach, player NFL

Life isn't about getting and having, it's about giving and being. –Kevin Kruse

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. - Theodore Roosevelt

If any man seek greatness let him forget greatness and seek for truth; then he will find both. -Horace Mann

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. – Henry Ford

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so. Charles De Gaulle

The only way to be number one is to be number one.

Empower yourself and realize the importance of contributing to the world by living your talent. Work on what you love. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. – Catharina Bruns, Founder WorkIsNotaJob

The problem with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat. – Lilly Tomlin

If you fail to prepare, you’re prepared to fail. – Mark Spitz

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

There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever. Alfred Hitchcock

It Is During Our Darkest Moments That We Must Focus To See The Light. —Aristotle Onassis

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion. B. C. Forbes

Get busy living or get busy dying. – from the The Shawshank Redemption”

A winner loses more often than losers.

If you want to be an entrepreneur, its not a job, it’s a lifestyle. It defines you. Forget about vacations, about going home at 6pm – last thing at night you’ll send emails, first thing in the morning you’ll read emails, and you’’ wake up in the middle of the night. But its hugely rewarding as you’re fulfilling something for yourself.

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle  wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will  be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the  slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter whether  you are a Lion or a Gazelle… when the sun comes up, you’d better be  running. – Christopher McDougall

By losing your goal, you have lost your way. Friedrich Nietzsche

When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say ‘wow, that was an adventure,’ not ‘wow, I sure felt safe.’Tom Preston-Werner, Github co-founder – Tom Preston-Werner, co-founder Github

You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation. – Homer Rice

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see farther. – J. P. Morgan

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging. – Hank Aaron

Believe in possibilities. Believe in human potential. Believe in yourself and you’ll have the power to change your fate. – Napoleon Hill

People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives. — Stedman Graham 

The mind, grappling with great aims and wrestling with mighty impediments, grows by a certain necessity to the stature of greatness. -Bryant

Life has no remote. Get up and change it yourself. – Mark A. Cooper

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. -William James

Win If You Can, Lose If You Must, But NEVER QUIT! – Cameron Trammell

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future. – Heraclitus

Anyone who has ever made anything of importance was disciplined. — Andrew Hendrixson

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

Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do. – John Wooden

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker

The noblest search is the search for excellence – Lyndon B. Johnson

Every accomplishment starts with a decision to try. – Unknown

You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself. – Larry Brown

A man only learns in 2 ways, one by reading and the other by association with smarter people. - Will Rogers

You can do anything, but you can’t do everything. – David Allen

Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as you mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve. Mary Kay Ash

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. – James Thurber

Everything started as nothing. – Ben Weissenstein, founder and CEO The Entitled Group

So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard. – Caterina Fake, co-founder Flickr

If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat. – Herschel Walker

Wisdom is knowing. Skill is know how to do it. Virtue is doing it. - David Starr Jordan

I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making. – B.C. Forbes

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. - Obama

You never regret being kind. Nicole Shepherd

The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones. Brandon Sanderson

To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like. Mike Gafka

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle

Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can. Lowell Thomas

Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow. – Helen Keller

Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman. – George Soros

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble. - George Washington

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked. – Warren Buffett

Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality.

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head. – Emil Zatopek

Triumphs without difficulties are empty. Indeed, it is difficulties that make the triumph. It is no feat to travel the smooth road. Unknown

The secret of success is consistency of purpose. -Benjamin Disraeli

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

A goal is a dream with a deadline. -Napolean Hill

Thinking will not overcome fear, but action will. – Christian D. Larson

Do one thing everyday that scares you. – Eleanor Roosevelt

The five S’s of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit. – Ken Doherty

Life is a journey, its not a race. Walk through it. – Reader submitted

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another, and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. -James Barrie

What defines us is how well we rise after falling. – Unknown

Don’T Judge Each Day By The Harvest You Reap But By The Seeds That You Plant. —Robert Louis Stevenson

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

You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want. - Zig Ziglar

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas Edison

Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off. Colin Powell

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. - David Frost

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

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

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.’ —Mark Twain

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm. – Thomas J. Watson

Your attitude not your aptitude will determine your altitude. ~ Zig Ziglar

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches. – Napoleon Hill

Successful people are the ones who are breaking the rules. – Seth Godin

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

Without the right work ethics your business will never thrive and grow.

If you don’t have confidence, you’ll always find a way not to win. – Carl Lewis

I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn’t give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you. – Harrison Ford

Those who wish to sing, always find a song.

Success is the sum of small efforts– repeated day in and day out. – Robert Collier

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

Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me. – Cal Ripken Jr.

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. – Carl Bard

Learn as if you were to live forever.― Mahatma Gandhi

There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again. Vince Lombardi

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then. – Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. -Napolean Hill

Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame. — Alexander the Great

I Alone Cannot Change The World, But I Can Cast A Stone Across The Water To Create Many Ripples. —Mother Teresa

If you hate waking up on Saturday’s, change your friends. If you hate waking up on Monday’s, change your job – Unknown

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you. – Tony Robbins

Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough . -Benjamin Franklin

A moment of patience in a moment of anger prevents a thousand moments of regret. – Chinese proverb

This world is but a canvas to our imaginations. - Henry David Thoreau

To be good or bad doesn’t count: life out in this world doesn’t depend on that. It depends on a relation of forces based on violence. And survival is violence. You’ll wear leather shoes because someone has killed a cow and skinned it to make leather.  – Unknown

Take risks: If you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise. – Unknown

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. –Stephen Covey

The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers. – John Egan

If it’s important to you, you’ll find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse. – Jim Rohn

The number of followers you have does not make you better than anyone else. Hitler had millions, Jesus had 12 – Unknown

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others. – Tony Robbins

Really it comes down to your philosophy. Do you want to play it safe and be good or do you want to take a chance and be great? – Jimmy J

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. - Stephen Covey

100% of employees are people. If you don’t understand people, you don’t understand business. – Simon Sinek

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist. -Gail Sheehy

I hear: I forget / I see: I remember / I do: I understand - Chinese Proverb

Opportunities are usually disguised by hard work, so most people don’t recognize them. -Ann Landers

Work is as much a necessity to man as eating and sleeping. Even those who do nothing that can be called work still imagine they are doing something. The world has not a man who is an idler in his own eyes. -W. Humboldt

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.  – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two – common sense and perseverance. Owen Feltham

Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. – Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle

Happiness and success in life are not the result of what we have, but rather of how we live. What we do with the things we have makes the biggest difference in the quality of life. – Jim Rohn

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. -Napoleon Hill

Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do. With such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling. - Van Gogh

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. – Aristotle

Therefore the skilful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field. Sun Tzu

They laugh at me because I’m different, I laugh at them because they’re all the same.

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. – Harriet Tubman

Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life. ~Dr. APJ Kalam

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. – Jim Rohn

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. Machiavelli.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. -George S. Patton

I can’t understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I’m frightened by old ones. – John Cage

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

If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all. – John Green, Paper Towns

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. J.P. Morgan

A great mind may change its objects, but it cannot relinquish them; it must have something to pursue; variety is its relaxation, and amusement its repose. -Colton

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. Maya Angelou

Don’t be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities and don’t let the bastards get you down. – Michael Bloomberg, founder Bloomberg L.P.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. ~ Ambrose Bierce

If it doesn’t feel right, don’t do it. That is the lesson, and that lesson alone will save you a lot of grief. —Oprah Winfrey

Work hard and become a leader; be lazy and become a slave. – Unknown

Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way. Ronald Reagan

To win without risk is to triumph without glory. – Pierre Corneille

You were born an original. Don’t die a copy. —John Mason Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves? —Friedrich Nietzsche

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.

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

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’ – Muhammad Ali

The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The truly dangerous thing is asking the wrong question. – Peter Drucker

When you’ve got something to prove, there’s nothing greater than a challenge. – Terry Bradshaw

The principle is competing against yourself. It’s about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before. – Steve Young

You can’t use up creativity.  The more you use, the more you have. –Maya Angelou

Data beats emotions. – Sean Rad, founder Adly and Tinder

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile. - Gary Ryan Blair

Obstacles can’t stop you. Problems can’t stop you. Most of all, other people can’t stop you. The only one who can stop you, is YOU. – Jeffery Gitomer

For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few. Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy. – Bill O’ Reilly

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. George Patton

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner. ― Lao Tzu

You’ve got what it takes, but it will take everything you’ve got. – Unknown

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

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.― Paulo Coelho

Perhaps the surest test of an individual’s integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect. -Monson

Life is not discovery of fate; it is continuous creation of future, through choices of thoughts, feelings and actions in the present. —Sanjay Sahay

Being able to touch so many people through my businesses, and make money while doing it, is a huge blessing. – Magic Johnson

I never left the field saying I could have done more to get ready and that gives me piece of mind. – Peyton Manning

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

A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit. John Maxwell

I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. – Henry Ford

It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything. – Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. –Paulo Coelho, Brida

Every time you stay out late; every time you sleep in; every time you miss a workout; every time you don’t give 100%… you make it that much easier for me to beat you. – William James

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

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. Henry David Thoreau

Nothing great is lightly won, nothing won is lost. Every good deed that's nobly done will always repay the cost.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life– think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. – Swami Vivekananda

Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end. – John Lennon

Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes. - Kenneth Hildebrand

You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins. – Jim Stovall

Life is short, live it. Love is rare, grab it. Anger is bad, dump it. Fear is awful, face it. Memories are sweet, cherish them- Unknown

Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth. -Julie Andrews

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

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

Never let a bad day make you feel like you have a bad life.

There is more in us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps, for the rest of our lives, we will be unwilling to settle for less. —Kurt Hahn

Hope for the best, expect the worst — and take what comes.”’  – Unknown

You can have everything you want in life if you just help enough people get what they want in life. – Zig Ziglar

Some people say I have attitude – maybe I do…but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there.  – Venus Williams

Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it. J. Petit Senn

Don’t worry about funding if you don’t need it. Today it’s cheaper to start a business than ever. – Noah Everett, founder Twitpic

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. – Bill Gates

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. -Albert Einstein

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

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals. – Brian Tracy, CEO Brian Tracy International

If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels. – Tennessee Williams, Conversations with Tennessee Williams

I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan

Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts. – Dan Gable

The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world. – Marc Benioff, CEO Salesforce

Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. ~Lolly Daskal

From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face of complacency and cowardice. It is what enables the soldier to die alone, the political prisoner to resist, the singer to sing her song, hardly appreciated, on a side street. —Mark Helprin

You’re the main character of your life’s story. Give your audience not only something to look forward to, but something to be inspired by. – Kevin Ngo

If you are not financially independent by the time you are forty or fifty, it doesn’t mean that you are living in the wrong country or at the wrong time. It simply means that you have the wrong plan. -Jim Rohn

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it. – Wayne Gretzky

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. – Albert Einstein

If you can dream it, you can achieve it. –Zig Ziglar

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong. -Sophocles

Know what you want and make it known. – My mentor

Life is a stage and you get only one performance. Make it a good one.

Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools.. but they must be kept to a minimum. – Jeffrey Immelt

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires. -H.W. Beecher

The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. – Nolan Bushnell

A Truly Rich Man Is One Whose Children Run Into His Arms When His Hands Are Empty. —Unknown

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel. Napoleon Hill

To succeed… You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you. – Tony Dorsett

High expectations are the key to everything. – Sam Walton, founder Walmart

Turn a perceived risk into an asset. – Aaron Patzer, founder Mint

I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

This too shall pass. – Persian Poem

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow. Plutarch

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

The person who doesn’t read is no better off than the person who can’t read. – Unknown

Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow. – Doug Firebaugh

Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential. John Maxwell

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. -Jerome K. Jerome

Entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create. – David Karp, founder and CEO Tumblr

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose--a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. - Mary Shelley

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender. ~ Vince Lombardi

If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now. – Marie Osmond

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.  –Robert Frost

Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown. H. Ross Perot

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. – Voltaire

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face. We must do that which we think we cannot. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

The best career advice to give the young is, find out what you like doing best and get someone else to pay you for doing it. —Katherine Whilehaen

You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do – Dale Carnegie they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. – Sir Winston Churchill

Opportunity is missed by people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. – Albert Einstein

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming. – Richard Branson

In all realms of life, it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential. It’s no different in the financial realm. – Suze Orman

Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. – Albert Einstein

Your dream doesn’t have an expiration date. Take a deep breath and try again.–K T Witten

An obstacle is often a stepping stone. – Prescott

Who likes not his business, his business likes not him. – William Hazlitt

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. – Charlie Jones

Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week’s value out of a year while another gets a full year’s value out of a week. -Charles Richards

It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. – J. K Rowling

Champions keep playing until they get it right. – Billie Jean King

What’s the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable. ~Anonymous

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. –Latin Proverb

It is asked, how can the laboring man find time for self-culture? I answer that an earnest purpose finds time or makes it. It seizes on spare moments and turns fragments to golden account. A man who follows his calling with industry and spirit, and uses his earnings economically, will always have some portion of the day at command. And it is astonishing how fruitful of improvement a short season becomes when eagerly seized and faithfully used. It has often been observed, that those who have the most time at their disposal profit by it the least. A single hour a day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledge. -Channing

Never Give Up - Winston Churchill

We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy. – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Do or do not. There is no try. – Yoda

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. – Mark Twain

The start is what stops most people. – Don Shula

Most people are nice when you finally see them. – Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

There is only one thing which makes a dream impossible to achieve; the fear of failure.–Paulo Coelho

Stick to what’s in front of you—idea, action, utterance. – Marcus Aurelius

To define is to limit. – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. – Mahatma Gandhi

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions. – Albert Einstein

Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has an idea. It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference. – Nolan Bushnell

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realises itself. -Mrs. Jameson

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on. –Sheryl Sandberg

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We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible. C. Malesherbes‘I can’t do it’ never yet accomplished anything; ‘I will try’ has performed wonders. George P. Burnham

If you don’t make the time to work on creating the life you want, you’re eventually going to be forced to spend a LOT of time dealing with a life you DON’T want. – Kevin Ngo (From the Book, Let’s Do This!. Get it on Amazon.com)

Men's best successes come after their disappointments. - Henry Ward Beecher

Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t. – Mary Anne Radmacher

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second. – William James

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. – Eleanor Roosevelt

We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. The greatest tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined. —N. Scott Momaday

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

You don’t have to be great to start but you have to start to be great. – John C. Maxwell

You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them. ~Michael Jordan

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds. -Tryon Edwards

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat. – Lily Tomlin

A true Master does not give up something. A true Master simply sets it aside, as he would do with anything for which he no longer has any use. There are those who say you must overcome your desires. I say you must simply change them. – Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. - Oscar Wilde

I Have Learned Over The Years That When One’S Mind Is Made Up, This Diminishes Fear. —Rosa Parks

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. -Charles Kettering

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate. – Thomas J. Watson

The attitude you have as a parent is what your kids will learn from more than what you tell them. They don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are. – Jim Henson

Above all, don’t lie to yourself. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn’t been asleep. Wilson Mizner

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. – Unknown

To Handle Yourself, Use Your Head; To Handle Others, Use Your Heart. —Eleanor Roosevelt

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes. -John F. Kennedy

Faith held solely is the begining of action. – Reader submitted

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. – Bill Bernbach

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. –Benjamin Franklin

You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough. – Joseph E. Levine

Do not write a check with your tongue that your actions cannot cash. -Maxwell

Flops are a part of life’s menu and I’ve never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses. – Rosalind Russell

Man ought always to have something that he prefers to life; otherwise life itself will seem to him tiresome and void. -Seume

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive. Donald Trump

Life is too complicated not to be orderly. – Martha Stewart

Hire character. Train skill. – Peter Schultz, founder and director GNF

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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 blooming outside our windows today. – James R. Cook

Every year I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing, and which, shirking pain, missed happiness as well. No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime let out all the length of the reins. -Mary Cholmondeley

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you. Denis Waitley

It is always the start that requires the greatest effort. – James Cash Penney, founder and CEO J.C. Penny

If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try. — Seth Godin (again!)

A trophy carries dust. Memories last forever. – Mary Lou Retton

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail. -Woodrow Wilson

Genius is eternal patience. - Michaelangelo

Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. – Aristotle

Clear your mind of can’t!

Most talented players don’t always succeed. Some don’t even make the team. It’s more what’s inside. – Brett Favre

If you learn only methods, you’ll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity. – Charles Dickens

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

Trust yourself, then you will know how to live. —Johann Wolfgang van Goethe

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul. —Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. –Dalai Lama

If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. Andrew Carnegie

We lose ourselves in the things we love; we find ourselves there, too.–Kristin Martz

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. — Henry David Thoreau

Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them. ~Anonymous

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. – Richard Branson

The real person you are is revealed in the moments when you’re certain no other person is watching. When no one is watching, you are driven by what you expect of yourself. – Ralph S. Marston, Jr.

Remember that the horse that finishes a neck ahead wins the race.

Succeeding is one thing. Maintaining that success is another. It is during your success that you are most susceptible to failure. – Unknown

The best revenge is massive success. – Frank Sinatra

Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.–Robert Collier

Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them. Marcus Aurelius

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. –Lao Tzu

The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing it exactly right. ~ Edward C. Simmons

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

Failure is not about insecurity, it’s about lack of execution. – Jeffery Gitomer, business trainer

There are a lot of things that go into creating success. I don’t like to do just the things I like to do. I like to do things that cause the company to succeed. I don’t spend a lot of time doing my favorite activities. – Michael Dell

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. – Benjamin Disraeli

When writing the story of your life, don’t let anyone else hold the pen.

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

All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA. – Reid Hoffman, co-founder LinkedIn

In the end, what we regret most are the chances we never took. – Frasier Krane

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well. – Alan Greenspan

If you’re bored with life — you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things — you don’t have enough goals. Lou Holtz

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

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else. – Les Brown (Live Your Dreams)

Let’s be honest. There’s not a business anywhere that is without problems. Business is complicated and imperfect. Every business everywhere is staffed with imperfect human beings and exists by providing a product or service to other imperfect human beings. – Bob Parsons

There’s lots of bad reasons to start a company. But there’s only one good, legitimate reason, and I think you know what it is: it’s to change the world. – Phil Libin, CEO Evernote

People don’t care how much you know, until they know how much you care about them. – John C. Maxwell

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

If you cannot fly, drive; if you cannot drive, run; if you cannot run, walk; if you cannot walk, crawl; but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects. — Albert Einstein (again!)

We judge of man’s wisdom by his hope. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion. – Abraham Lincoln

Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt

You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground. – Unknown

Your reputation is more important than your paycheck, and your integrity is worth more than your career. – Ryan Freitas, co-founder About.me

Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it. – William Durant

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 alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.-Calvin Coolidge

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.― Mahatma Gandhi

The grass is greener where you water it. — Neil Barringham

The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways, the highest adventure on earth. -Norman Cousins

Reader contributions:

Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect. – Alan Cohen

Smooth seas do not make skilful sailors. African Proverb

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching. – George Van Valkenburg

If you are going to be a champion, you must be willing to pay a greater price. ~ Bud Wilkinson

Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning. ~Robert Kiyosaki

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. – Thomas Watson, Sr.

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

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

You’ve got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough, I can have it. It’s called perseverance. – Lee Iacocca

The thorough man of business knows that only by years of patient, unremitting attention to affairs can he earn his reward, which is the result, not of chance, but of well-devised means for the attainment to ends. -Andrew Carnegie

Great brands are like great stories. And every story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. And our job is to make sure that every chapter of our stories makes sense to the one in front of it and make sense to the one after it. There is no such thing as an overnight success. You have to get up and put your work boots on every single day. – Kevin Plank

Times will change for the better when you change. – Maxwell Maltz

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. – Chinese Proverb

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart. —Pearl S. Buck

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents. -Andrew Carnegie

You just have to pay attention to what people need and what has not been done. – Russell Simmons, found Def Jam Records

Every child is an artist.  The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. –Pablo Picasso

Don’t worry about others doing better than you.  Concentrate on beating your own records every day.  Success is a battle between YOU and YOURSELF only. – Anonymous

The only way to prove that you’re a good sport is to lose. – Ernie Banks

There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows. —John Farrar

The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow – Ingvar Kamprad, founder Ikea

The great successful men of the world have used their imagination. They think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building–steadily building.-Robert Collier

It is not what they take away from you that counts. It’s what you do with what you have left. – John Wooden

One finds limits by pushing them. – Herbert Simon

The only limits for tomorrow are the doubts we have today. –Pittacus Lore, The Power of Six

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

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. – Lance Armstrong

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success. – Dr. Joyce Brothers

Where there’s a will there’s a way. English Proverb

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from. — Seth Godin

You were given this life because you were strong enough to live it. – Unknown

You’ll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success if found in your daily routine. – John C. Maxwell

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. – Steve Jobs, Co-founder, CEO, Chairman Apple Inc.

If you see a bandwagon, it’s too late. – James Goldsmith

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see. Henry David Thoreau

You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. –George Lorimer

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen. – Elbert Hubbard

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Always remember, Son, the best boss is the one who bosses the least. Whether it's cattle, or horses, or men, the least government is the best government. Ralph Moody

When I Was 5 Years Old, My Mother Always Told Me That Happiness Was The Key To Life. When I Went To School, They Asked Me What I Wanted To Be When I Grew Up. I Wrote Down Happy. They Told Me I Didn’T Understand The Assignment, And I Told Them They Didn’T Understand Life. —John Lennon

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance: it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of the pick-ax, or of one impression of the spade with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains are levelled, and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings. -Johnson

When you put together deep knowledge about a subject that intensely matters to you, charisma happens. You gain courage to share your passion, and when you do that, folks follow. Jerry Porras

In life, you get what you put in. Everything comes back around.

We Can Easily Forgive A Child Who Is Afraid Of The Dark; The Real Tragedy Of Life Is When Men Are Afraid Of The Light. —Plato

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. -Norman Ralph Augustine

The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is that you’ll fail ten times for every success.- Adam Horwitz, Mobile Monopoly

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.—Tom Peters

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world. – Joel Barker

A leader is a dealer in hope. Napoleon

Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there’s footprints on the moon.

If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character. -Stephan R. Covey

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. – Laurence Sterne

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade. – Tony Robbins

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. ~Mark Caine

Our greatest battles are that with our own minds. Jameson Frank

Difficult doesn’t mean impossible. It simply means that you have to work hard. – Anonymous

Do more than belong: Participate. Do more than care: Help. Do more than believe: Practice. Do more than be fair: Be Kind. Do more than forgive: Forget. Do more than dream: Work. – William Arthur Ward

If all you can do is crawl, start crawling. – Rumi

Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas. Margaret Thatcher

The winner persistently programs his pluses; the loser mournfully magnifies his minuses.

Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last? -Vernon Howard

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them. Denis Watley

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about. – Dale Carnegie

It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen. – Scott Belsky, co-founder Behance

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

How long should you try? Until. Jim Rohn

Hands that serve are holier than lips that pray. —Sai Baba

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be too cynical. Well, that´s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off the cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. ~ Annie Dillard.

People don’t buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons. – Zig Ziglar

When confronted with iron-will determination, I can see Time, Fate and Circumstance calling a hasty conference and deciding, We might as well let him have his dream. He’s said he’s going to get there or die trying. -Jim Rohn

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. – Mark Twain

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt

If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears. – Simon Sinek

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

Do what you have always done and you'll get what you have always got. Sue Knight

Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve more and live richer lives. -Daniel Pink

There are no great men. Just great challenges which ordinary men, out of necessity, are forced by circumstance to meet. ~ Admiral William Frederick Halsey Jr.

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. -Og Mandino

Leadership is an action, not a position. Donald McGannon

Don’t let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead give to yourself that which empowers you. -Les Brown

It was courage, faith, endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all obstacles that built this bridge. John J. Watson

During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball. – Mickey Mantle

If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out. –Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO Facebook

Your aspirations are your possibilities. -Dr. Samuel Johnson

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

Life doesn’t get better until you get better. – Unknown

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination. – Tommy Lasorda

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. – Bill Cosby

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. -Thomas Jefferson

If you can’t sleep do not count the sheep, worship the Shepherd. – Babsie Burke (reader)

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. – Bill Gates, co-founder Microsoft

The cynic says, One man can’t do anything”. I say, Only one man can do anything.” – John W. Gardner

A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could – Zig Ziglar

Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death. – Seth Godin

Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.― Arnold Schwarzenegger

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success. David Sarnoff

Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts. -Winston Churchill

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise. – Unknown

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

Too many people are thinking the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, when they ought to just water the grass they are standing on. – Jerry Rice

It takes 20 years to become an overnight success. – Eddie Cantor

Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Ronald E. Osborn

Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. ~Theodore N. Vail

Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward. -Victor Kiam

When you see what you’re here for, the world begins to mirror your purpose in a magical way. It’s almost as if you suddenly find yourself on a stage in a play that was written expressly for you. — Betty Sue Flowers

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. –Booker T. Washington

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

The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place. ~Guy Kawasaki

Dream as you will live forever, live as you will die today.

Low self-confidence isn't a life sentence. Self-confidence can be learned, practiced, and mastered-just like any other skill. Once you master it, everything in your life will change for the better. Barrie Davenport

When someone leaves, it’s because someone else is about to arrive. – Paulo Coelho, The Zahir

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. – Albert Einstein

There is a close connection between getting up in the world and getting up in the morning. -Anon.

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.–Roald Dahl

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

Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking. Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading: buying and selling. – Anita Roddick

You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all. – J. Askenberg

Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world. – Anonymous

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. – Bill Gates

I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. – Albert Einstein

You are here to enrich the world and you impoverish yourself if you forget that errand. -Woodrow Wilson

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. - Albert Einstein

It is better by a noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate, than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what may happen. -Herodotus

To think we are able is almost to be so; to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself; earnest resolution has often seemed to have about it almost a savor of omnipotence. -S. Smiles

If you’ve got an idea, start today. There’s no better time than now to get going. That doesn’t mean quit your job and jump into your idea 100% from day one, but there’s always small progress that can be made to start the movement.- Kevin Systrom, Instagram

The best way to predict the future is to create it. – Abraham Lincoln

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. -Zig Ziglar

Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is. Zig Ziglar

If you chase two rabbits, both will escape. – Chinese Proverb

Life is not about ALL the wrong moves you made, Life is about the one right move that made ALL the difference. – James Lockhart

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself, any direction you choose. – Dr. Seuss

You cannot save people, you can just love them. — Anaïs Nin

Great minds have purposes, others have dreams. Washington Irving

The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you. – Bette Midler

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do. – Cass, Lewis

Your life does not get better by chance, but by change. – Jim Rohn

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be. —

How do we keep our inner fire alive? Two things, at minimum, are needed: an ability to appreciate the positives in our life - and a commitment to action. —Nathaniel Branden

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

If you think about that, you’ll do things differently. – Warren Buffett

Our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become. —Barbara Geraci

Why did I want to win? Because I didn’t want to lose! – Max Schmelling

Business in a combination of War and sport.  – Andre Maurois

Ninety percent of the game is half mental. - Yogi Berra

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period. – Lou Holtz

A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t. – Jack Dempsey

Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once. – Drew Houston, co-founder and CEO Dropbox

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 only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. – Arthur C. Clarke

Life is never free of contradictions. - Dr. Manmohan Singh

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know. -Jim Rohn

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. – Pablo Picasso

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must step up the stairs. – Vance Havner

If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all? – Joe Namath

The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. – Captain Jack Sparrow

If you are willing to do more than you are paid to do, eventually you will be paid to do more than you do. Anonymous

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. – Bill Gates

Men are born to succeed, not fail. Henry David Thoreau

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do. Eleanor Roosevelt

Everything happens for a reason, you only need to keep on editing your attitude and gratitude so as to sail through. – Reader submitted

Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it. – Unknown

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. Epictetus

All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time. – Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet In Heaven

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. —Mohandas K. Gandhi

Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability. Patrick Lencioni

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals. -Booker T. Washington

Number one is just to gain a passion for running. To love the morning, to love the trail, to love the pace on the track. And if some kid gets really good at it, that’s cool too. – Pat Tyson

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes. Tony Blair

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love. - Mahatma Gandhi

Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value. – Albert Einstein

Travel far enough, you meet yourself. – David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

Believe in yourself and all that you are, know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle. – Unknown

Because whatever you see can inspire you. — Grace Coddington

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression . -Margaret Fuller

Be humble enough to admit you’re not perfect, but determined enough to strive to be perfect. – Babsie Burke (reader)

The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something. – Seth Godin, founder Squidoo

I’m not afraid... I was BORN for this! —Joan of Arc Whatever you are willing to put up with is exactly what you will have. —Anonymous We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. The greatest tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined.

If you don’t find one, it’s you. – Mark Cuban

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

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. –Chinese Proverb

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

Don’t panic. – Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave–win or lose. – Gordie Howe

Some people dream of great accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them. – Unknown

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

Embrace what you don’t know, especially in the beginning, because what you don’t know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from everybody else. – Sara Blakely, founder SPANX

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The only disability in life is a bad attitude.–Scott Hamilton

Discipline, not desire, determines destiny. – Marilyn Vos Savant

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us. —Helen Keller

Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. -Unknown

If you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level. – Bruce Lee (The Art of Expressing the Human Body) – Richard L. Evans

A year from now you may wish you had started today. – Karen Lamb

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. – Thomas A. Edison

Anyone can do something when they WANT to do it. Really successful people do things when they don’t want to do it. – Dr. Phil

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others…or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist. – Calvin Coolidge

To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek. Alan Cohen

It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters. – Paul Bear Bryant

When you’re riding, only the race in which you’re riding is important. – Bill Shoemaker

We are what we think. - Buddha

Are you a serial idea–starting person? The goal is to be an idea–shipping person. – Seth Godin

If you settle for just anything, you’ll never know what you’re truly worthy of.

Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles, and less than perfect conditions. So what? Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident, and more and more successful. – Mark Victor Hanse

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you’re generally better          off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make.

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. -John D. Rockefeller

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. —Carl Sandburg

You can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets. – Arnold Schwarzenegger

If you wait, all that happens is you get older. – Larry McMurtry

If at first you don’t succeed, you are running about average. – M.H. Alderson

It’s almost always harder to raise capital than you thought it would be, and it always takes longer. So plan for that. -Richard Harroch, Venture Capitalist

The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials. —Confucius

Those who say it can not be done, should not interrupt those doing it. – Chinese Proverb

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well. Abraham Lincoln

There is a fire inside. Sit down beside it. Watch the flames, the ancient, flickering dance of yourself. —John MacEnulty Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. —William Jennings Bryan

You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, Why not? - George Bernard Shaw

In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing. – Theodore Roosevelt

What really matters in a pencil is not its wooden exterior, but the graphite inside. So always pay attention to what is happening inside you. – Paulo Coelho

How far you can go in life is yet to be seen. Don’t let other people’s limited beliefs about what’s possible diminish your potential. – Kevin Ngo

You are never really playing an opponent. You are playing yourself, your own highest standards, and when you reach your limits, that is real joy. – Arthur Ashe

Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier. – Charles F. Kettering

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. – Jimmy Johnson

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right! – Henry Ford

Look well to this day. Yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day. – Francis Gray

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become. – Buddha

Dance as though no one is watching you. Love as though you have never been hurt before. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth. - Souza

The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become. – Amar Dave

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

Every choice before you represents the universe inviting you to remember who you are and what you want. —Alan Cohen

Don’t take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give — with a few exceptions — generalize whatever they did. Don’t over-analyze everything.  I myself have been guilty of over-thinking problems. Just build things and find out if they work. – Ben Silbermann, founder Pinterest

There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. –Roger Staubach

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 E. Allen

There is no education like adversity.

Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities. -Sue Ebaugh

Either take the chance and make achieving your dreams a possibility or don’t, and make living with regret a certainty. – Unknown

All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible. – Orison Swett Marden

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. – Ralph Nader

One of the marks of average people is they are talk oriented. – Brian Tracy

You don’t need to do something with your life, just do something with each day. – Kevin Ngo

If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it — teach yourself to be impatient. ~Gurbaksh Chahal

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. – Babe Ruth

You have exactly one life in which to do everything you’ll ever do. Act accordingly. – Colin Wright

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves. – Thomas Edison

Failure is the best teacher in the world. Winning is a trophy, failing is an education. – Unknown

We are currently not planning on conquering the world. – Sergey Brin

When you win, say nothing, when you lose, say less. – Paul Brown

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

Success comes down to hard work plus passion, over time. If you work really, really hard over a long period of time, it will pay off.- Stanley Tang, eMillions

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong. Ella Fitzgerald

Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you. –Jesus

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habit. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. – Lao Tzu

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. –John Lennon

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. Bruce Feirstein

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

Well-behaved women seldom make history. – Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play. – Mike Singletary

You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate. -Seneca

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous. – Chanakya

Who dares wins. - Winston Churchill

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.  –Booker T. Washington

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. – Walt Disney, founder Disney

If you can’t outplay them, outwork them. – Ben Hogan

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry. -Winston Churchill

Dignity and respect has to do with ... your personal power to make a difference by being true to the best within you and letting that truth shine through your words and actions. — Gail Pursell Elliott

If you don’t have a plan of life, you’ll never have order. -Josemaria Escriva

Power isn't control at all-power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own. Beth Revis

Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not. -Nathaniel Hawthorne

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center. – Kurt Vonnegut

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. – Dale Carnegie

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. Mahatma Gandhi

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. – Carlos Castaneda

As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, THINK BIG.

Even if you are on the right track, You’ll get run over if you just sit there. – Will Rogers

Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take OFF! But if you don’t have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you. -Amelia Earhart

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

I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all. — Leo C. Rosten

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means. – Albert Einstein

How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top. – Yvon Chouinard, founder Patagonia

Obsessed is just a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated. -Russell Warren

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. ~John D. Rockefeller

It is through cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will be derived. -Ralph Charell

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve! -Andrew Carnegie

Leadership, like coaching, is fighting for the hearts and souls of men and getting them to believe in you. – Eddie Robinson

What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone, know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed. –Dave Thomas, founder Wendy’s

Act or accept. – Anonymous

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. ~Anonymous

If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary. ~Jim Rohn

There is little success where there is little laughter. -Andrew Carnegie

You’re never a loser until you quit trying. – Mike Ditka

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. -Arthur Christopher Benson

You become what you believe. –Oprah Winfrey

Become the person who would attract the results you seek. -Jim Cathcart

For every mountain there is a miracle. Robert H. Schuller

Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. Dennis P. Kimbro

Goals are dreams with deadlines. -Diana Scharf Hunt

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

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. Phyllis Bottome

The enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth-persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. – John F. Kennedy

The mind is everything. What you think you become.  –Buddha

I Can’T Change The Direction Of The Wind, But I Can Adjust My Sails To Always Reach My Destination. —Jimmy Dean

Take a look at those two open hands of yours. They are tools with which to serve, make friends, and reach out for the best in life. Open hands open the way to achievement. Put them to work today. -Wilfred A. Patterson

Choosing a goal and sticking to it changes everything. Scott Reed

If you make your goals a priority, you will make the time. – Unknown

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.-Lyndon Johnson

Imaginary walls but real trouble.

When you want success as bad as you want to breathe, then you will be successful. – Eric Thomas

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. – Cyril Northcote Parkinson/Parkinson’s Law.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself. – Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It’s what we do consistently. – Anthony Robbins

Always deliver more than expected. – Larry Page, co-founder Google

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done. – Bruce Lee

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. - Benjamin Franklin.

Wherever life takes you, leave the place shaking, disrupted and trying to imagine what it was like before you came. Be a force for change. For pondering. And re-pondering. For love and the belief in the good of people. Go forth and be a force of the awesome. Do epic, terrifying, unheard of shit. Whatever makes you happy. And drugs. And other bad things. And fall in love. If nothing else, fall in love – Jordan Lejuwaan

All the days that you wake up, you got one job, and that’s to get better every single day.

Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody wants to lift no heavy-ass weights. – Ronnie Coleman

Every big problem was at one time a wee disturbance. - Unknown

A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose – a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve. – John C. Maxwell (Psycho-Cybernetics)

Somebody should tell us right at the start of our lives that we are dying. Then we might live to the limit, every minute of every day. ‘Do it!’ I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows. – Michael Landon

Live life to the fullest because you only get to live it once.

Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish. -Ovid

Before dreaming about the future or marking plans, you need to articulate what you already have going for you – as entrepreneurs do. – Reid Hoffman, co-founder LinkedIn

In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination. – Steve Case, co-founder AOL

Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. – John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

It’s the possibility of failure that makes success meaningful and exciting. – Kevin Ngo

Where you end up doesn’t depend on where you start; it depends on which direction you choose to take from where you currently stand. – Kevin Ngo

I am grateful for all of my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties. – Motivationburst.com

Successful entrepreneurs are givers and not takers of positive energy. ~Anonymous

Begin each day with a grateful heart.

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it. - William Arthur Ward

The moment a man ceases to progress, to grow higher, wider and deeper, then his life becomes stagnant. -Orison S. Marden

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

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet. – Isaac B. Singer

If you’re making mistakes it means you’re out there doing something. – Neil Gaiman, Make Good Art

It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results. -Warren Buffett

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. Ayn Rand

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going. -David Starr Jordan

The path to success is to take massive, determined action. – Tony Robbins

You just can't beat the person who never gives up. -Babe Ruth

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities. Ralph Waldo Emerson

There never was yet a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. -Benjamin Franklin

Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves? —Friedrich Nietzsche

Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it. – C. JoyBell C.

Consensus: the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: 'I stand for consensus?' Margaret Thatcher

Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you. – Dr Phil

A desire can overcome all objections and obstacles. Gunderson

Never tell your problems to anyone… 20% don’t care and the other 80% are glad you have them. – Lou Holtz

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. –Tony Robbins

You must remain focused on your journey to greatness. – Les Brown

A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can’t. Either way a sale is made, the only question is who is gonna close? – Jim Young

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts. – Horace Mann

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.~ Oscar Wilde

The time will pass anyway. — Earl Nightingale

The tiny seed knew that in order to grow, it needed to be dropped in dirt, covered in darkness, struggle to reach the light. – Sandra Kring

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. –Wayne Gretzky

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. –Florence Nightingale

It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it. – John Crowe

A truly wise person will constantly move forward, striving for self-improvement….The joys of happiness can only be realized by living lofty principles. -Ashton

Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer. – Dan Brown, Digital Fortress

The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. ~Francis Chan

It takes great courage to faithfully follow what we know to be true. —Sara E. Anderson

Winners never quit, and quitters never win. Vince Lombardi

Not all those who wander are lost. – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. – Truman Capote

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them -- a desire, a dream, a vision. Muhammad Ali

Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. - Arthur Ashe Jr

I discovered a long time ago that if I helped enough people get what they wanted, I would always get what I wanted and I would never have to worry. – Tony Robbins

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power. Charles Simmons

You are what you think about all day long. — Dr. Robert Schuller

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. – Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island

I do it because I can; I can because I want to; I want to because you said I couldn’t. – Dalai Lama

I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance. – Steve Jobs, Co-founder, CEO, Chairman Apple Inc.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

You will succeed because most people are lazy. — Shahir Zag

Great minds have great purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. – Washington Irving

Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. ~Anonymous

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult. – Johann Wolfgang Von Goeth

Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you’re still trying, keep it up! You’re right on track. – Matthew Keith Groves

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. -John Rockefeller

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

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. ~ Dale Carnegie

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical. -Howard Schultz, Starbucks CEO

You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can´t have it. ~ Robert Anthony

I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity. – Oprah Winfrey

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal. Earl Nightingale

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. – Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan

The Most Difficult Thing Is The Decision To Act, The Rest Is Merely Tenacity. —Amelia Earhart

To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted. – George Kneller

A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there. — Author Unknown

Life is not measured by the amount of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.

Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature. – Bobby Knight

Troubles, like babies, grow larger by nursing. Lady Holland

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work. Mark Twain

I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success. Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses. – Kobe Bryant

Life begins where your comfort zone ends. – Neale Donald Walsch

People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. – Rogers Hornsby

Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless. – Tim Blixseth

It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are. -James MacKintosh

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. -Carl Edward Sagan

Positive anything is better than negative thinking.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. -Henry Van Dyke

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough. Helen Keller

Approach the start of each day with one goal and end the day with one word:DONE! – Anonymous

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. -Steve Jobs

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep. Ludwig Wittgenstein

The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. John E. Southard

It should be everyone’s interest to be virtuous who wish to be happy in this world. -Unknown

You may be whatever you resolve to be. Determine to be something in the world, and you will be something. I cannot, never accomplished anything; I will try, has wrought wonders. -J. Hawes

Every single person I know who is successful at what they do is successful because they love doing it.- Joe Penna, Mystery Guitar Man

I find it best to dive right in and learn the hard way.- Pete Cashmore, Mashable

Who, being loved, is poor? – Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?

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

Don't tell people how to do things; tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. George S. Patton Jr.

The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. – Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

Nobody controls me. I’m uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and even that’s barely possible. -John Lennon

Perhaps perseverance has been the radical principle of every truly great character. -J. Foster

The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake – you can’t learn anything from being perfect – Adam Osborne

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak. – Sun Tzu, The Art of War

People are not lazy. They simply have important goals– that is, goals that do not inspire them. – Tony Robbins

People don’t believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves. – Seth Godin

Positivity is all about overlooking the negative fact. – Reader submitted

Be the dream. - John Chaney

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors. – Napoleon Hill

Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it’s a lot easier to launch work that matters. – Seth Godin

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. – Confucius

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength. – Phil Jackson

Show me a guy who’s afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time. – Lou Brock

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. – Robert Hughes

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong. – Warren Buffett

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. – Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.-Charles R. Swindoll

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. – Thomas Edison

People don’t buy what you do; they buy why you do it. And what you do simply proves what you believe. – Simon Sinek

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

The very first company I started failed with a great bang. The second one failed a little bit less, but still failed. The third one, you know, proper failed, but it was kind of okay. I recovered quickly. Number four almost didn’t fail. It still didn’t really feel great, but it did okay. Number five was PayPal. – Max Levchin

The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself. – W. Somerset Maugham

Effective leaders have the ability to consistently move themselves and others to action because they understand the invisible forces that shape us – Tony Robbins

Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. – George W. Carver When the world says, ‘Give up’, Hope whispers, ‘Try it one more time.'

In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color. -Horace Mann

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for. Nancy D. Solomon

He is only advancing in life, whose heart is getting softer, his blood warmer, his brain quicker, and his spirit entering into living peace. -Ruskin

There is a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in something, you do it only when it’s convenient. When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results. – Kenneth H. Blanchard

Start where you are. Use what you have.  Do what you can. –Arthur Ashe

All progress takes place outside the comfort zone. ~Michael John Bobak

Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. – Unknown

You don’t die if you fall in water; you die only if you don’t swim.–Unknown

Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are. – Marcus Aurelius

Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. – Japanese Proverb

Before you start any business, always ask yourself three questions– Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead. – Chanakya

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends. — Abraham Lincoln

Please think about your legacy, because you’re writing it every day. – Gary Vaynerchuck

It’s what you practice in private that you will be rewarded for in public. – Tony Robbins

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success. Eddie Cantor

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. – Dr. Denis Waitley

If You Look At What You Have In Life, You’Ll Always Have More. If You Look At What You Don’T Have In Life, You’Ll Never Have Enough. —Oprah Winfrey

We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us. -Emerson

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. – Grandma Moses

True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. – Helen Keller

Perfection Is Not Attainable, But If We Chase Perfection We Can Catch Excellence. —Vince Lombardi

If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business, there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan. – Bill Rancic

If you can't fly, then run. If you can't run, then walk. If you can't walk, then crawl. But whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark. — Howard Ruff

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. – Lao Tzu

If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. – Ingvar Kamprad

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

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. -Thomas Edison

Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations. – Tim O’Reilly, founder and CEO O’Reilly Media

Well done is better than well said. – Benjamin Franklin

You don't have to get it perfect – you just have to get it going. Babies don't walk the first time they try, but eventually they do. - Mark Victor Hansen

I’m proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up. Orel Herhiser

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day… -Jim Rohn

Most obstacles melt away when we make up our minds to boldly walk through them. – Orison Swett Marden

Tough times never last, but tough people do. - Dr. Robert Schuller

If it really was a no–brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no–brained, harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan. – Bill Rancic

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than 50 preaching it. – Knute Rockne

If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut. -Einstein

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. –Aristotle

There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed. Ray Goforth

View your life from your funeral: Looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what wouldn't you do? Victor Frankl

Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. -Vince Lombardi

There is a lesson in almost everything that you do, and getting the lesson is how you move forward. It is how you enrich your spirit. - Oprah Winfrey

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. Albert Einstein

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. -Tim Ferriss

Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for. – Joseph Heller, Catch-22

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life and don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. Most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. — Steve Jobs

It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard everyone would be doing it. The hard is what makes it great. – From A League of Their Own

If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. -Generally attributed to Emerson, also claimed by Elbert Hubbard

It takes a person with a mission to succeed. Clarence Thomas

If you’re passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.

You have to know what you want to get. Gertrude Stein

If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you! ~T. Harv Eker

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. – Mark Twain

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. - Buddha

It is a rarity to find someone who can weigh other people’s faults without putting his own thumbs on the scale. -Paraguayan Proverb

Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching. – Unknown

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. –W. Clement Stone

How does one become a butterfly? You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar. ~ Trina Paulus

Things don’t go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be. – Lou Holtz

I have always known that at last I would take this road, but yesterday I did not know that it would be today. —Japanese Haiku

Never give up, never give in, and when the upper hand is ours, may we have the ability to handle the win with the dignity that we absorbed the loss. – Doug Williams

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. – Epictetus

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

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. Peter F. Drucker

We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to rise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. -H.W. Beecher

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer. George Santayana

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. — Mahatma Gandhi

Management is nothing more than motivating other people. – Le Iacocca

Knowledge is being aware of what you can do. Wisdom is knowing when not to do it. ~Anonymous

Son, if you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to redo it? – Reader’s grandfather said this, and I LOVE IT

You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things – to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals. Edmund Hillary

Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument. ~Anonymous

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing, that’s why we recommend it daily. – Zig Ziglar

We become what we think about. –Earl Nightingale

Nothing Will Work Unless You Do. —Maya Angelou

Remember No One Can Make You Feel Inferior Without Your Consent. —Eleanor Roosevelt

The entrepreneur builds an enterprise; the technician builds a job. – Michael Gerber

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

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. -?

Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination. – Roy Goodman

Take your dreams seriously. — Author Unknown

The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions. — William F. Scolavino

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time...serenity, that nothing is. Thomas Szasz

Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. – Vince Lombardi

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it. – Roy Ash, co-founder Litton Industries

Either you run the day, or the day runs you. –Jim Rohn

There is a difference between being a leader and being a boss. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience; a leader earns his authority through understanding and trust. Klaus Balkenhol

The higher you climb the better the view.

He who wishes to fulfill his mission in the world must be a man of one idea, that is, of one great overmastering purpose, overshadowing all his aims, and guiding and controlling his entire life. -Julius Bate

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. –Martin Luther King Jr.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. – Mark Twain

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

Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions. – Tony Robbins

Quality performance starts with a positive attitude. -Jeffrey Gitomer

Teach thy tongue to say, I do not know, and thous shalt progress. –Maimonides

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

If you did not look after today’s business, then you might as well forget about tomorrow. – Isaac Mophatlane

If you wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

Get busy living, or get busy dying. – Stephen King, Different Seasons

When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful. – Eric Thomas

The road to success is not to be run upon by seven-leagued boots. Step by step, little by little, bit by bit–that is the way to wealth, that is the way to wisdom, that is the way to glory. Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence. -Charles Buxton

When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money. That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again. – Steve Jobs

There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it. – Mario Cuomo

The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. – Neal Donald Walsch

Never be satisfied with what you achieve, because it all pales in comparison with what you are capable of doing in the future. Rabbi Nochem Kaplan

It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters. – Evander Holyfield

Within each of us is a hidden store of determination. Determination to keep us in the race when all seems lost. Roger Dawson

You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours. – Herb Brooks

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. - Henry David Thoreau

I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars — I look for 1-foot bars that I can step over. – Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO Berkshire Hathaway

Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding. – Jim Valvano

No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team – Reid Hoffman, co-founder LinkedIn

Keep your eyes open and try to catch people in your company doing something right, then praise them for it. Tom Hopkins

I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability. – Bruce Jenner

Life has no limitations, except the ones you make. - Les Brown

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. – Theodore Roosevelt

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort. – Jesse Owens

True motivation comes from within - from the willingness to see a dream fulfilled - from the desire to leave the world better than you found it. - Steve Brunkhorst

Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done. George Allen

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Have the passion, take the action & magic will happen. – Bar Rafaeli

Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement. – Marv Levy

Let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average. -A.W. Tozer

Every time you state what you want or believe, you’re the first to hear it. It’s a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don’t put a ceiling on yourself. – Oprah Winfrey, media proprietor

Determination is the wake-up call to the human will. Anthony Robbins

Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential. – Winston Churchill

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me. –Erma Bombeck

I wasn’t satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement. – Donald Trump

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. — Coco Chanel

The only difference between a Good Day And a Bad Day Is your attitude - Dennis S Brown

What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose. – Andre Agassi

We generate fears while we sit. We over come them by action. Fear is natures way of warning us to get busy. – Dr. Henry Link

An unexamined life is not worth living. –Socrates

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

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching”.  – Gerard Way

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

If the recipe sucks, it doesn’t matter how good a cook you are. – Tim Ferriss

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. Andre Dubus

What We Achieve Inwardly Will Change Outer Reality. —Plutarch

The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way. – Marcus Aurelius

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. -Sam Levenson

Winners never quit and quitters never win. - Anon

It’s more effective to do something valuable than to hope a logo or name will say it for you. – Jason Cohen, founder Smart Bear Software

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. ~Colin R. Davis

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. -Christopher Morley

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself. The height of a man’s success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. And this law is the expansion of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others. -Leonardo Da Vinci

Life Is 10% What Happens To Me And 90% Of How I React To It. —Charles Swindoll

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

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

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. -Tony Robbins

He who is silent is forgotten; he who abstains is taken at his word; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed, distanced, crushed; he who ceases to grow greater becomes smaller; he who leaves off, gives up; the stationary condition is the beginning of the end. -Amiel

Repentance is another name for aspiration. -H.W. Beecher

Success is not in what you have, but who you are. -Bo Bennett, founder eBookit.com

Creation is always happening. Every time an individual has a thought, or a prolonged way of thinking, they’re in the creation process. Something is going to manifest out of those thoughts. - Michael Bernard Beckwith

I have always admired the ability to bite off more than one can chew and then chew it. -William DeMille

I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.

Those who don’t understand determination call determination stubbornness or too driven. To be determined is to see it through! Catherine Pulsifer

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. - Confucius

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something. ~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. -George Addair

People are the custodians of the world’s wealth; if you want them to hand some over to you, you have to be nice to people! -Stuart Wilde

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it. Gale Sayers

Don’t aim for perfection, aim for success. – Eike Batista

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. –Leonardo da Vinci

Do it with passion, or not at all. — Rosa Nouchette Carey

Those who believe that we have reached the limit of business progress and employment opportunity in this country are like the farmer who had two windmills and pulled one down because he was afraid there was not enough wind for both. -Morris S. Tremaine

Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows. -Charles Buxton

Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry. George Ade

Anything lost can be found again, except for time wasted. – From the movie, Fresh

Under pressure you can perform fifteen percent better or worse. - Scott Hamilton

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games. – Babe Ruth

Don’t take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck. – A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

One never learns by success. Success is the plateau that one rests upon to take breath and look down from upon the straight and difficult path, but one does not climb upon a plateau. -Josephine Preston Peabody

You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing. ~Philippos

Nothing great has ever been achieved except by those who dared to believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances. – Bruce Barton

What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world. – Simon Sinek

Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. Vince Lombardi

Don’t be so quick to claim your limitations when you’ve never truly tested them. – Kevin Ngo – Bertie Charles Forbes

Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats. – Howard Aiken

You shouldn’t focus on why you can’t do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions. – Steve Case, co-founder AOL

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. – Samuel Beckett

You will never get lessons on swimming from a drowning man! – Reader submitted

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

You can do anything, but not everything. ~Anonymous

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these… -Epictetus

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. Albert Einstein

A jug fills drop by drop. Buddha

A leader ... is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind. Nelson Mandela

Fortune sides with him who dares. -Virgil

Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. — (actually, not a Buddha quote)

Listen, smile, agree and then do whatever you were going to do anyway.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. – Kevin Ngo

The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape. – Bono

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

You Can’T Use Up Creativity. The More You Use, The More You Have. —Maya Angelou

Don’t stop when you’re tired; stop when you’re done. – Marilyn Monroe

Be kind; everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. -Unknown

Business is more exciting than any game. – Lord Beaverbrook

In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead; the one being an innate desire of pleasure; the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence. - Socrates

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons. – Jim Rohn

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be. Rosalynn Carter

Whenever you see a successful person, you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them. Vaibhav Shah

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over. – Richard Branson, founder Virgin Group

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. – Earl Nightingale

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything. - Lee Iacocca

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. – John Quincy

I think I was very nave early on, but that also meant I didn’t know what couldn’t be done.- Matt Mickiewicz, 99 Designs

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. – Harry Golden

It’s not about having the right opportunities. It’s about handling the opportunities right. -Mark Hunter

Nothing can seem foul to those who win. William Shakespeare

Whatever you are, be a good one. -Abraham Lincoln

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer. – Ted Williams

The greatest discovery of my age is that men can change their circumstances by changing the attitude of their mind. -William James

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and get on with improving your other innovations. – Steve Jobs

A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them. ~Henry Kravis

If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.–Billy Joel

You have a very powerful mind that can make anything happen as long as you keep yourself centered. Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

Have the end in mind and every day make sure your working towards it. -Ryan Allis, co-founder and CEO iContact

Change before you have to. -Jack Welch

I worked for it. — Estee Lauder

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. – Dale Carnegie

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. -Aristotle

The first one gets the oyster; the second gets the shell. – Andrew Carnegie

The great leaders are like the best conductors – they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players. – Blaine Lee

The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed. Nelson Boswell

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. -Dale Carnegie

The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.- Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook

You can’t hit a home run unless you step up to the plate. You can’t catch a fish unless you put your line in the water. You can’t reach your goals if you don’t try. Kathy Seligman

You can’t ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new. – Steve Jobs, founder, chairman and CEO Apple Inc.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. -Thomas Paine

A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost. – Unknown

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination. Fitzhugh Dodson

You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get. – Michael Phelps

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

The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show. Jacob Bronowski

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. –Les Brown

Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter. Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Fortune favors the bold. -Virgil

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. –Anne Frank

Limitations Live Only In Our Minds. But If We Use Our Imaginations, Our Possibilities Become Limitless. —Jamie Paolinetti

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. Albert Einstein

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all Mankind. —Emily P. Bissell

Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied. – Dale Carnegie (How to Stop Worrying and Stop Living)

Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration. — Thomas Edison

Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success. – Unknown

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. – Steve Jobs

Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drowned your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.-Steve Jobs

Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is. – Seth Godin

It ain't over 'til it's over. -Yogi Berra

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. ~ Howard Thurman

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. – Les Brown You can’t just sit and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You’ve got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.

If the plan doesn’t work, change the plan, but never the goal. — Author Unknown

It always seems impossible until it’s done. – Nelson Mandela

It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up. – Vince Lombardi

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer not a dreamer. -Nolan Bushnell, founder Atari and Chuck-E-Cheese’s

Avoiding failure is to avoid progress. — Author Unknown

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.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. – Jim Rohn

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge. -Robert Kiyosaki, founder Cashflow Technologies Inc.

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

I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat. – Tom Landry

The whole idea is to get an edge. Sometimes it takes just a little extra something to get that edge, but you have to have it. - Don Shula

The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many. – John Naisbitt

The good or ill of a man lies within his own will. – Epictetus

The true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good. ~ Ann Landers

Talent is given, greatness is earned.

The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer. – John Madden

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. William Feather

Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t so you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t – A student in Warren G.

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit. -David Starr Jordan

Walk away from anything or anyone who takes away from your joy. Life is too short to put up with fools- Unknown

Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence. – George F. Will

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, ‘This is the real me,’ and when you have found that attitude, follow it. — William James

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. – Mahatma Gandhi

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. ~ William Faulkner

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. – Steve Farber

I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do. – Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. - Muhammad Ali

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. – Richard Koch

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals. Sydney Smith

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born–that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. -Warren G. Bennis

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian. -Simms

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

Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life. — Robin Sharma

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying. - Michael Jordan

There is always room at the top. -Daniel Webster

Your problem isn’t the problem. Your reaction is the problem. ~Anonymous

It’s important to make someone happy, and it’s important to start with yourself.

Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started. David Allen

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s when you’ve had everything to do, and you’ve done it. – Margaret Thatcher

Everyday is a new beginning, take a deep breath and start again.

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible. – Miguel de Unamuno

Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. -John R. Wooden

Creativity is intelligence having fun. — Albert Einstein