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Inspirational Quotes
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(Motivational Quotes)
(Motivating Quotes)
(Success Quotes)
"It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out where the strong man stumbled, or where a doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man in the arena whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs, and who comes up short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause. The man who at best knows the triumph of high achievement and who at worst, if he fails, fails while daring greatly, so that his place will never be with those cold timid souls who never knew victory or defeat."- Theodore Roosevelt
1858-1919, 26th President of the United States (1901-1909) "If all you ever do,
is what you can,
you never grow.
It is by doing what you cannot,
that you become,
what you could."- Steve Gibson
President and Founder, Gibson Research Corporation (developer of SpinRite & ShieldsUP!) "What would you do different if you knew you could not fail?"- Kim Schmitz
2002 "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing."- Abraham Lincoln "Most people want to tell you how difficult life is so they can fail with dignity."- Anonymous "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply done all of his homework."- Thomas Edison "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. It is astonishing how many have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work...."- Thomas Edison "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress...."- Thomas Edison "The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas."- Albert Einstein "Whether you believe you can, or whether you believe you can't, you're absolutely right."- Henry Ford "No one ever achieved greatness by playing it safe."- Harry Gray "Aim at nothing and you will hit it every time."- Unknown "Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people."- Admiral Hyman G. Rickover
1900-1986 "We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action."- Frank Tibolt "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few."- Shunryu Suzuki "The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn ... and change."- Carl Rogers "The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it."- Chinese Proverb "Open your mind up to things that have no connection with the problem you're trying to solve: subscribe to an unusual magazine; spend a morning at an elementary school; go to work two hours early; test drive an exotic car; attend a city council meeting; ...try an Indonesian recipe."- Roger von Oech "In a study of 2,036 scientists throughout history, Simonton found that the most respected produced not only more great works, but also more "bad" ones. They produced. Period."- Doug Hall "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."- Albert Einstein "I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right."- Albert Einstein "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."- Albert Einstein "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is. I believe in the latter."- Albert Einstein "At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out."- Virginia Postrel "Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea."- James Bryant Conant "Our mind is like a window, close it too tight and it will never open again."- Vincent Duncombe "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."- Albert Einstein "Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person."- Albert Einstein "When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are."- R. H. Grant "Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it."- Colin Powell "Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any."- Arthur Wellesley
first Duke of Wellington "Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world."- Publilius Syrus "Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people."- William Butler Yeats "You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much."- Tove Jansson
Tales from Moominvalley, 1963 "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit."- Robert Woodruff "When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us."- Margery Allingham
Death of a Ghost, 1934 "Few are those who can see with their own eyes and hear with their own hearts."- Albert Einstein "We are what we repeatedly do."- Aristotle "To be is to do."- Descartes "You can never lose what you never had."- Dican "As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way: government, society, and even the sun, moon and stars."- Henry David Thoreau "Obstacles are those frightful things we see when we take our eyes off our goal."- Henry Ford "Never let your sense of morals keep you from doing what is right."- Isaac Asimov "If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all."- John Cage "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."- Mahatma Ghandi "Do not go where the path may lead instead go where there is no path and leave a trail."- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."- Steve Jobs "Some visitors asked me: "Why do you have a site like Kimble.org? Is it all about your ego?" My ego is one of a kind, without question, but that is not the main reason for Kimble.org. My mission is simple: I want to motivate you. I want to show you paradise & generate your will to succeed. Your parents ask you to follow the standard path: School, job, security. Is this really the best way? I don't think so - be your own boss!"- Kim Schmitz "People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done."- Cullen Hightower "The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity."- Richard M. Nixon "Things are only impossible until they're not."- Jean-Luc Picard
Star Trek: The Next Generation "It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."- W. Somerset Maugham "Act as if it were impossible to fail."- Dorothea Brande "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."- T.S. Eliot "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."- Emile Zola "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined."- Thoreau "Do you know what opportunity looks like? Real opportunity most often looks like a lot of long, hard work. Do you know where to look for opportunity? You're most likely to find it in the problems, the frustrations and the challenges about which the most people complain the most loudly. Do you know what to do with opportunity when you find it? The best thing you can do is to take full responsibility for transforming it into something of real and lasting value. How do you do that? With an unshakable commitment, a positive attitude, the willingness to make whatever effort is necessary, and the persistence to continue until it is done. Do you understand what opportunity is not? It is not a free ride, or a lucky break, or an invitation to get something for nothing. Do you want to make the most of a great opportunity? Then get busy and put everything you have into making it happen, for if you do, it will."- Ralph Marston "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."- Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826 "Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the place where it leads."- Erica Jong "What you do today matters; tomorrow matters not."- M.D. "Regarding the struggles with motivation in accomplishing any goal, from obtaining wealth to improving one's health, it is what you do today that matters; tomorrow matters not. We forever experience life in the present time and it is only the present time, today, we can control to affect the future."- M.D. "Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose."- G. K. Nielson "The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation."- George Bernard Shaw "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit."- Aristotle "One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation."- Arthur Ashe "It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action."- Al Batt "To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed."- Bernard Edmonds "Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."- Bill Gates "A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do."- Bob Dylan "To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it."- Bunker Hunt "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure."- Colin Powell "People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing."- Dale Carnegie "Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure."- Earl Wilson "It is never too late to be what you might have been."- George Eliot
1819-80, Victorian Novelist "Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most."- George R. Kirkpatrick "Knowing is not enough; We must apply. Willing is not enough; We must do."- Goethe "I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."- Henry David Thoreau "It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage."- Henry Ward Beecher "Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments."- Henry Ward Beecher "There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes! But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people."- Jan Ashford "You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence."- John B. Gough "Failure is success if we learn from it."- Malcolm S. Forbes "Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling."- Margaret B. Runbeck "Success doesn't come to you ... you go to it."- Marva Collins "Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success."- Napoleon Hill "The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work. Many of those who fail most ignominiously do enough to achieve grand success but they labor haphazardly at whatever they are assigned, building up with one hand to tear down with the other. They do not grasp circumstances and change them into opportunities. They have no faculty for turning honest defeats into telling victories. With ability enough and ample time, the major ingredients of success, they are forever throwing back and forth an empty shuttle and the real web of their life is never woven."- Og Mandino "Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success."- Rob Gilbert "The great successful men of the world have used their imagination ... they think ahead and create their mental picture in all it details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building -- steadily building."- Robert Collier "I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work."- Thomas A. Edison "I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying."- Tom Hopkins "Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."- William Feather "Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."- Winston Churchill "I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person."- Og Mandino "The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything. Drops of water, by continually falling, hone their passage through the hardest of rocks but the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar and leaves no trace behind."- Og Mandino "Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better… or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future."- Og Mandino "Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!"- Og Mandino "Being asked to give all you have is not a hard concept to grasp, but when you have all of the potential, it makes it that much tougher."- Adam Crawford "Insecurity breeds greatness. To get to the top in virtually anything today, you really have to make a superhuman effort. You won't ever find a superachiever anywhere who wasn't or isn't motivated, at least partially, by a sense of insecurity."- Ted Turner "The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence."- Robert J. Shiller
Irrational Exuberance "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 "It is better to have a hen tomorrow than an egg today."- Unknown "Insults are effective only where emotion is present."- Spock
"Who Mourns for Adonais?" stardate 3468.1. "Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser."- Vince Lombardi "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 habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."- Vince Lombardi "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 "Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is."- Vince Lombardi "Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing."- Vince Lombardi "The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor."- Vince Lombardi "If you think you are beaten, you are,
if you think you dare not, you don't.
If you would like to win but you think you can't,
It's almost certain you won't.
If you think you'll lose, you've lost,
For out in the world we find,
Success begins with a fellow's will -
It's all in the state of mind.
If you think you're outclassed, you are,
You've got to think high to rise,
You've got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.
Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster man,
but soon or late, the man who wins
Is the man WHO THINKS HE CAN!"- Waler D. Wintle
The Man who Thinks He Can "The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender."- Vince Lombardi "In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail."- Vince Lombardi "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 "Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit."- Vince Lombardi "Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day."- Jim Rohn "If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate."- Thomas Watson Sr.
Founder of IBM "I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed."- Michael Jordan "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."- Bill Cosby "I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying."- Michael Jordan "Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his acts are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it."- Harry Browne "You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong."- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure."- Joseph Sugarman "The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."- George Bernard Shaw "Success doesn't come to you...you go to it."- Marva Collins "The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are."- John Burroughs "Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity."- Helen Schucman "What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it."- Alexander Graham Bell "The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of other; it is in yourself alone."- Orison Swett Marden "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 D. Rockefeller
1839-1937, the richest man of all time, worth $200 billion (in 2001 USD) "Opportunities? They are all around us... there is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it."- Orison Swett Marden "Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand."- Bruce Barton "We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have."- Basil S. Walsh "Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for; but, rather something to be achieved."- William Jennings Bryan "Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter."- B.C. Forbes "Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity."- Joseph Sugarman "In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."- Albert Einstein "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."- Francois Bacon "There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job."- George Crane "Opportunity... often it comes in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat."- Napoleon Hill "The price of success is perseverance. The price of failure comes cheaper."- Anonymous "Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it."- Horace "I contend that dishonesty will create a failure force that often manifests itself in other ways - ways not apparent to the outside observer."- Joseph Sugarman "Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'."- Friedrich Nietzsche "The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence."- Robert J. Shiller
Irrational Exuberance "All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers."- Orison Swett Marden "I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big."- Donald Trump "A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one."- Mary Kay Ash "If you can dream it, you can do it."- Walt Disney "Martin Luther King did not say, "I have a strategic plan." Instead, he shouted, "I have a DREAM!," and, he created a crusade."- Unknown "We must be the change we wish to see in the world."- Gandhi "Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny."- Frank Outlaw "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."- Albert Einstein "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."- Theodore Roosevelt
1858-1919, 26th President of the United States (1901-1909) "There is no such thing as an unrealistic goal, just an unrealistic time frame."- Unknown "Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today."- Og Mandino
1923-1996, American Motivational Author & Speaker "In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest."- Henry Miller
1891-1980, American Author "You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself."- Galileo
1564-1642, Italian Astronomer & Mathematician "Believe in yourself. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face. You must do that which you think you cannot do."- Eleanor Roosevelt "A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble."- Mahatma Gandhi
1869-1948, Indian Political & Spiritual Leader "Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future."- Charles F. Kettering "The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next."- Matthew Arnold
'God and the Bible,' 1875 "If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability."- Henry Ford
1863-1947 American Industrialist "When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."- Albert Einstein
1879-1955 American Physicist & Nobel Laureate "I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what."- Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960 "Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction."- Charles J. Givens
American Businessman, Author & Trainer "Idleness is the holiday of fools."- Unknown "Accept fate, and move on. Don't yield to the seductive pull of self-pity. Acting like a victim threatens your future."- Unknown "Everyone has a success mechanism and a failure mechanism. The failure mechanism goes off by itself. The success mechanism only goes off with a goal. Every time we write down and talk about a goal we push the button to start the success mechanism."- Charles "Tremendous" Jones
American Motivational Speaker & Author "The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things."- Ernest Dimnet
1866-1954, French Clergyman "First do what's necessary, second do what's possible, third do what's impossible."- Saint Francis DeSisy "Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible."- St. Francis of Assisi "Imitation is the best compliment."- Chika Onyeani "It is better to die in the sustained effort to reach your goals, than to die from fear of not even venturing."- Chika Onyeani "It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad."- Jimmy Buffett
Tale From Margartaville (Hardcourt) "To play it safe is not to play."- Robert Altman "A man surprised is half beaten."- Proverb "The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position."- Leo Buscaglia
1924-1998, American Lecturer & Author "By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment."- Dorothea Brande
American Success Writer "Commitment challenges you to set a goal and then to support it with a promise. You must promise to achieve and never entertain the thoughts of making excuses or shunning responsibility."- Gary Ryan Blair
The Goals Guy, Trainer & Motivational Speaker "Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, "What happened?""- unknown "What we see depends mainly on what we look for."- John Lubbock "Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."- Darrell Royal
in James A. Michener, Sports in America, 1976 "I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday."- Abraham Lincoln "Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given."- Anton Chekhov
1860-1904, Russian Dramatist & Writer "Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win."- Jonathan Kozol "The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time."- W.J. Davison "Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going."- Laurence J. Peter "As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher."- Giacomo Casanova "Life is not holding a good hand; Life is playing a poor hand well."- Danish proverb "Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life."- Ann Landers "The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind."- William James "A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals."- Larry Bird "I am free, no matter what rules surround me. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for every thing I do."- Robert A. Heinlein "Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in."- Alan Alda
Actor, Director (1936-) "The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist."- J. Harold Wilkins "A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us."- Maltbie Babcock "No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or "get rich" in business by being a conformist."- J. Paul Getty "To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him."- Honore De Balzac "Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility."- Dietrich Bonhoffer "Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe."- Demosthenes "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."- Robert Fritz "Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."- Cicero "Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is a beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is life, fight for it!"- Mother Teresa "You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims."- Harriet Woods "Many people start a business only to make money. Just to make money is not a strong enough mission."- Robert Kiyosaki
Page 255, Rich Dad's Guide To Investing by Robert Kiyosaki with Sharon Lechter "Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."- Franklin D. Roosevelt "You accomplish what you concentrate on."- M.D. "The transformation begins simply, with nothing more than a decision to raise your standards and no longer accept the life you've been living."- Fred Anderson
onefatman.com "Each day you have the opportunity to change yourself. What have you done today?"- Fred Anderson
onefatman.com "What you did in the past, though it might have made you the person you are today, has absolutely no bearing on what you do in the future."- Fred Anderson
onefatman.com "When you make a commitment to yourself to live by a new standard, your results are neither accidental nor unforeseen."- Fred Anderson
onefatman.com "The person you are tomorrow depends on the person you live like today. What kind of person do you want to be tomorrow? Are you living to be that person?"- Fred Anderson
onefatman.com "When you take responsibility for your actions, you give yourself immeasurable power."- Fred Anderson
onefatman.com "The more specific your vision is, the better your chances of making it a reality."- Fred Anderson
onefatman.com "Take responsibility for your actions. Don't blame society, your parents, or anyone - or thing - else."- Fred Anderson
onefatman.com "You know how to take charge of your life and transform yourself into the person you want to be, all you have to do is make the commitment to yourself and believe in yourself enough to keep your commitment."- Fred Anderson
onefatman.com "The next year will pass whether you make a decision to change yourself or not."- Fred Anderson
onefatman.com "You'll never know what you're capable of doing until you get up and do it."- Fred Anderson
onefatman.com "I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living."- John D. Rockefeller
1839-1937, American Industrialist, the richest man of all time, worth $200 billion (in 2001 USD) "It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application."- Samuel Smiles
1812-1904, Scottish Author "Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am I going to do next time? How can I do this and have fun doing it?"- Charles Connolly
American Psychologist "It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain."- Arthur Schopenhauer
1788-1860, German Philosopher "Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe."- Robert Service "Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas."- George Gilder
American Businessman & Author "How badly do you want it?"- George E. Allen
1832-1907, British Publisher & Author "The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss."- Thomas Kempis
1379-1471, German Religious Writer "Your opponent, in the end, is never really the player on the other side of the net, or the swimmer in the next lane, or the team on the other side of the field, or even the bar you must high-jump. Your opponent is yourself, your negative internal voices, your level of determination."- Grace Lichtenstein
American Author & Editor "Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them."- Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author "Most people never feel secure because they are always worried that they will lose their job, lose the money they already have, lose their spouse, lose their health, and so on. The only true security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way, that you are increasing the caliber of who you are and that you are valuable to your company, your friends, and your family."- Anthony Robbins
American Speaker, Peak Performance Expert "I frequently hear my clients say, 'I have to...' or 'I gotta...' or 'I should...' And when I hear those phrases I often ask, 'Do you have to or do you choose to?'... We forfeit our freedom of choice through our own thought processes."- Kathy Paauw
Organizing & Productivity Consultant "Success is the ability to continue to move through total disaster."- Winston Churchill
1874-1965, British Prime Minister "A man's mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions."- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "Significance is a spiritual sense of knowing that we are created with intent and that we have purpose, that we are connected to something greater than our immediate concerns and that we can impact the world in a positive way."- Gail Pursell Elliott
The Dignity and Respect Lady "Focus is the key to all results. Results require that you concentrate your efforts on the smallest number of activities that will produce the largest amount of productivity."- Gary Ryan Blair
The Goals Guy "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."- Martin Luther King
1929-1968, American Civil Rights Leader "To win or lose. To love or hate. To try or quit. To risk or withdraw. To accelerate or hesitate. To dream or stagnate. To open or close. To succeed or fail. To live or die. Everyone of these starts with a CHOICE."- Snowden McFall
Author and Professional Speaker "Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions."- Roger Babson
1875-1967, Founder of Babson College "A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else."- John Burroughs
1873-1921 American Author "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."- B. C. Forbes "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."- Will Rogers
1879-1935, American Humorist, Actor & Writer "This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths... Once we truly know that life is difficult -- once we truly understand and accept it -- then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters."- M. Scott Peck
American Author "Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was."- Richard L. Evans "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."- George Bernard Shaw "We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it."- William Osler
1849-1919, Canadian Physician "A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."- Walter Bagehot
1826-1877, British Economist "Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won."- Louisa May Alcott
1832-1888, American Author "We have the power to choose and to exercise that power without giving control of it to situations. We cannot change anything but our own perspective and response, yet in that changing we change the world around us by becoming an instrument of insight and awareness."- Gail Pursell Elliott
The Dignity and Respect Lady "Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism."- Rollo May "Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."- Lucille Ball "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."- Henry Ford "If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears."- Glenn Clark "I want to remind you that success in life is based on hard slogging. There will be periods when discouragement is great and upsetting, and the antidote for this is calmness and fortitude and a modest yet firm belief in your competence. Be sure that your priorities are in order so that you can proceed in a logical manner, and be ever mindful that nothing will take the place of persistence."- Walter Annenberg
Publisher and philanthropist, in a letter to his son "Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to hide them."- Francois de La Rochefoucald "A man who does not think for himself does not think at all."- Oscar Wilde "It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life."- Christina
Queen of Sweden "The amount of resistance to something is equal to the potential for gain."- Allan Hunkin
Founder of Success-Talk "Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient."- Aristotle "All men dream; but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake to find that it was vanity; But dreamers of day are dangerous men, that they may act their dreams with open eyes to make it possible."- T.E. Lawrence
1888-1935, British Author "Reflect upon you present blessings, of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."- Charles Dickens,
1812-1870, "The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time."- W.J. Davison "Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life."- Dr. David M. Burns "Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."- Henry Ford "Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon."- Winston Churchill
1874-1965, British Prime Minister "The best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in a smaller house than your means would entitle you to have."- Edward Clarke "One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything."- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg "Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice. You might experiment with using the cultivation of generosity as a vehicle for deep self-observation and inquiry as well as an exercise in giving. A good place to start is with yourself. See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance, or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation-to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe."- Jon Kabat Zinn
Stress Reduction & Meditation Expert "The obstacles you face are mental barriers which can be broken by adopting a more positive approach."- Clarence Blasier "To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. This is to be my symphony."- William Henry Channing, 1810-1884, American Writer "Everything that can be counted doesn't necessarily count; everything that counts can't necessarily be counted."- Albert Einstein "Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am I going to do next time? How can I do this and have fun doing it?"- Charles Connolly
American Psychologist "Success requires first expending 10 units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce 10 units of results with each unit of effort."- Charles J. Givens
American Businessman, Author & Trainer "You want to get rich in order that you may surround yourself with beautiful things, see distant lands, feed your mind, and develop your intellect; in order that you may love others and do kind things, and be able to play a good part in helping the world to find truth."- Wallace D. Wattles
Author of The Science of Getting Rich "A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one."- Henry Ford
1863 - 1947, Founder of the Ford Motor Co., 1903 - 1945 "An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people."- Jack Welch
1935 - ???, CEO, General Electric, 1981 - 2001 "There are two modes of acquiring knowledge, namely by reasoning and experience. Reasoning draws a conclusion and makes us grant the conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, nor does it remove doubt so that the mind may rest on the intuition of truth, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience."- Roger Bacon
1561-1626, English Philosopher "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."- Helen Keller "Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent."- Marilyn Vos Savant
American Columnist & Writer "A vision keeps the Wealthy Soul focused on the path and not on the boulders."- Michael Norwood
Author of the Wealthy Soul Series "Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. They make the impossible happen."- Dr. Robert Jarvik "One worthwhile task carried to a successful completion is worth a hundred half-finished tasks."- B. C. Forbes "The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn."- Peter McWilliams "Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense."- Thomas Bennett "Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."- Thomas Jefferson "It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned."- Frank A. Clark "Everything in life is luck."- Donald Trump "Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident."- Mark Twain "Luck is when opportunity knocks and you answer."- unknown "It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome."- William James
1842-1910, American Psychologist & Author "When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams."- Les Brown
American Motivational Speaker, Author & Trainer "Joy does not come from outside. Whatever happens to us, it is within."- Michael Norwood
Author of The Wealthy Soul "The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself."- Wang Yang-Ming "The person determined to achieve maximum success learns the principle that progress is made one step at a time. A house is built one brick at a time. Football games are won a play at a time. A department store grows bigger one customer at a time. Every big accomplishment is a series of little accomplishments."- David J. Schwartz
American Trainer & Author "Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world."- Joel A. Barker
American Businessman, Consultant & Author "Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity."- Socrates "Creativity is... seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God."- Michele Shea "You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it. Value your present moments. Using them up in any self-defeating ways means you've lost them forever."- Dr Wayne Dyer
American Psychotherapist, Author & Lecturer "Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything."- Mary Hemingway "If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that you want to be like."- Brian Tracy "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
1875-1965 "The test of a successful person is not an ability to eliminate all problems before they arise, but to meet and work out difficulties when they do arise. We must be willing to make an intelligent compromise with perfection lest we wait forever before taking action. It's still good advice to cross bridges as we come to them."- David Joseph Schwartz "Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out."- Anonymous "The only honest measure of your success is what you are doing compared to your true potential."- Paul J. Meyer "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."- Booker T. Washington "Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted."- David Bly "To attract attractive people, you must be attractive. To attract powerful people, you must be powerful. To attract committed people, you must be committed. Instead of going to work on them, you go to work on yourself. If you become, you can attract."- Jim Rohn "Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final."- Roger W Babson statistician, columnist "Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced ...the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose."- Grenville Kleiser "Recipe for success: Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing."- William A. Ward "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 "When I was young I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work."- Bernard Shaw "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 "I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work."- Thomas Edison "People with goals succeed, because they know where they're going."- Earl Nightingate "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work learning from failure."- General Colin Powell "The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious."- unknown "Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is for you."- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years."- Bob Brown "Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."- Robert Collier "Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time."- Stephen Swid "The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act."- Orison Swett Marden
1850-1924, Founder of Success Magazine "Man's biggest mistake is to believe that he's working for someone else."- Nashua Cavalier
American Author "Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters."- Samuel Johnson "Perseverance and failure cannot coexist. Failure happens when you quit."- unknown "When someone attaches unkindness to criticism, she's angry. Angry people need to criticize as an outlet for their anger. That's why you must reject unkind criticism. Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish."- Barbara Sher
American Author "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."- Naguib Mahfouz
Egyptian Writer and Nobel Prize winner "The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams."- Sidney Madwed
American Speaker & Poet "A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything."- Harry Browne
Financial Consultant & Libertarian Activist "If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way."- Napoleon Hill
1883-1970, Author of Think and Grow Rich "Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all."- Brian Tracy
American Trainer, Speaker, Author & Businessman "To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life."- Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1894 Scottish Author & Poet "The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed."- Lloyd Jones
1899-1981, Welsh Theologian "A goal is created three times. First as a mental picture. Second, when written down to add clarity and dimension. And third, when you take action towards its achievement."- Gary Ryan Blair
The Goals Guy "Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows; it empties today of its strength."- unknown "Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all."- Norman Vincent Peale
1898-1993, Pastor, Speaker & Author "Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance."- Brian Tracy
American Trainer, Speaker, Author & Businessman "Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference."- Nolan Bushnell "Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work."- H. L. Hunt "Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details."- William Feather "To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."- Elbert Hubbard
1856-1915 American Publisher "Nothing is predestined. The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings."- Ralph Blum
Author "What we say is important for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of."- Jim Beggs "Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength."- A. J. Cronin
Novelist 1896-1981 "Fools scatter about their many attributes, The wise keep such within; A piece of straw floats upon the surface of water. A precious gemstone sinks to the bottom! Therefore, it is best to disregard the seen. And concentrate upon the unseen. Only within the latter may riches be found."- Ancient Greek parable "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 which has opened for us."- Helen Keller
1880-1968 American Blind/Deaf Author & Motivator "Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is consolable."- Sydney J. Harris
1917-1986, American Journalist & Author "It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."- Andre Gide "Believe you can do it. Believing something can be done puts your mind to work for you and helps you find ways to do it."- George Shinn
Author of "The Miracle of Motivation" "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."- Anais Nin "It is not enough to have great qualities, we should also have the management of them."- Francois de La Rochefoucald
1613-1680, French Writer "There's no such thing as Perfection. But, in striving for perfection, we can achieve excellence."- Vince Lombardi
1913-1970, American Football Coach "There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying."- Francis Bacon
1561-1626, English Philosopher "The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."- Arthur C. Clarke
Science Fiction Author "It's easier to invent the future than to predict it."- Alan Kay "When I got into the PC business [I was told], ‘This is the way it’s always done. We’ll never need a PC. We’ll never need audio or video over the Internet… And you shouldn’t get so close to your players. And you shouldn’t go out there and travel,’ Shouldn’t, shouldn’t, shouldn’t — is usually an indication I’m doing things right."- Mark Cuban
Dallas Mavericks Owner; Internet Billionaire "The best way to live life to the fullest everyday is to make as many decisions as possible about the future -- yesterday."- Daniel A. Feerst
American Publisher "Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory."- Herbert Kaufman
American Author & Behavioral Expert "Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed."- Peter McWilliams
American Author "The most damaging phrase in the language is, "It's always been done that way"."- Admiral Grace Hopper
1906-1992 "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."- Henry Ford
1863-1947, American Entrepreneur "1. You have to be born with enough brainpower.
2. Once you have that, you have to love what you're doing. I've never seen anyone succeed who didn't love what they were doing.
3. You cannot stop. If there is a concrete wall in front of you, you have to go through it. You can never, ever give up or even think in terms of giving up.
4. Confidence is a very important thing. But confidence isn't something you just develop by saying "I'm going to do this or that." You really have to believe it.
5. I love pitting people against each other. My whole life is based on that. It brings out the best in people and the worst in people. If the worst comes out, you don't want them working for you.
6. You have to remain cool under fire and let criticism roll off you. Good leaders handle conflict easily and bad ones are eaten up by it.
7. You must work well with others and be loyal to your team. Disloyalty is the worst of all traits. I seldom use the words "You're fired!" in business, unless somebody is really scum and stole from me."- Donald Trump
Donald's 7 Rules of Success "I bargained with Life for a penny,
And Life would pay no more,
However I begged at the evening
When I counted my scanty store.
For Life is a just employer,
He gives you what you ask,
But once you have set the wages,
Why, you must bear the task.
I worked for a menial's hire,
Only to learn, dismayed,
That any wage I had asked of Life,
Life would have willingly paid."- Jessie Belle Rittenhouse
1869–1948; quoted in Think & Grow Rick, Napoleon Hill "If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place."- Orison Swett Marden
1850-1924, Founder of Success Magazine "In knowing how to overcome little things, a centimeter at a time, gradually when bigger things come, you're prepared."- Katherine Dunham
American Dancer "Life's lessons may be viewed as difficulties or challenges to be overcome, but in reality they are an exercise in fine-tuning that will make our efforts more effective in the long run. We are developing skills, attitudes, and perspectives that we need to move forward with insight and awareness."- Gail Pursell Elliott
The Dignity and Respect Lady "Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing."- Alexander Solzhenitsyn "In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes."- John Ruskin
1819-1900, English Philosopher "If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life."- Abraham H. Maslow
1908-1970, American Psychologist "Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life."- Mortimer J. Adler
American Educator & Philosopher "And there's another factor involved, which is that you can divide our industry into two kinds of people: those who want to go work for a company to make it successful, and those who want to go work for a successful company. Netscape's early success and rapid growth caused us to stop getting the former and start getting the latter."- Jamie Zawinski
1999, on Netscape's downfall "To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act."- Anatole France "To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."- Anatole France
1844-1924, French Author "A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with the wind."- John Neal
1793-1876, American Novelist, Poet, & Lawyer "When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bounds. 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."- Pantanjali "Men may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do."- Lewis Cass
1782-1866, American Politician "One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world making the most of one's best."- Harry Emerson Fosdick
1878-1969, American Theologian & Author "Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger."- Lou Holtz
American College Footbal Coach "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 "To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you somebody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."- E.E. Cummings
1894-1962, American Poet & Author "Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."- Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi "The only things in your control are your thoughts and then your actions. Positive, powerful thoughts lead to positive, powerful actions, and when done with repeated consistency this cycle leads to greatness. Dream it! Pray for it! Believe it! Work for it! And then be ready when it happens!"- Greg Werner
Strength & Conditioning Coach "Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do… The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Really smart people with reasonable funding can do just about anything that doesn't violate too many of Newton's Laws!"- Alan Kay
1971 "Any successful journey begins by packing your luggage full of imagination."- Kathrine Palmer Peterson "Imagination is the spark that ignites the fire of creativity."- Richard Laurence Peterson "Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point."- Harold B. Melchart "A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends."- Balthasar Gracian "What crazy idea do you have down deep inside that makes people chuckle or laugh every time you bring it up? However wild it may be, no matter how many scoff at it, risk a little time and a few bucks. You may be able to demonstrate you were right after all. And you'll be on your way to success."- Bob McElwain
Internet Entrepreneur "The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist."- J. Harold Wilkins "What I think about, I bring about. The thought of success will foster success. The thought of love will foster love. The thought of security will foster security. What am I thinking about today?"- Rita Davenport "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 "Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision."- Ayn Rand "Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible."- Francis of Assisi "There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened. We all have a choice. You can decide which type of person you want to be. I have always chosen to be in the first group."- Mary Kay Ash "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 "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."- Anais Nin "Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius."- An Wang
1920-1990, Founder of Wang Laboratories "He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch."- Jean Luc Godard
Influential French Filmmaker "Happiness depends upon ourselves."- Aristotle "Mans mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."- Oliver Wendell Holmes "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."- L.P. Sanadhya "Only a monomaniac gets anything done."- Albert Einstein "Know how to listen and you will profit even from those who talk badly."- Plutarch
AD 46-120, Greek Essayist "You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."- Woodrow Wilson "Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future."- Marilyn Ferguson "Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work."- Robert Orben "The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."- Michelangelo "Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you."- Frank Tyger "To feel controlled is to lose interest."- Alfie Kohn "Our greatest happiness in life does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits."- Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, 3rd US President "Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else."- Nathaniel Branden
American Psychologist & Philosopher "Worry is like a rocking chair. It uses up all your energy, but where does it get you?"- Bob Gass
Irish Born Minister "Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."- W. Edwards Deming
1900-1993, Business Innovator "There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do."- Henry Ford "Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in."- Katherine Mansfield
1888-1923, British Author "If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail."- Seneca "The important thing is this: to be able at any m |