Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. - St. Teresa of Avila
No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change. - Barbara De Angelis


Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments. - Napoleon Hill
In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong, honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes. - John Ruskin

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. - John Adams


None will improve your lot if you yourself do not. - Bertolt Brecht, 1933
"When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place." - Bhagavad Gita
I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through ?then follow through. - Captain Edward V. Rickenbacker


You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. - Eleanor Roosevelt
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing is best after all. - Benjamin Spock
People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser, and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic. - John Ruskin


To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. - William Hazlitt
There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. - Elisabeth Guizot
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it. - Margaret Thatcher


Let everyone sweep in front of his own door and the whole world will be clean. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it. I think if you are determined enough and willing to pay the price, you can get it done. - Mike Ditka
If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life. - Abraham H. Maslow


Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. - James Buckham
The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. - Charles Du Bos
The most damaging phrase in the language is: "It's always been done that way." -Rear Admiral Grace Hopper


Progress in every age results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done. - Russell W. Davenport
"The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity. - Arthur James Balfour
I know a lot of people without brains who do an awful lot of talking. - The Scarecrow, Wizard of Oz


Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady. -Thomas H. Huxley
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. - Wayne Dyer
You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you. - Barbara Sher

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. - Lao-Tzu
The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart ?this you will build your life by, and this you will become. - James Lane Allen
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. - Kahlil Gibran


So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would be foolish to despair of the human race. - Ernest L. Woodward
When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life. - Greg Anderson
I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views. - Abraham Lincoln

Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us. - James Harvey Robinson
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist. - M ary Kay Ash
Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think. - Dale Carnegie

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. -Dr. Denis Waitley
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.- Glenn Clark
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. - Elizabeth Bibesco

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. - Thomas Jefferson
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
Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into. -Wayne Dyer

Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure. - Jim Rohn
The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything. - Theodore Roosevelt
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave. - Andrew Carnegie

If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness. - Les Brown
Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values. - Joshua L. Liebman
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. - Harriet Beecher Stowe

He who has learned to disagree without being disagreeable has discovered the most valuable secret of a diplomat. - Robert Estabrook
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. - James Allen
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it. - William James

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble." - Helen Keller
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher. -Dalai Lama
It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test. - Elbert Hubbard

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
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Yearn to understand first and to be understood second. - Beca Allen

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. - Charles Kingsley
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves. - Sir James M. Barrie
Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is to blame. -Erica Jong

Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade? - Benjamin Franklin
Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly. - Bertrand Russell
I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. - General George S. Patton
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give happiness. - Thomas Jefferson
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. - Napoleon Hill

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. - Anne Frank
It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier. - Thomas Robert Gaines
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. - John Wooden

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. - Norman Vincent Peale
It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. - Mabel Newcomber
When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it's two hours. That's relativity. - Albert Einstein

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul. - Charles Buxton
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. - John Milton
Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying. - Harry Anderson, "Night Court"

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident. - Charles Lamb
Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has. - Michelangelo

Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life. - Ann Landers
More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams. - Amy Grant
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you. - Tony Dorsett

It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The shy man will not learn; the impatient man should not teach. - Hillel
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. - Indira Gandhi

Bad habits are like chains that are too light to feel until they are too heavy to carry. - Warren Buffet
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. - Francis Bacon
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams. - Og Mandino

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him. - Honore De Balzac
Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success. - Diana Rankin

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to. - Kahlil Gibran
In the final analysis there is no solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the day's generous utterances and the day's good deed. - Clare Booth Luce
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know EXACTLY what you want...and are fully determined not to quit until you get it. - Alexander Graham Bell
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. - Galbraith's Law

"The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be." - Socrates
"Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory." - Les Brown
Courage is the mastery of fear, not the absence of fear. - Mark Twain

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become. - Jim Rohn
Optimisn is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other - Brian Tracy
Lack of forgiveness cuases almost all of our self-sabotaging behavior. - Mark Victor Hansen

"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." - Mark Twain
"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure." - Abraham Lincoln
"Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you." - William Arthur

There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. - Norman Vincent Peale
We must overcome the notion that we must be regular . . . It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre. - Uta Hagen
My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe, why it as it is and why it exists as all. - Stephen Hawking

Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. - Henry Van Dyke
You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour. - Jim Rohn
The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away. - Charles Schwab

The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation. - Mark Twain
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant. - H. L. Mencken
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. - Galileo
Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. - Og Mandino

It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to. - Walter Linn
Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. - Hubert Humphrey
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. - Henry David Thoreau

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. - Elbert Hubbard
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have. - Zig Ziglar
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. - Mary Kay Ash

If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games. - Paul "Bear" Bryant
Every man dies. Not every man lives. - Tim Robbins in The Shawshank Redemption
The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today. - Les Brown

A man dies daily, only to be reborn in the morning, bigger, better and wiser. - Emmett Fox
No one's head aches when he is comforting another - Indian Proverb
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of- Benjamin Franklin.

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else. - Yogi Berri
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. - Elbert Hubbard
Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there. - Mortimer B. Zuckerman

A certain amount of opposition is of great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with the wind. - John Neal
Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out. - Lady Blessington
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. - Henry J. Kaiser

The only way to have a friend is to be one. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately. - Benjamin Franklin
In business, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate. - Chester L. Karrass

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Alva Edison
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for. - John A. Shedd
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery



You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. - Charles Buxton
I am always willing to learn, however I do not always like to be taught. - Winston Churchill
I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have. - Harry S Truman


A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble. - Mahatma Gandhi
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. - Dolly Parton
Yesterday's the past and tomorrow's the future. Today is a gift-- which is why they call it the present. - Bill Keane

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. - Isaac Newton
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. - Winston Churchill

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. - Galileo
Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simply, really. Double your rate of failure... You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... You can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side of failure. - Thomas J. Watson
Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom. - Michel de Montaigne



You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. - James Allen
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. - William A. Ward
Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people"--that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. - Peter Drucker

Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune. - Jim Rohn
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. - James Oppenheim
How far you go in life depends on you 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

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it. - Danny Kaye
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. - Theodore Roosevelt
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. - Confucius



Destiny is not a matter of chance, but of choice. Not something to wish for, but to attain. - William Jennings Bryan
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. - Laurence Sterne
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. - Franklin D. Roosevelt


Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. - George Bernard Shaw

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come. - Victor Hugo

It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it. - W. Somerset Maugham

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. -Napoleon Hill

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward. -Jim Rohn

I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention. -Diane Sawyer

Every man dies. Not every man truly lives. -Braveheart

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. -Leo Buscaglia.

[about the past] ...the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it. -Rafikki to Simba in Disney's The Lion King

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.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. -Helen Keller

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

The man who has no imagination has no wings. - Muhammad Ali

The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. - Adam Smith

I discovered a long time ago that if I helped people get what they wanted, I would always get what I wanted and I would never have to worry. -Anthony Robbins

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

Nothing happens unless first a dream. -Carl Sandburg

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So, what the hell, leap. - Cynthia Heimel

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. - Laura Ingalls Wilder

What we see depends mainly on what we look for. - John Lubbock

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. - Dale Carnegie

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts. -Robert H. Schuller

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present. -Adlai E. Stevenson

Time is the wisest counsellor. -Pericles

"You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. There are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your own mind. -Darwin P. Kingsley

Too much of a good thing is just right - Mae West.

"Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy." Jim Rohn

To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you. -Tony Dorsett

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. -Japanese Proverb

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight-it's the size of the fight in the dog. -Dwight D. Eisenhower

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It's what sunflowers do." - Helen Keller

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. - Langston Hughes

As a man thinketh, so is he . - Proverbs 23:7

"Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach." -Tony Robbins

"Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'" - Brian Tracy

"The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands." -Robert M. Pirsig

"When you take charge of your life, there is no longer a need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life." -Geoffrey F. Abert

"It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up." -Vince Lombardi

Opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet." -Roy D. Chapin Jr.

"Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure." -Edward Eggleston

"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. -Bertie C. Forbes

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible." -Arthur C. Clarke

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal. -Earl Nightingale

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet." -Roy D. Chapin Jr.

"Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure." -Edward Eggleston

"Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before."-Herodotus

"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes." - Benjamin Disraeli

"There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learned a very, very small part of what it can do." - Isaac Bashevis Singer

"You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you."- Brian Tracy

"Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost." -Robert H. Schuller

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly. -Robert Schuller

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles. - Claude M. Bristol

The longest journey of any person is the journey inward. - Dag Hammerskjvld

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small. - Lao-Tzu

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. - Plutarch

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? -Abraham Lincoln

Men always want to be a womans first love - women like to be a mans last romance. -Oscar Wilde

It's not what happens to you; it's what you do about it that makes the difference. -W. Mitchell

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave. - Andrew Carnegie

Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind the stronger the trees. -Williard Marriott

All successful men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose. -Brian Tracy

That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet. - Emily Dickinson Submitted by Stephen Hedrick

Looking to the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots representing towns and villages on a map. Why, I ask myself, shouldn't the shining dots of the sky be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France? - Vincent Van Gogh Submitted by Stephen Hedrick

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.- John Dewey

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. -Indira Gandhi

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?" - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded and has a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know. - Thomas Wolfe

If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results. - Anthony Robbins

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances. J. Donald Walters

The path to success is to take massive, determined action. - Anthony Robbins

To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.- Tony Dorsett

At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable. --Christopher Reeve", Submitted by Mark Houck

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. --Sir Winston Churchill

If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us tostick it out. - Arthur Koestler

You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success. - Zig Ziglar

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. - James Dean

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there. - Unknown

Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen Covey

The people and circumstances around me do not MAKE me what I am, they REVEAL who I am. - Dr. Laura Schlessinger

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. - John Steinbeck

He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever. - Chinese Proverb

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. -James Oppenheim

If you can dream it, you can do it. - Walt Disney

There is only one success - to spend your life in your own way. - Christopher Morley

To Climb Steep Hills requires slow pace at first. - William Shakespeare

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know. -John Kenneth Gilbraith.

-Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. -Chinese Proverb

-If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out. - Arthur Koestler

-Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right. -Henry Ford

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals. - Jim Rohn

Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen Covey

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. - Thomas Carlyle

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. - Albert Einstein

It's kind of fun to do the impossible. - Walt Disney

It takes less time to do things right that to explain why you did it wrong. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals -. Zig Ziglar

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. - Chinese Proverb

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. -William M. Thackeray

"No one can make you feel inferior without your permission" -Eleanor Roosevelt. Submitted by Mark Houck

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. - Thomas Carlyle

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

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'. - John Greenleaf Whittier

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

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

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. - Alexander Graham Bell

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Ann Landers

It is not your aptitude, but your attitude, that determines your altitude. Zig Ziglar

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. Denis Waitley

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

Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought. Napolean Hill

Just Do It. - Nike

Adventure is not outside a man. it is within. - David Grayson

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. - Chinese proverb

Age is amatter of feeling...not of years. - George William Curtis

Hitch your wagon to a star. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A good laugh is sunshine in the house. William makepeace Thackeray

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. - Mahatma Gandhi

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope has everything. - Arabian Proverb

Light is the task where many share the toil. - Homer

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people. - Gilbert K. Chesterton

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united. - Humboldt

Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest. - Publilius Syrus

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine with only interests. - John Stuart Mill

You must look into people, as well as at them. - Lord Chesterfield

Charity sees the need, not the cause. - German Proverb

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

He's no failure. He's not dead yet. - William Lloyd George

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner. -Benjamin Franklin

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. - Christopher Morley

Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. I know better. The things I worry about don't happen.

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

Most games are lost, not won. - Casey Stengel

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. - Harry Truman, American President (b. 1884)

Many hands make the Light work. - Leroy W. Jones

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

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

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. - Aldous Huxley
The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Vision is the art of seeing the invisible. - Jonathan Swift

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? - Abraham Lincoln

He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes, but he who never asks a question remains a fool forever. - Tom Connelly

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well to think. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. - Alexander Graham Bell

It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it. - W. Somerset Maugham

My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe, why it as it is and why it exists at all. - Stephen Hawking

Failure is not the worst thing in the world, The very worst is not to try.- Anonymous

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. - Dale Carnegie

Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again. - Henry Ford

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. -Helen Keller.

Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.

Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache carries with it the seed of an equivalent or a greater benefit.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

The best way to have what you want, is to want what you have.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got.

It is not your aptitude, but your attitude, that determines your altitude.

Of all our human resources, the most precious is the desire to improve.

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dreams of yesterday are the hopes of today, and the realities of tomorrow.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, though checkered with failure, than to take rank with those poor souls, who neither enjoy much or suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.