Don't just build a better candle -- electrify!
Terry Brock
During perilous times innovation is not just a good idea. It is a necessity for survival. This is a time to out-innovate the competition and find out what you can do to position yourself and your company for the good times that are sure to come in the future.
Terry Brock
"Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Although you get promoted by having the right answer, it's more important to ask the right questions as you climb higher.
David Garvin
One man with courage makes it a majority.
Andrew Jackson
"A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special"
Nelson Mandela
"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor."
Victor Hugo
"None of us has gotten where we are solely by pulling ourselves up from our own bootstraps. We got here because somebody… bent down and helped us."
Thurgood Marshall
What we say has such a profound influence upon what we see, and hear, and taste of the world!
David Abram
"How simple it is to see that all the worry in the world cannot control the future. How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now. And that there will never be a time when it is not now."
Gerald Jampolsky
When you can't freely express yourself, you're already behind bars.
Mbanna Kantako
In order to know how to talk, you have to know what to say. In order to know what to say, you have to get in touch with those deep-inside-of-you thoughts, feelings, needs, and yearnings. These are the parts of you that must be communicated if you are going to be known.
Dr. Neil Warren
"Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God."
Mary Manin Morrissey
"Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself. "
Robert F. Bennett
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Max Ehrmann
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
Mae West
"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."
Elizabeth Arden
Ethics, in the end, is not something we do. It is something we become.
Art Kleiner
"Other people may not have had high expectations for me but I had high expectations for myself. "
Shannon Miller
"Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans. "
David Schwartz
Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
Warren Bennis
"Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it."
Horace Mann
"What I've been doing in practice will carry over into the game."
Randall Cunningham
Most people achieved their greatest successes one step beyond what looked like their greatest failure.
Brian Tracy
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Sir Winston Churchill
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl Jung
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."
Plato
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi
Pain was not given you merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account.
Thomas Carlyle
As long as you are going to be thinking anyway, THINK BIG !
Donald Trump
"If you're still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today."
Joyce Chapman
"My tastes are simple. I like only the very best."
Winston Churchill
"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."
Truman Capote
The greatest power we have is the power of choice.
Victor Parachin
"Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call genius."
Alexander Hamilton
"With confidence, you can reach truly amazing heights; without confidence, even the simplest accomplishments are beyond your grasp."
Jim Loehr
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
Leonardo da Vinci
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather the wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
Antoine de Saint Exupery
"We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility."
Albert Einstein
In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.
William Barclay
"If you don't like something change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."
Maya Angelou
A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
Harvey Mackay
"The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust."
Persian Proverb
I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
Tom Landry
If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.
Abraham Maslow
"You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration."
James Allen
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"Spend time with people who make you feel good about yourself, and make time for them."
Jo Richards
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
Sir Winston Churchill
It is famously difficult to think outside the box, in part because we are the ones who built the box, and at the time it was an excellent box."
George Gillen
In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of effort is the measure of the results.
James Allen
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. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.
Dr. David M. Burns
"Answers given with authority negate the search for truth."
Neil Innes
"Only one-in-a-million will strive with full intent and courage to become the unique somebody that person was created and destined to be! And yet each of us was destined at birth to be a one-in-a-million person!"
Dr. William Mitchell
The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their "luck" arose from accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed.
Srully Blotnick
There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.
George Burton Adams
"If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability."
Henry Ford
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
James Allen
"When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The world we experience with our unaided senses is fluid and animate, shifting and transforming in response to our own shifts of position and of mood.
David Abram
"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."
Aristotle, Philosopher
The
greater 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
"Our best thinking is done twice, whereas our best intuition is done at once."
W. Leitzen
"A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others."
Dr. Joseph Collins
"It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop."
Confucius
Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
James Allen
"Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking-by all means ask!"
W. Clement Stone
"Miracles happen to those who believe in them."
Bernard Berenson
"More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man -- he -- himself."
Gabriel Heatter
While we wait for tomorrow, we must act for today.
Mani Sivasubramanian
"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater"
William Hazlitt
"A problem is your chance to do your best."
Duke Ellington
" We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action."
Frank Tibolt
Everybody can be great. . . because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path. "
Henry Winkler, Actor
You can
turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can
find humor in anything --even poverty--you can survive it.
Bill Cosby
"Love is the selfless promotion of the growth of the other. "
Milton Mayeroff
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
Albert Einstein, Physicist
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think."
Benjamin Disraeli
Be proactive. Ask yourself, "Are my actions based on self-chosen values or on my moods, feelings and circumstances?"
Steven Covey
The power of intention is a critical factor in all areas of life. Simply by intending to create synchronicity in your life, you can nurture that result.
Deepak Chopra
"Change cannot be avoided. Change provides the opportunity for innovation. It gives you the chance to demonstrate your creativity."
Keshavan Nair
Every human being possesses all 88 keys on the piano, but most of us restrict our melodies to the middle octave.
Gottesman and Mauro
"I think there is a great hunger within people to reach for the best in them."
Marty Rogol
"Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy."
Reba McEntire
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Tobias Wolff
"Who does not thank for little will not thank for much."
Estonian proverb
"The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillation, and the effect of decisiveness itself "makes things go" and creates confidence."
Anne O'Hare McCormick
"I will
persist until I succeed. I know that small attempts, repeated, will
complete any undertaking."
Og Mandino
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
Elbert Hubbard
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of GOD.
Karl Barth
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
Robert Heinlein
"By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible."
Italian Proverb
"Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact."
Willa Cather
Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly.
Frank Tyger
"The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others."
William Lyon Phelps
There is no independence quite so important as living within your means.
Calvin Coolidge
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
Albert Einstein
Excellence is the eternal quest. We achieve it by living up to our highest intellectual standards and our finest moral intuitions. In seeking excellence take life seriously--but never yourself!
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
"Look back to learn how to look forward."
Joe Girard
Poor performance anywhere in the ranks is just a symptom of poor leadership. Poor communication is just a symptom that our leadership is falling apart.
Patrick O'Flynn (NY) Sheriff
"Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend."
Walter Savage Landor
I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a "transformer" in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.
Steven R. Covey
"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity."
Louis Pasteur
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
Warren G. Bennis
"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will."
Zig Ziglar
Jingshen is the Mandarin word for spirit and vivacity. It is an important word for those who would lead, because above all things, spirit and vivacity set effective organizations apart from those that will decline and die.
James L. Hayes
"Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me."
Barbara Miller, Songwriter
Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.
Warren G. Bennis
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. Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
Warren G. Bennis
"Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it."
Mae West
"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."
Pamela Vaull Starr
Leaders have a guiding vision, a passion that allows them to communicate a sense of hope to followers. The key to this communication is not charisma (as many experts have maintained); what is required is integrity.
Bruce A. Pasternak
It's clear that when vision and strategy are communicated so that people throughout a firm can grasp them, it creates a favorable context that often leads to the emergence of new and unsuspected strategies.
David K. Hurst
"Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles."
Sir Thomas Browne
Warning! Nothing is permanent. Anything in excess is a poison. And remember: Everything in business is a paradox. To be excellent, you have to be consistent. When you're consistent, you're vulnerable to attack. Yes, it's a paradox. Now deal with it!
Tom Peters
"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band-Aid remedies never last."
Jack Nicklaus
"What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; oldness has genius, power and magic in it."
Johann von Goethe
"I would sooner live in a cottage and wonder at everything than live in a castle and wonder at nothing!"
Joan Winmill Brown
"He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous."
Sir Thomas Browne
"The real
measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all
your money."
Unknown
"The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed."
Alfred A. Montapert
"Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"He does not live in vain, who employs his wealth, his thought, his speed to advance the good of others."
Hindu Maxim
"Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside."
Dr. Melba Colgrove
"A person's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth."
Charles Darwin
"Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be."
Harvey Mackay
"Select a few people to be particularly kind to today, those you were a little harsh with yesterday."
Norman Vincent Peale
Though we seem to be sleeping, there is an inner wakefulness that directs the dream, and that will eventually startle us back to the truth of who we are.
RUMI
"A wise man turns chance into good fortune."
Thomas Fuller
"We must not bury our talents, but invest them, spend them, pour them out. Then we will have even more."
Zig Ziglar
Let me remember that each life must follow its own course, and that what happens to other people has absolutely nothing to do with what happens to me.
Marjorie Holmes
" A wise man will make more opportunities then he finds."
Sir Francis Bacon
"When learning about life and people, make no more assumptions than are absolutely necessary. Ask and observe."
Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm.
unknown
"Life is not measured by the breath we take but by the moments that take our breath away."
Words, good ideas and logic mean nothing to at least two of our three brains. Much of one's mind does not take orders.
"In a humble state, you learn better. I can't find anything else very exciting about humility, but at least there's that."
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music--the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
"Motivation isn't optional. Everyone is motivated to do nothing or do something, either negatively or positively. "
The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.
"Yes, there is Nirvana; it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.”
"All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them."
"The greater 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."
Fear Knocked, Faith Answered.
Unknown
One learns people through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.
"It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'"
" Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving."
" Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare."
Japanese proverb
Customers need something to participate in. If you allow your customers to participate in the brand, you have a much better chance of making an emotional connection that will have some sustainability.
"Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth."
The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost.
"Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching."
"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.'"
"I've never been poor--only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation."
Successful communication transforms your thoughts, will, and desire into action. It moves people. It transforms the thoughts, will and desires of others. What better word for this process than magic?
"I think success has no rules, but you can learn a lot from failure."
Jean Kerr
"Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate result of your life."
Research shows that for jobs of all kinds, emotional intelligence is twice as important an ingredient of outstanding performance as cognitive ability and technical skill combined, and the higher you go in the organization, the more important these qualities are for success. When it comes to leadership, they are almost everything.
Daniel Goleman
"What makes greatness is starting something that lives after you."
Ralph W. Sockman
"Sharing makes you bigger than you are. The more you pour out the more life will be able to pour in."
Jim Rohn
"Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind."
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing; others judge us by what we have done.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
"Stand for one distinctive thing that will give you a competitive advantage."
"'Work' is not the evil side of your life, and 'personal' is not the good side of your life. Your life is what you make it, and all components of it ultimately reinforce and enrich the others if you allow them to do so."
The best cure for a sluggish mind is to disturb its routine.
"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions."
Free speech is for bold people. Freedom of
conscience is for reasonable people.
Free enterprise is for honest people. Freedom of association is for energetic
people.
Gerald Johnson
"Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to persevere in the face of many difficult odds. There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it."
"Ability is of little account without opportunity."
Don't try so much to form your character -- it's like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose. Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
"Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often."
Samuel Butler
Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Without a gut-level sense that you are ultimately in control of what's happening to you, you won't even consider the option that you could manage it better.
"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. "
"People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates."
"There is no chance, no destiny, no fate that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul."
"The art of peace begins with you . . . foster peace in your own life and then apply the art to all you encounter."
"You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities."
"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door."
I will go anywhere as long as it is forward.
David Livingston
"Only that traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better."
"Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese."
"Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past."
"Security can only be achieved through constant change, through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts."
There is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
Albert Camus
"Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is to blame."
Perseverance: Fight the tendency to quit while you're behind.
Dave Weinbaum
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
If you want to achieve excellence you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.
"I must do the most productive thing possible at every given moment..."
Experience is the worst teacher, it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
"Nothing shapes our
journey through life so much as the questions we ask."
"High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation."
The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution but in working at it incessantly.
"We all have ability. The difference is how we use it."
Stevie Wonder
‘The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.”
I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And that which I can do, by the grace of God, I will do.
Dwight L. Moody
"You create your opportunities by asking for them."
"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind."
Henry James
Our strength is seen in the things we stand for; our weakness is seen in the things we fall for.
Theodore Epp
"Reflect upon your blessings, of which every man has plenty, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."
Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
Tacitus, c. A.D. 55-120
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
That's what freedom is all about a chance to be better.
Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for myself.
“Cooperation isn't the absence of conflict but a means of managing conflict.”
Deborah Tannen
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."
Time is the scarcest resource, and unless it is managed, nothing else can be managed.
"Adversity is a severe instructor ... He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper."
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them, nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which always comes to those who sincerely hope their dreams will come true.
To be nobody -- but yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
e. e. cummings
Busy, busy, busy we pass the days of our lives -- gone all too soon. Gone before we get to our dreams of creative expression, self-fulfillment, nurturing.
Carol Orsborn
"A picture may be worth a thousand words...But the negatives are worth one million dollars."
Erik Lee Beck
"I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. "
Aldous Leonard Huxley
At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections.
"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it."
"You will find as
you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are
the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love."
"If you want to conquer fear, don't sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy."
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
Bill Cosby
A "no" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it.
The Midrash
"There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit."
When I hear, I forget. When I see, I remember. And when I do, I understand.
Ancient Chinese
Proverb
The sting of failure is much less than the sting of regret.
Colle Davis
"The word listen contains the same letters as the word silent."
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book."
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.
Marcel Proust
"Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity."
Kahlil Gibran
"Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!"
Champions execute the fundamentals with unconscious competence. That means they've practiced the moves so many times in the past that they can do them almost perfectly without thinking about it. When you can perform brilliantly without thinking, you can perform at a very high level.
"Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it."
Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
"Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who hopes strongly, has within him the gift of miracles."
We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow.
Jonathan Westover
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
We are given one life, and the decision is whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
Omar Nelson Bradley
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."
Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
"When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves."
"Joy, has no cost."
Marianne Williamson
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
"Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great, make you feel that you too can become great."
More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else.
Plato
“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.”
Confucius
"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
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well."
Diane Ackerman
Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it.
"The fool wonders, the wise man asks."
Benjamin Disraeli, British
Prime Minister
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
Gandhi
"If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now. "
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The more you like and respect yourself, the more you like and respect others, and the more they like and respect you."
"You must look into people, as well as at them."
"Greet every person you meet cheerfully and enthusiastically. Nobody can fake cheerfulness and enthusiasm very long. You'll either quit trying or improve your outlook."
Nido Qubein
"The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy."
Jim Rohn
"Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again."
"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it."
William Durant
"It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow."
Harvey Mackay
"Learn to help people with more than just their jobs; help them with their lives."
"Manage by objectives. Tell people exactly what you want them to do and then get out of their way."
"People are your most valuable asset. Only people can be made to appreciate in value."
Stephen Covey
"Tell me, and I'll forget. Show me, and I'll remember. Involve me, and I'll learn."
"Every day is a good day to be alive, whether the sun's shining or not. "
Marty Robbins
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that is your own self.
Aldous Huxley
Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.
The Koran
The very act of believing creates strength of its own.
When we quit thinking primarily about our own self-preservation and ourselves we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
"The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face."
"We do not sing
because we are happy, we are happy because we sing.”
"You can increase your brain power three to fivefold simply by laughing and having fun before working on a problem. "
Doug Hall
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them. That is the essence of inhumanity.
Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.
“I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's.”
"I count him braver
who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest
victory is over self."
Aristotle
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love, it is the prerogative of the brave.
Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.
Maxwell Maltz
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
"Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with. "
The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.
"I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear -- the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about. "
A. L. Williams
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies within us while we live.
Norman Cousins
"Continuing to cling to the patterns you know inhibits your ability to discover what you don't know. "
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
Benjamin Spock, M.D.
We can best help others by living our own lives with integrity.
"The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others."
When the ego dies, the soul awakes.
"Fear of failure or success is one and the same. Both are fear of exposure. Not of our strengths, but of our weaknesses."
"How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness."
"You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it."
Charles Buxton
"Buried deep within each of us is a spark of greatness, a spark than can be fanned into flames of passion and achievement. That spark is not outside of you it is born deep within you."
"You are a
potential genius; there is no problem you cannot solve, and no answer you
cannot find somewhere."
"It matters only that you manifest your genius; it doesn't matter when. It's never too late or too early."
Mark Victor Hansen
We probably wouldn’t worry about people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
Olin Miller
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
"Fun is about as good a habit as there is."
What we must have--and I do mean 'must'--is a core competence in reinventing ourselves as the needs of our customer’s change with the marketplace.
"A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what a ship is built for."
"Pain comes like the weather, but joy is a choice."
The velocity of change in today's economy requires a steady commitment to your fundamental values. If you don't have something that your employees can hold on to, everything is up for grabs and people lose their way.
"Failure is the
condiment that gives success its flavor."
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp - or what's a heaven for?
"What you love to do is what you were born to do."
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
Chinese Proverb
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
Decouvertes
"Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely."
Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.
"If you wait until you are really sure, you’ll never take off the training wheels."
Cynthia Copeland Lewis
The best time to do something significant is between yesterday and tomorrow.
Unknown
"Every person you meet - and everything you do in life - is an opportunity to learn something. "
If I miss one day's practice, I notice it. If I
miss two day's, the critics notice it.
If I miss three days, the audience notices it.
"The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious."
Ideas will only get you so far these days. Count on personal relationships to carry you farther. The new economy is not just about the exchange of information. It's about the exchange of relationships.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
Robert Half
"When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won’t come up with a handful of mud either. "
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment to improve the world."
Anne Frank
By nurturing your personal relationships to help people excel, you build exponential impact in the marketplace. Ultimately, their success is your success.
Nothing important was ever achieved without someone taking a chance.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful -- a thought that is love."
Work Hard--Do your best--Keep your word--Never get too big for your britches--Trust in God--Have no fear--and Never forget a friend.
Harry S. Truman
You miss 100% of the shots you never take.
"When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective."
“This should be a man's attitude: 'Few things will disturb him at all; nothing will disturb him much.”
"Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued."
Jean De La Bruyere
The job of a good leader is to articulate a vision that others are inspired to follow.
"Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there."
The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
George Orwell
"No matter what you do, no matter how stupid, dumb or damaging you judge it to be, there is a lesson to be learned from it. No matter what happens to you, no matter how unfair, inequitable or wrong, there's something you can take from the situation and use for your advancement."
Even when you've played the game of your life, it's the feeling of teamwork that you'll remember. You'll forget the plays, the shots, and the scores, but you'll never forget your teammates.
"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age."
"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in."
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
Sam Ewig
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 much nor suffer much, because they live in a grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
Francis Bacon
"We write our own destiny. We become what we do."
The first art of a monarch is the power to endure hatred.
Seneca
"If you can give your children only one gift, let it be Enthusiasm!”
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
"Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got."
You want people who are smart about things that you're not smart about. You don't want 'yes people'--and you certainly don't want people who don't understand your mission.
“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.”
"Hate is a cancer that spreads one cell at a time. "
"To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves."
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I've learned that it's more important to hire people who stand behind your core values than it is to feed a growth rate with people who don't share those values.
"On course doesn't mean perfect. On course means that even when things don't go perfectly - you are still going in the right direction."
Charles Garfield
"Spread a little sunshine."
"If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that."
"Knock the 't' off the 'can't'"
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it."
Chinese proverb
"Four freedoms: The first is freedom of speech and expression - everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of everyone to worship God in his own way, everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want . . . everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear . . . anywhere in the world. "
Franklin D. Roosevelt, U.S.
President
Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.
The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability.
Fred A. Manske, Jr.
"Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets"
"Every little bit helps. Every little quit hurts."
Jim Zinger
The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
Blaine Lee
"A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people."
Will Rogers
"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."
"Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, can make anything he wants to make of himself."
A man who does not plan for long ahead will find trouble right at his door.
Confucius
At the beginning of anything out of the ordinary, the mass of people always dislike it.
"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.
Those who can command themselves command others.
"To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life."
Samuel Johnson
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still."
Chinese Proverb
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.
"It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy. "
Leadership's about making a vision happen--what I call 'vision acts.' If you say you're about something, then what activities in your company indicate the reality behind those words?
Lorraine Monroe
"The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something."
Carl Sandburg
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
Max De Pree
"Tune into your heart; you know all the answers."
Marsha Sinetar
"Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better."
John Updike
"Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late."
Rita Coolidge
To be thrown upon
one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our
faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were
previously unsusceptible.
Benjamin Franklin
"Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile."
Bertrand Russell
You were born into a sea of life existing in harmony with all others. You usually do things best when you do them with others, in cooperation, mutual trust, joy, and satisfaction.
Robert Conklin
"To be happy, drop the words "if only" and substitute instead the words "next time."
Smiley Blanton
If your business depends on you, you don't own a business - you have a job. And it's the worst job in the world because you're working for a lunatic!
Unknown
"I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all."
"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are; your reputation is merely what others think you are."
John Wooden
"The true courage of individualism is the ability to follow one's passion."
Shirley MacLaine
"My religion is simple, my religion is kindness."
Dalai Llama
"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company."
George
Washington
The quality of your business is determined by your personal qualities, as expressed through it.
"Happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you are lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love."
Adela Rogers
In a small business, the most important decisions you make are the things you decide not to do. So find what you're good at, and recognize where your weaknesses are. Then bring on an appropriate partner who can fill in the gap.
Laura Rippy
"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."
"Success depends above all, upon people. Build relationships, teams, partnerships -- and motivate people to contribute. Cultivate leadership, creativity, excellence. Listen; seek new ideas and advice. "
Ruth Scott
Technology can help us make "deposits," or cause us to make "withdrawals," in another person's emotional bank account. A deposit would be keeping a promise, being kind and courteous, clarifying expectations, making apologies, being open to feedback and being loyal to those who are absent.
There is nothing that more obviously separates the powerful from the powerless than graciousness.
Sherry Suib Cohen
"Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift."
“Joy is not in things! It is in us!”
Ben Franklin
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
John Lennon
Choice means freedom. Freedom is a terrible burden, but there is no escaping it.
Andrew M. Greeley
"Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other -- it doesn't matter who it is -- and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other."
Mother Teresa
"The truth, being precious, is best offered as a gift."
Honey Judith Rubin
"Action eradicates fear. No matter what you fear, positive, self-affirming action can diminish or completely cancel that which you are fearful of."
Mark Victor Hansen
Marketing is everything you do to promote your business, from the moment you conceive of it to the point at which customers buy your product or service and begin to patronize your business on a regular basis.
"If you do the best you can, you will find, nine times out of ten, that you have done as well as or better than anyone else."
William Feather
Logic is a wonderful thing. A boring truth seldom taught in success seminars is that clear, logical thinking and simply plodding ahead with a plan are great tools for success in life.
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
William James
Anger is an appropriate response to injustice, so long as it does not exist primarily as an emotional release for the angry person.
"Your work is to discover your work, and then with all your heart to give yourself to it."
Buddha
We are not physical beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a physical experience.
Edgar Cayce
"To me the desire to create and to have control over your own life, irrespective of the politics of the time or social structures, has always been a part of the human spirit. What I did not fully realize was that work could open the doors to my heart."
Anita Roddick
"If more people really pondered how much is enough in their lives, perhaps there would be a lot more truly satisfied folks in this world."
Take responsibility. Act fast. Be Thorough.
When prospects seem to care only about price, it's usually just an illusion--a smoke screen. They will tell you they have found a better price. What they mean is that they found someone who understood their needs better, someone who articulated this understanding better than you did, and who listened to what they said and responded appropriately.
"They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. "
"The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success."
"You find that you have piece of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a 100 percent effort that you gave - win or lose."
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances."
Victor Frankl
If I know what my personal values are or what my company priorities are, I know what NOT to do, and I know what NOT to worry about. I can focus on what my task is.
Alvin Hoffler
"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
Mark Twain
Real maturity begins when you finally realize that no one is coming to the rescue.
Brian Tracy
"Happiness is not something you experience... it's something you remember."
"I think, at a
child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the
most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity."
"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 realizes itself."
There is an artist within each person, and everybody has the capacity to find creative genius in themselves.
When you renounce something, you're stuck to it forever. When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you fight it, you are giving it power. You give it as much power as you are using to fight it... Don't renounce it, see through it. Understand its true value and you won't need to renounce it; it will just drop from your hands.
"At their deepest level people never fall in love accidentally. They simply grow tired of living without passion, and having made this unconscious decision they open up once more and allow themselves to receive love."
When you're ready to exchange your illusions for reality, when you're ready to exchange your dreams for facts, that's the way you find it all. That's where life finally becomes meaningful. Life becomes beautiful.
Anthony de Mello
"When I started
counting my blessings, my whole life turned around."
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Mohandas Gandhi
It is not what name others call you that matters, but what name you respond to that truly determines who you are.
Swahili Saying
The flack is always the heaviest closest to the target.
Boyd K. Packer
To many people spend money they haven’t earned to but things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.
Will Rogers
Pain is inevitable, Suffering is optional.
unknown
"Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines"
"Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons."
Ruth Ann Schabacker
Your work is to discover your work and then, with all your heart, to give yourself to it.
Buddha
Look around. Ask questions. Why are there tattoo parlors springing up in trendy neighborhoods? Why are some baby boomers moving in with their kids? Answering them isn't as important as constantly looking at the world in different ways and realizing that very few people live the way you do. If you can't draw from new perspectives, how can you create anything that will be meaningful to anyone but yourself?
"The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions."
"When we are the most overwhelmed, we are the least resourceful."
Anthony Robbins
"Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good."
Ben Hogan, Golfer
"Life is like a field of newly fallen snow. Where I choose to walk, every step will show."
Entrepreneurship is like camping. You're complaining the whole time, but when you look back at it, you think, "That was pretty neat."
Jim Steiner
"You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now."
Joan Baez
"Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed."
Michael Pritchard
"Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving, if your sights are set far above the merely secure and mediocre."
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death, can erase our good deeds.
Budda
If you have an ability that no one else has, it's your responsibility to use it. You never know who will benefit from that.
The man who can own up to his own error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.
Cardinal de Retz
"The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right."
"Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor."
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
"We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another."
Folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do. It aggravates them. You're not gonna change any of them by talkin' right, they've got to want to learn themselves.
Lee Harper
"The vast majority of people have the deeply entrenched conviction that "success" promotes happiness. But it is not success that promotes happiness. When you genuinely enjoy your life, you are successful in the only real meaning of the term!"
You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.
Anonymous
Don't be afraid to give up the good for the great.
Kenny Rogers
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
Henry Ford
Know how to listen and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
Plutarch
"Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs."
Maxwell Maltz
Laughing is inner jogging.
Norman Cousins
Change is inevitable, growth is intentional.
Glenda Cloud
"Courage changes things for the better ... [With courage you can] stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped."
Earl Nightingale
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
"Out of clutter, find Simplicity. From discord, find Harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
Be yourself. No one can ever tell you you're doing it wrong.
James Leo Herlihy
"People frequently say to me you're such a free spirit! Aren't spirits made to be free? We are all free spirits. We must choose to practice freedom."
Sark, Author
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
Richard Bach
"In nature there are neither rewards or punishments - there are consequences."
Robert G Ingersoll
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs."
A lot of people
think that the new economy has new truths. It doesn't. The old truths are
still there -- the new economy just has new risks and new opportunities.
There is a slightly
odd notion in business today that things are moving so fast that strategy
becomes an obsolete idea. This is a mistake. If you do not develop a strategy
of your own, you become part of someone else's strategy.
"To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own."
Abraham Lincoln
"An individual's self-concept is the core of his personality. It affects every aspect of human behavior: the ability to learn, the capacity to grow and change... A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success in life."
"Unless you change how you are, you'll always have what you've got."
"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."
Theodore Roosevelt
"Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves, their strengths, their values and how they best perform. "
The two most primitive ways to motivate people are threats and bribery. And neither works very well in the long run.
John J. Clancy
"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."
Louisa May Alcott
If you're doing it all, you do not have it all.
Peggy Orenstein
Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.
Albert Camus
To begin is the hard part.
Cowboy Bob
"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge one for yourself."
James A. Froude
"Luck is the residue of design."
Branch Rickey
"We know that people we love are both good and bad, but we expect strangers to be one or the other."
Russell Banks
We've already moved from management to leadership--and we're about to go beyond leadership to inspiration.
Kevin Roberts
"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. "
Leo Buscaglia
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."
Helen Keller
"If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting but I would have to decline, for life would no longer teach me anything."
Allyson Jones
"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way."
"Ignorance breeds
fear; the more you learn about your subject, the less fear it holds for you."
"Don't fear failure
so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life
contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have."
Louis E. Boone
"Most people are paralyzed by fear. Overcome it and you take charge of your life and your world."
"Get excited and enthusiastic about your own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away."
Denis Waitley
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Francois, Duc de la
Rochefoucauld
"Quality is not an act. It is a habit."
In the 21st century, organizations have to achieve peak performance through inspiration by unleashing the power of their people--not by leading them, not by managing them, but by inspiring them.
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
Walt Disney
"You don't see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it."
Thomas Kuhn
A first-time entrepreneur faces perhaps no challenge greater than learning how to be the boss.
Wisdom begins in wonder.
Being on the
tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
Karl Wallenda
"Destiny is as destiny does. If you believe you have no control, then you have no control."
Wess Roberts
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
"Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day."
"To have more than you've got, become more than you are."
Jim Rohn
"He turns not back who is bound to a star."
Leonardo da Vinci
Life is a sort of splendid torch which I've got to hold up for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
George Bernard Shaw
When someone shows you who they are, believe them.
Maya Angelou
"Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival."
"It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself."
Barbara Sher
"Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is illness. It all stems from ignorance."
Jim Rohn
Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases, think for yourself.
Louisa May Alcott
"An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity."
Winston Churchill
Leaders who use the heavy hand of persuasion in their desire to get things done are perceived as manipulative, pushy, and controlling. Inspiration, on the other hand, motivates people to function as adults.
Don Posterski & Gary Nelson
If you ever listen to Sinatra sing, it sounds as if he's singing directly to you. That was Sinatra's great skill, and that's what we try to achieve in our business. We want to connect with people on a human level -- to touch them in some way.
George Forrester Colony
"Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack. "
Harry Emerson Fosdick
"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation."
Pearl S. Buck
"Our chief want in life is having someone who will make us do what we can."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Everything starts with yourself - with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life."
Tony Dorsett
Our greatest glory is not in ever falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius
The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.
Anonymous
"A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror."
Ken Keyes Jr.
Without love in the dream it will never come true.
Robert Hunter
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
Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it."
M. Scott Peck
"He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skills. Our antagonist is our helper."
Edmund Burke
"To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe."
Marilyn vos Savant
"He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home."
Joehann Von Goethe
You must first get along with yourself before you can get along with others.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
Destiny is not a matter of chance it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to waited for it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"When enthusiasm is inspired by reason, controlled by caution, sound in theory, practical in application, reflects confidence, spreads good cheer, raises morale, inspires associates, arouses loyalty, and laughs at adversity, it is beyond price. "
Coleman Cox
It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
J. K. Rowling
"I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of quiet life stimulates the creative mind."
Albert Einstein
Highly creative people don't necessarily excel in raw brainpower. They are misfits on some level. They tend to question accepted views and to consider contradictory ones.
G. Pascal Zachary
"When a person makes a promise, he stretches himself out into circumstances that no one can control and controls at least one thing: he will be there no matter what the circumstances turn out to be."
Lewis Smedes
It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, 'How good or bad am I?' That's where the courage comes in.
Erma Bombeck
"We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view."
Mao Tse-tung, Chinese leader
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
Leonardo da Vinci
"Surely joy is the condition of life."
Henry David Thoreau
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.
Henry David Thoreau
"Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays."
A lot of our 'busy-ness' is a way for us to avoid thinking about what is most important. There's a difference between being busy and being productive.
Kristen Lippincott
"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."
Benjamin Disraeli
"Play. . . is the mechanism that allows us to continue to explore as adults."
“Ideas are worthless. Intentions have no power. Plans are nothing . . . unless they are followed with action. Do it now!”
"Love is a better master than duty."
Albert Einstein
Capital is great to have, but in almost every business we know of, you've got to have the right people, and you've got to give them time to be successful. If you don't do that and don't have the right support systems in place, it doesn't matter how much money you have. You can lose it very quickly.
"Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes."
Ben Franklin
"I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views."
Abraham Lincoln
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind."
William James
Hofstadter's Law: The time and effort required to complete a project are always more than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Hofstadter
"The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way."
Keanu Reeves
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
James Barrie
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
Seneca
If you can get
people to accept, embrace, adore, and cherish your ideas, you win! You win
financially, you gain power, and you change the world.
Seth Goodwin
"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these."
George Washington Carver
"To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."
Elbert Hubbard
"If you don't have a vision, then your reality will always be determined by other's perceptions."
Melanée Addison
Success is all about having the right people and making sure that they're happy, dedicated, and sharing in your profits.
Michael Stern
"Every dawn, each man is offered, again, the freedom of choice . . . While life remains, there is always the opportunity to remake the world."
Jim Coleman
"The squeaky wheel doesn't always get greased; it often gets replaced."
John Peers
"You get what you consistently focus on."
Anthony Robbins
The most important factor in any business isn't the equipment or the marketing -it's the people who are working with you and for you.
Michael Stern
"It only takes one person to change your life -- you."
Ruth Casey
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Lou Holtz
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
Harvey Mackay
"Never do any more work than is necessary to get the results you want."
Bill Marvin
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
If you want to be creative, don't try to do something new. Doing something new means NOT doing what's been done before, and that's a negative impulse. Negative impulses are frustrating. They're the opposite of creativity, and they never yield good ideas...
Eva Zeisel
"To keep your resolve surround yourself with those who want you to succeed. The brain cannot do its job of protecting the body without contact with other people."
Robert Ornstein and David Sobel
"The process of unlearning traditional ways of approaching and solving problems takes time and is hard."
Peter Jablow
"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."
Naguib Mahfouz
The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings.
David Weinbaum
Tell me what you think and then tell me what the really smart person in the room who disagrees with you thinks.
Aaron Sorkin
"Live your life so that your children can tell their grandchildren that you not only stood for something wonderful - you acted on it."
Dan Zadra
"Hope is a risk that must be run."
George Bernanos
Work should be a place of community, where people can be honest and genuine in their interactions. If you want people to care about carrying out your company's mission, create a workplace that cares about them through policies as well as through relationships.
Nathan Baxter
"A life spent chasing other people's approval is a life spent on a pointless roller coaster of emotional high and lows, without ever knowing yourself."
Rinatta Paries
"Income seldom exceeds personal development."
Jim Rohn
"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
Trust, which is the glue of business, is created by dependability, quality content, and intimacy with clients. Of those elements, intimacy is the hardest to achieve.
George Forrest
"If you want to achieve excellence you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work".
Thomas Watson, Founder of IBM
"I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love."
Mother Teresa
"Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path, and leave a trail."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Louis Bergson
The key thing to remember is not that we need to be fast but that we are running a race that has no finish line. So the fuel that drives us needs to be made of something substantial -- something for the heart that the head can also follow.
Vincent Kralyevich
"God gave us memories so that we might have roses in December."
James M. Barrie
"We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living."
Tryon Edwards
SUCCESS - Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Vince Lombardi
"Most of us miss out on life's big prizes. The Pulitzer. The Nobel. Oscars. Tonys. Emmys. But we're all eligible for life's small pleasures. A pat on the back.
A kiss behind the ear. A four-pound bass. A full moon. An empty parking space. A crackling fire. A great meal. A glorious sunset. Hot soup. Cold beer. Don't fret about copping life's grand rewards. Enjoy its tiny delights. There are plenty for all of us."
United Technologies Corporation advertisement
PREPARATION - The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.
Duke of Wellington
Entrepreneurs come all the time with little ideas that could be big ideas, but they just haven't pushed them far enough. Part of the reason is they just don't understand what a big idea is. And part of the reason is that they're trying to reduce risk. You can't afford to do that now. You have to take on risk. You have to take big, bold
steps.
Ruthann Quindlen
"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment."
Georgia O'Keefe
"Visualize, 'prayerize,' 'actionize,' and your wishes will come true."
Charles L. Alan
“I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success -- the earliest spark in the dreaming youth - is this; dream a great dream.”
John A. Appleman
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Henry Ford
Champions aren't made in the gym. Champions are made from something
they have deep inside them -- a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
Muhammed Ali
"Thought is free."
William Shakespeare
PREPARATION - Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
Thomas A. Edison
"Learn to use ten minutes intelligently. It will pay you huge dividends."
William A. Irwin
"When there is no vision, people perish."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Don’t make excuses. Make things happen. Make changes. Then make history.”
Doug Hall
“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.”
T.S. Eliot, poet
What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step toward something better.
Wendell Phillips
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
It is the application of your knowledge that brings you joy.
Rev. Michael Beckwith
Determinism is the cards you are dealt. Free will is how you play them.
Nehru
"One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time."
Robert F. Kennedy
The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
Vince Lombardi
If people knew how hard I have had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful.
Michelangelo
"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
John Wooden
"The goal of effective communication should be for listeners to say, "Me, too!" verses "So what?"
Jim Rohn
"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."
Vincent Van Gogh
The key to sustained business success on the Internet is continuous learning. As the world moves faster and competition becomes steeper, knowledge becomes the differentiating factor between people at the head of the pack and the ones that are left behind.
Stephen P. Gott
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
George Sands
“Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger - because when you do, you find out you can do it.”
William Sessions
Life is a mystery to be discovered, not a problem to be solved.
Anonymous
Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare,
and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
Peter Seller
Confidence is the result of hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.
Roger Staubach
"Fortune sides with him who dares."
Virgil
"We cannot live a choiceless life. Every day, every moment, every second, there is a choice. If it were not so we would not be individuals."
Ernest Holmes
"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish".
John Quincy Adams
Real communication happens when people feel safe.
Ken Blanchard
"He that is over-cautious will accomplish little."
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
"The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others."
Homer
The only victory that counts is the one over yourself.
Jesse Owens
"I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage. I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true."
Arsenio Hall
"Goodness is the only investment that never fails."
Henry David Thoreau
We need to speak and be silent, to reflect intelligently and play outrageously, to simply delight in the magnificence of each other.
Aaron Silverberg
“Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!”
Anne Frank
"Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action."
William James
“Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.”
Leonardo da Vinci
The difference between a successful person and others, is not a lack of strength, nor a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Vince Lombardi
"Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience."
Eddie Rickenbacker
The greatness of Michael Jordan is his competitive drive; the weakness of Michael Jordan is his competitive drive.
Phil Jackson
SUCCESS - Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein
"Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge."
Kahlil Gibran
"Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted," "Only in quiet mind is adequate perception of the world."
Hans Margolius.
"Opportunities multiply as they are seized; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities."
John Wicker
"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."
Pamela Vaull Starr
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw
Keep your head up; act like a champion.
Paul
"Every great success is an accumulation of thousands of ordinary efforts that no one sees or appreciates."
Brian Tracy
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
"Goodwill to others ... helps build you up. It is good for your body. It makes your blood purer, your muscles stronger, and your whole form more symmetrical in shape. It is the real elixir of life."
Prentice Mulford
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Bernard M. Baruch
"What's gone and what's past help, should be past grief."
William Shakespeare
"Forgive and forget."
Anonymous
"Let bygones be bygones."
Anonymous
Life is too short not to make it your big moment.
Coach E
"The greatest good we can do for others is not to share OUR riches, but to assist in revealing their OWN".
Benjamin Disraeli
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters-one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.
John F. Kennedy, 1959 (quoting Saul David Alinsky)
Information isn't wisdom. Information isn't learning. If information were learning, you could be educated by memorizing the world almanac. If you did that, you wouldn't be educated. You'd be weird.
David McCullough
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Samuel Johnson
"When one door closes another one opens; but we often look so long and regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us".
Alexander Graham Bell
"Life is a wonderful, wonderful experience. I wish it lasted longer."
Virginia L. Walz
You have the power to declare the person you are becoming.
Joe Marino
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success.
Dorthea Brande
Money is not a problem until I believe it will solve my problems.
Unknown
"Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path, and leave a trail."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Walk together, talk together. Then and only then shall there be peace."
(motto of the American Field Service).
"Man will know himself only if he knows all the ways of being human. To achieve that, he must leave home in order to find himself."
Marcel Ganet
No belief is neutral. Every one has the power to dictate each decision you make. For a decision is a conclusion based on everything that you believe.
A Course in Miracles
"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say".
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every thought you have makes up some segment of the world you see. It is with your thoughts, then, that we must work, if your perception of the world is to be changed. Nothing but your own thoughts can hamper your progress.
A Course in Miracles
What you do comes from what you think.
A Course in Miracles
I never wear a watch, because I always know it's now -- and now is when you should do it.
Steve Mariucci
"Luck is believing you're lucky."
Tennessee Williams
"Not everything that counts can be counted; and not everything that can be counted counts."
Albert Einstein
You can always find reasons to work. There will always be one more thing to do. But when people don't take time out, they stop being productive. They stop being happy, and that affects the morale of everyone around them.
Carisa Bianchi
"It's easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting."
Millard Fuller
"Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it."
Groucho Marx, Entertainer
"Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in hopes that a cow will back up to them."
Curtis Grant
The mind is very powerful, and never loses its creative force. It never sleeps. Every instant it is creating. It is hard to recognize that thought and belief combine into a power surge that can literally move mountains.
A Course in Miracles
"Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment."
Maxwell Maltz
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
T. S. Eliot
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
Warren Buffet
It is impossible to learn anything consistently in a state of panic.
A Course in Miracles
"Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C's. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence, when you believe in a thing, believe
Walt Disney
"Who does not thank for little will not thank for much."
Estonian proverb
Never doubt in the dark what you saw in the light.
Unknown
"Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving."
W.T. Purkiser
"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral."
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
“If you want to be prosperous for a year, grow grain. If you want to be prosperous for ten years, grow trees. If you want to be prosperous for a lifetime, grow people.”
Proverb
"There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen."
Wayne Dyer
"The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; the optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
L.P. Jacks
"Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness."
Jim Rohn
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all of the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
A Course in Miracles
Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.
Ivern Ball
True words aren't eloquent; eloquent words aren't true. Wise men don't need to prove their point; men who need to prove their point aren't wise.
#8l in Tao Te Ching
"Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness."
James Thurber:
"To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious."
Samuel Butler
"Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment."
Robert Collier
When in crisis or danger, our instinct is to fight or flee. But those reactions constrict your ability to respond thoughtfully. Identify the breakdown in communication that created the crisis. Then address that breakdown instead of fighting it.
Ronit Herzfeld
"Just as there are three R's there are also three A's of business life. They are: Ability, Ambition, and Attitude. Ability establishes what a worker does and will bring him a paycheck. Ambition determines how much he does and will get him a raise. Attitude guarantees how well he does.
Wilbert E. Sheer
"The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire."
Brian Tracy
The skilled and confident communicator opens doors, builds new relationships, serves others effectively and enhances one's own leadership.
Craig Harrison
"Don't confuse perception with intention".
Damian Zikakis
"Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of
today?"
Mary Manin Morrissey, author
The new economy is simultaneously more niche-oriented and more global. So we need to learn to perform effectively throughout that spectrum -- to address not only the urgent and the local, but also the important and the vast.
Stewart Brand
"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
"Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy. You might know how to read, but more importantly, what's your plan to read?"
Jim Rohn
"Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become."
Jim Rohn
"The difference between a Vision and a hallucination is whether anyone else can see it."
Terry Paulson, Ph.D
"As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time."
John Mason
Quality talent matters, but leaving positions open for too long while waiting for quality' is a mistake. Don't compromise on quality, but don't delay hiring either. You need to be fully staffed to attack the market.
Mike Maples
"He who stops being better stops being good."
Oliver Cromwell
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.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Successful people tend to approach situations by relying on past experiences in similar situations. Instead of doing what they normally do, which is always trying to be fast and efficient, I tell people to slow down. Never go with the first answer. Listen to the whole idea and try to figure out how to make it an even better solution.
Bob Moog
"Develop an attitude of gratitude and give thanks for everything that happens to you-- knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation."
Brian Tracy
"Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path, and leave a trail."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is no use saying 'we are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary"
Sir Winston Churchill
"Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible."
Cherie Carter-Scott
"In discussing an approach to bringing about positive changes within oneself, learning is only the first step. There are other factors as well: conviction,
determination, action and effort."
Dalai Lama from The Art of Happiness
"Here's a test to find whether your mission in life is finished. If you're alive, it isn't!"
Richard Bach, author
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment."
Jim Rohn
"Your state of mind creates your state of results."
Mark Victor Hansen
"Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will."
Jawaharlal Nehru
We've become enamored with deadlines. We want to feel an adrenaline rush. We believe that if we're always chasing the next deadline, we must be important. A lot of our 'busy-ness' is a way for us to avoid thinking about what is most important. There's a difference between being busy and being productive.
Kristen Lippincott
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
A question that all businesses must answer is, 'Which customers do we want to target?' Companies need to identify their die-hard customers, figure out what those customers want, and then bring that to them.
Martha Rogers
"He lives long that lives well, and time misspent is not lived but lost."
Thomas Fuller
"Sometimes you just have to take the leap and build your wings on the way down."
Kobi Yamada
"It's easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting."
Millard Fuller (founder of Habitat for Humanity)
"You are what you think about all day long."
Dr. Robert Schuller
"What the mind of a man can conceive and believe the mind of a man can achieve."
Napoleon Hill
"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you."
James Allen
"Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success."
Stephen Covey
"You cannot succeed by yourself. It's hard to find a rich hermit."
Jim Rohn
"Light is the task where many share the toil."
Homer
"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Helen Keller
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
Norman MacEwan
"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity
of imagination."
John Dewey
"Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals."
Jim Rohn
"See the good... BE the good."
Peggy Moretti
Let me give you a leadership secret - one that you just won't find in your everyday book on leadership. It's a secret that most people would rather avoid. This secret is a powerful truth and one you might not be ready to accept, so prepare yourself. Here it is: Leadership is work! There, I've said it! Leadership is work - hard work!
Nelson Searcy and Chad Hall
"Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power
to harm us."
Voltaire
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw
"Change your thoughts and you change your world."
Norman Vincent Peale
"Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path, and leave a trail."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Your imagination has much to do with your life . . . It is for you to decide how you want your imagination to serve you."
Philip Conley
"It takes time to build a corporate work of art. It takes time to build a life. And it takes time to develop and grow. So give yourself, your enterprise, and your family the time they deserve and the time they require."
Jim Rohn
Can I do something about it? If the answer is 'Yes,' you work out a plan - there is no crisis. If the answer is 'No,' there is no crisis.
Unknown
The biggest moneymakers in any organization are always the people who know how to be different.
Tom Turpin
"Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding."
Harvey Mackay
"When every physical and mental resources is focused-one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously."
Norman Vincent Peale
"The first quality of courage is the willingness to launch with no guarantees. The second quality of courage is the ability to endure when there is no success in sight."
Brian Tracy
"Failure is always a safe, familiar, no-risk refuge, a known experience; it focuses no new of testing responsibilities upon one. Success, on the other hand, is unknown territory and a high-risk business; the very life-style it imposes if full of relentless demands for even better performances and achievements."
Alan H. Olmstead
"You pay only once for education and you continue to reap its rewards for the rest of your life... For ignorance you pay continuously it has no rewards!"
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Life skills are so much better than rules, because they help you figure out what's right and what's wrong.
Amanda Lewis
"All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude."
Harvey Mackay
"No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourselves."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes but they don't quit."
Conrad Hilton
Man's mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good."
Brian Tracy
We often let time pass by without making any real use of it. Instead, look at your day, and ask yourself, 'What would I really enjoy? What would I like to do? Whom would I like to be with?'
Garrett Oliver
"Self-preservation has a tendency to lead to poverty."
Jim Rohn
"There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity."
Nathaniel Branden
"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
In healthy communities of the future, the old spirit of competition will give way to the power of collaboration. Society is too complex for individuals to go it alone anymore. As the generations establish common ground, they will learn to appreciate one another for their disparate talents.
Lewis Jaffe
"Silent and listen are spelled with the same letters!"
Unknown
"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers."
Kahlil Gibran
Leadership is all about making and taking: making decisions and taking action.
W. Leitzen
Greatness comes with recognizing that your potential is limited only by how you choose, how you use your freedom, how resolute you are, how persistent you are -- in short, by your attitude.
Peter Koestenbaum, Philosopher
"It may be that those who do most, dream most."
Stephen Leacock
"One can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."
Plato
"My future is one I must make myself."
Louis L'Amour
"You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old."
George Burns
Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing.
Helen Keller
"People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be - not what you nag them to be."
S.N. Parker
"All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude."
Harvey Mackay
"When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'"
Sydney Harris
"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances."
Martha Washington
"There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
Albert Einstein
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It's what sunflowers do."
Helen Keller
"The first quality of courage is the willingness to launch with no guarantees. The second quality of courage is the ability to endure when there is no success in sight."
Brian Tracy
"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure."
Norman Vincent Peale
"Power comes through cooperation, independence through service, and a greater
self through selflessness."
John Heider, The Tao of Leadership
"All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art."
Pablo Picasso
DEEP PLAY: 1. A state of unselfconscious engagement with your surroundings. 2. An exalted zone of transcendence over time. 3. A state of optimal creative capacity.
Diane Ackerman, Deep Play
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Michael J. Fox
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
"We must learn to apply all that we know so that we can attract all that we want."
Jim Rohn
It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to.
Sondra Anice Barnes
"Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins."
Jim Rohn
"Have confidence in your decisions. Make them expeditiously, and stay with them as long as you believe you are correct no matter what others say. However, when
you conclude you were in error, do not hesitate to announce the error publicly and change course."
Edward J. Koch
Whenever anything is being done, I have learned, it is being done by a monomaniac with a mission.
Peter Drucker
What you have to do, you do with play.
Joseph Campbell
The harder you chase something, the faster you go -- and the less you're able to let life meet life. If you're having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down ... Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else.
Natalie Goldberg
"Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability."
Werner Karl Heisenberg
"Enthusiasm moves the world."
J. Balfour
"Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled."
Dorothea Brande
"All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."
James Russell Lowell
"Most people never run far enough on their first wind, to find out if they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you."
William James
Creativity comes from accepting that you're not safe, from being absolutely aware, and from letting go of control. It's a matter of seeing everything -- even when you want to shut your eyes.
Madeleine L'Engle
"The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them."
Jim Rohn
"It's easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor."
Ray Kroc
"Nobody's opinion matters more than your own."
Jim Zinger
"What's important to me is not what other people think, but what I think of myself.
Unknown
Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize
not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.
Cherie Carter-Scott
Is not life a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Friedrich Neitzsche
"Getting ideas is like shaving; if you don't do it every day, you're a bum."
Alexander Kroll
"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."
William Arthur Ward
"A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away."
Charles Schwab
"He who moves not forward, goes backward."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change, you will change."
unknown
"In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high."
Henry David Thoreau
Not I -- Not anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.
Walt Whitman
"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."
Napolean Hill
"The future is the shape of things to come."
H.G. Wells
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
William James
Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down.
Hitopadesa
We will either find a way, or make one.
Hannibal
Anxiety is the experience of growth itself.... Anxiety that is denied makes us ill; anxiety that is fully confronted and fully lived through converts itself into joy, security, strength, centeredness, and character. The practical formula: Go where the pain is.
Peter Koestenbaum
Creativity helps us realize that we don't have to understand everything. We can enjoy something --feel it and use it-- without ever fully comprehending it.
Faith Ringgold
"Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy. You might know how to read, but more importantly, what's your plan to read?"
Jim Rohn
"The trouble with many plans is that they are based on the way things are now. To be successful, your personal plan must focus on what you want, not what you have."
Nido Qubein
"Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised."
Denis Waitley
"Plan your work and work your plan. Decide in advance exactly how you are going to get from where you are to where you want to go."
Brian Tracy
"Never let your memories be greater than your dreams."
Doug Ivester
"I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams."
Dr. Jonas Salk
"At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable."
Christopher Reeves
"Live out of your imagination, not your history."
Stephen Covey
"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."
William Arthur Ward
We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive.
Joseph Campbell
"Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch."
Ivern Ball
"You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love."
Henry Drummond
I exist as I am, that is enough.
Walt Whitman
“Be” the change you seek in the world."
Ghandi
"Criticizing others is a dangerous thing, not so much because you may make mistakes about them, but because you may be revealing the truth about yourself."
Harold Medina
Be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.
Rainer Maria Rilke
"Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force."
Tom Blandi
"Misfortune tell us what fortune is."
Thomas Fuller
"Destiny is not a matter of chance--it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for--it a thing to be achieved."
William Jennings Bryan
Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire.
William Butler Yeats
"The mind cannot survive on junk food alone. Nourish it, just as you would your body."
Robert Imbriale
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
Joseph Campbell
"Our beliefs can move us forward in life -- or they can hold us back."
Oprah Winfrey
"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
"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are."