Inspiring Thoughts

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Anger is a condition in which the tongue works faster than the mind .

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You can't change the past,
But you can ruin the present by worrying over the future.

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Love...and you shall be loved.

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God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with Him.

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All people smile in the same language.

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Everyone needs to be loved...
Especially when they do not deserve it.

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The real measure of a man's wealth is what he has invested in eternity.

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Laughter is God's sunshine.

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Everyone has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

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It's important for parents to live the same things they teach.

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Thank God for what you have,
TRUST GOD for what you need.

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If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow,
You have no today to be thankful for.

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Man looks at outward appearance, but the Lord looks within.

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The choice you make today, will usually affect tomorrow.

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Take time to laugh, for it is the music of the soul .

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Patience is the ability to idle your motor, when you feel like stripping your gears.

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Love is strengthened by working through conflicts together.

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Harsh words break no bones, but they do break hearts .

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To get out of a difficulty, one usually must go through it.

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We take for granted the things, that we should be giving thanks for.

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Love is the only thing that can be divided without being diminished.

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Happiness is enhanced by others, but does not depend upon others.

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For every minute you are angry with someone,
You lose 60 seconds of happiness that you can never get back.

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Do what you can, for who you can, with what you have, and where you are.

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Chanakya's Quotes - Worth Learning

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"A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and Honest people are screwed first."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC 75 BC)

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"Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275 BC)

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"The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your secrets with anybody. If you cannot keep secret with you , do not expect that other will keep it. ! It will destroy you."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275 BC)

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"There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no Friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275 BC)

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"Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275 BC)

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"As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275 BC)

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"Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it.
People who work sincerely are the happiest."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275BC)

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"The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275BC)

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"A man is great by deeds, not by birth."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275BC)

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"Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them.
By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275BC)

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"Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275BC)
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Leadership

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -- Harold R. McAlindon

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

"There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader." -- Alexandre Ledru-Rollin

"The history of the world is but the biography of great men." -- Thomas Carlyle

The real leader has no need to lead-he is content to point the way. -- Henry Miller

Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves. -- Lao Tzu

"He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander." -- Aristotle

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. " -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Any one can hold the helm when the sea is calm." -- Publilius Syrus

"Our policy is simple: We are not going to betray our friends, reward the enemies of freedom, or permit fear and retreat to become American policies, especially in this hemisphere. None of the wars in my lifetime came about because we were too strong."
––Ronald Reagan

"A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better." -- Jim Rohn

“You will never be a leader unless you first learn to follow and be led.” -–Tiorio

Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership.Always keep your word. -- Jim Rohn

"The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says "I"; The leader says "WE". The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, "GO"; the leader says "LET'S GO!" -- H. Gordon Selfridge

"Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal." -- Vince Lombardi

"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." -- Stephen R. Covey

"A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group." -- Russell H. Ewing

"One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency." -- Arnold Glasow

"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives." -- Theodore Roosevelt,

"A leader is best When people barely know he exists, When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, They will say: We did it ourselves." -- Lao-Tzu

"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be." -- Rosalynn Carter

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -- Muriel Strode

"The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly." -- Jim Rohn

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

"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd." James Crook Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.
Brian Tracy

"Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve." -- Toma Landry

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

"Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish." -- Sam Walton

"A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent." -- Douglas McCarther

"You manage things; you lead people." -- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper

"If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!" -- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

"I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men." -- Lao-Tzu

"It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved." -- Thomas Wolfe

"An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag." -- Viking Proverb

"It's not always easy to do the right thing. But, doing the right thing makes you strong, it builds character, it forces you to make decisions based upon your beliefs and not what other people think. In life, and in business, you have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone. But, what makes you a leader is having the courage of your convictions." -- Queen Latifah

"Entrepreneurs are the forgotten heroes of America." -- Ronald Reagan

"Eagles don't flock - you have to find them one at a time." -- H. Ross Perot

"My responsibility, our responsibility as lucky Americans, is to try to give back to this country as much as it has given us, as we continue our American journey together." -- Colin Powell

"Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow." --
Chinese Proverb

"The marksman hitteth the target partly by pulling, partly by letting go. The boatsman reached the landing partly by pulling, partly by letting go." -- Egyptian Proverb

"The man whose authority is recent is always stern." -- Aeschylus

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily;even if you had no title or position. --Brian Tracy

"The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it." -- Elaine Agather

"Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it." -- Marian Anderson

"Asked what his secret was for lasting so long and being so successful as the president of Yale University, Dr. James R. Angell explained: "Grow antennae, not horns." -- Dr. James Rowland Angell

"A most important key to successful leadership is your ability to direct and challenge the very best that is in those whom you lead." -- Anonymous

"Success for leadership is . . . knowing the great art of directing others without their noticing it." -- Anonymous

"He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander." --Aristotle

"Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before." -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"It’s great to work with somebody who wants to do things differently." -- Keith Bellow

"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality." -- Warren G. Bennis

" . . . power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership." -- 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." -- Warren G. Bennis

"The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority." -- Kenneth Blanchard

"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it." -- Andrew Carnegie

"In handling men, there are three feelings that a man must not possess — fear, dislike and contempt. If he is afraid of men he cannot handle them. Neither can he influence them in his favor if he dislikes or scorns them. He must neither cringe nor sneer. He must have both self-respect and respect for others." -- Herbert N. Casson

"There are three essentials to leadership: humility, clarity and courage." -- Chan Master Fuchan Yuan

"I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod." -- Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

"The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground." -- Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

"There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away." -- Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

"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 high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations." -- Peter F. Drucker

"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 DuPree

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

"You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that's assault, not leadership." -- General David Dwight Eisenhower

"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The common characteristics of people make a community possible, but it is their uncommon qualities that make it better." -- John H. Fischer

"Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned." -- Harold S. Green

"The human mind is as driven to understand as the body is driven to survive." -- Hugh Gilmore

"A salesman, like the storage battery in your car, is constantly discharging energy. Unless he is recharged at frequent intervals he soon runs dry. This is one of the greatest responsibilities of sales leadership." -- R. H. Grant

"What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary." -- Richard Harkness

"The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet." -- Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh

"The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist." -- Eric Hoffer

"Respect a man, he will do the more." -- James Howell

Leaders think and talk about the solutions.Followers think and talk about the problems. -- Brian Tracy

"Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together." -- Jesse Jackson

"The only real training for leadership is leadership." -- Anthony Jay

"No two men can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other." -- Dr. Samuel Johnson

"You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside." -- Charles Franklin Kettering

"Lift, Lead and Love." -- Spencer W. Kimball

" A leader is best
When people barely know he exists.
Not so good
When people obey and acclaim him.
Worse when they despise him.
But of a good leader
Who talks little
When his work is done,
His aim fulfilled, They will say "We did it ourselves." -- Lao Tse

"Rule a kingdom as though you were cooking a small fish — don't overdo it." -- Lao Tse

"There are no dumb questions—only dumb answers." -- Marshall Loeb

"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd." -- Max Lucado

"To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less." -- Andre Malraux

"Leadership is influence." -- John C. Maxwell

"Leadership is an action, not a position." -- Donald H. McGannon

"A leader is a dealer in hope." -- Napolean I

"Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence." -- Michael O'Brien

"The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run ever faster if encouraged." -- Publius Ovidius Naso Ovid

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." -- General George Smith Patton, Jr.

"One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you." -- Dennis A. Peer

"No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself." -- William Penn

Respect is the key determinant of high performance leadership.How much people respect you determines how well they perform. -- Brian Tracy

"The same ambition can destroy or save,
And makes a patriot as it makes a knave." -- Alexander Pope

"Leadership is the ability of a single individual through his or her actions to motivate others to higher levels of achievement." -- F. G. “Buck” Rodgers

"Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average. " -- Jim Rohn

"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives." -- Theodore Roosevelt

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

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

"To lead in the 21st century-to take soldiers, sailors, and airmen into battle, you will be required to have both character and competence." -- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

"He who reads is never alone." -- Helder Simone

"Learn to obey before you command." -- Solon

"I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep." -- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand--Périgord

"Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable." -- Claude I. Taylor

"Consensus is the negation of leadership." -- Margaret Thatcher

"It is much safer to obey, than to govern." -- Thomas á Kempis

"A President either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a single moment." -- Harry S. Truman

"Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better." -- Harry S. Truman

"Education is the mother of leadership." -- Wendell Lewis Wilkie

The three "C's"of leadership are Consideration,Caring,and Courtesy.Be polite to everyone. -- Brian Tracy

"Every man who takes office . . . either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing." -- Thomas Woodrow Wilson

Achievement

"The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore." –Dale Carnegie

"Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was." – Robert Louis Stevenson

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

"Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully." -- Zig Ziglar

"A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change." -- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished." -- Confucius

"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests." -- Epictetus

"We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best." -- David Bailey

"Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds." -- Orison Swett Marden

"Remember, you can earn more money, but when time is spent is gone forever." -- Zig Ziglar

"The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary." –– Thomas Edison

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

"It's your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude." -- Zig Ziglar

"Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that." -- Sir James M. Barrie

"We will either find a way, or make one." -- Hannibal

"Death comes to all. But great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold." -- George Fabricius

"If you're insincere, it's manipulative. " -- Zig Ziglar

"Mere longevity is a good things for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity." -- Gabriel Heatter

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only way around is through." -- Robert Frost

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." --
Vincent Van Gogh

"I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more." -- Jonas Salk

"You've got to be before you can do, and do before you can have." -- Zig Ziglar

"If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy." A. P. Gouthey

"My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success." -- Helen Hayes

"The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses." -- Napoleon Hill

"The best way to make your spouse and children feel secure is not with big deposits in bank account, but with little deposits of thoughtfulness and affection in the"love account."

"A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a questions he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"High achievement always takes place in a framework of high expectation." -- Jack Kinder

"Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him." -- Golo Mann

"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement." -- Foster C. Mcclellan

"I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them." -- Pablo Picasso

"The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune." -- Plutarch

"The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You're willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what's working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way." -- Anthony Robbins

"All of us perform better and more willingly when we know why we're doing what we have been told or asked to do. " -- Zig Ziglar

"Nothing is as difficulty as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerances and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-idea individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas." -- Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence." -- Eddie Robinson

"The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are." -- Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

"Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the high road to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction. " -- Brian Tracy

"Never mistake activity for achievement. " -- John Wooden

"Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it's free-but it can't go anywhere." -- Zig Ziglar

"I love America. We've got the only system that works - it keeps everyone hustling." -- J.R. Simplot

"Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done and fools what they wish to do." -- French

"The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful." -- Alfred Adler

"Encouraged people achieve the best; dominated people achieve second best; neglected people achieve the least." -- Anonymous

"God put me on Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I'm so far behind I will never die! " -- Anonymous

"If you don’t climb the mountain, you can’t view the plain." -- Anonymous

"Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk." -- Anonymous


"Money will buy you a bed, but not a good night's sleep, a house but not a home, a companion but not a friend." -- Zig Ziglar

"The harder you fall, the higher you bounce." -- Anonymous

"The man who wakes up and finds himself famous hasn't been asleep." -- Anonymous

"To go beyond is as bad as to fall short." Anonymous Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days. -- Zig Ziglar

"To reach a great height a person needs to have great depth." -- Anonymous

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

"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings." -- William Blake

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

"Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things." -- Frank Clark

"This became a credo of mine . . . attempt the impossible in order to improve your work." -- Bette Davis

"We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God. We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain mastery over yourself. . . . It is not a matter of sitting back and accepting." -- Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

"Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can." -- Henry Drummond

"Hell, there are no rules here — we're trying to accomplish something." -- Thomas Alva Edison

"We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective." -- General Dwight David Eisenhower

"What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love . . . Give it the best there is in you . . . Seize your opportunities And be a member of the team. In no country but America, I believe, is it possible to fulfill all four of these requirements." -- Benjamin F. Fairless

"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

You can finish school, and even make it easy -but you never finish your education,and it's seldom easy. -- Zig Ziglar

"If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty." -- Heber J. Grant

"Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was." -- Dag Hammarskjöld

"My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success." -- Helen Hayes

"The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses." -- Napolean Hill

Most x-rated films are advertised as "adult entertaintment,"for "mature adults," when in reality they are juvenile entertainment for immature and insecure people. -- Zig Ziglar

"We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys." -- Eric Hoffer

"Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work." -- H. L. Hunt

"Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon — deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits." -- William James

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." -- Robert Francis Kennedy

"It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever — the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it. " -- Vince Lombardi

"Many marriages would be better if the husband and wife clearly understood that they're on the same side." -- Zig Ziglar

"There's not a lot you can do about the national economy but there is a lot you can do about your personal economy."

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

"You don't drown by falling in water; you only drown if you stay there." --Zig Ziglar

"Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen before, A path to higher destinies." -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great." -- Niccoló Machiavelli

"The more you express gratitude for what you have the more you will have to express gratitude for." -- Zig Ziglar

"Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we might have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do." -- Gian-Carlo Menotti

"Someone has defined genius as intensity of purpose: the ability to do, the patience to wait. . . . Put these together and you have genius, and you have achievement." -- Leo J. Muir

"Only if you reach the boundary will the boundary recede before you. And if you don't, if you confine your efforts, the boundary will shrink to accommodate itself to your efforts. And you can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit." -- Hugh Nibley

"Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration . . and expectation." -- Jack Niklaus

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." -- General George Smith Patton, Jr.

"Five minutes, just before going to sleep, given to a bit of directed imagination regarding achievement possibilities of the morrow, will steadily and increasingly bear fruit, particularly if all ideas of difficulty, worry or fear are resolutely ruled out and replaced by those of accomplishment and smiling courage." -- Frederick Pierce

"Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others." -- Ayn Rand

"She looked at the crowd and she felt, simultaneously, astonishment that they should stare at her, when this event was so personally her own that no communication about it was possible, and a sense of fitness that they should be here, that they should want to see it, because the sight of an achievement was the greatest gift a human being could offer to others." -- Ayn Rand

"There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words . . . love and achievement. . . . In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy. . . . The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting." -- Dr. Theodor Reik

"A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forest. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high." -- William Sharp

"Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love." -- Zig Ziglar

"The things we accept as normal and enjoy today were considered impossible twenty-five years ago and beyond the power of man to achieve. The early "Buck Rogers" and "Flash Gordon" comic strips were fantastic and considered outside the realm of man's attainment. They were considered figments of man's imagination, but now many of these miraculous, imaginative things have become realities and man is pushing onward toward new and higher goals of achievement. We are now mentally prepared for every new invention and advancement in technology and the sciences , but, nevertheless, stand amazed at man's powers to create and achieve. These outstanding accomplishments, which approach the miraculous, to me are unquestioned evidence of man's divine nature. Man has sent up satellites which circle the globe. He has taken the breathtaking, miraculous ride about the earth. He expects to circle the moon and even land man on the outer planets; also he considers feasible floating platforms in outer space as intermediate stations for interplanetary travel." -- Delbert L. Stapley

"When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny." -- Zig Ziglar

"The more you express gratitude for what you have the more you will have to express gratitude for." -- Zig Ziglar



"Winner's Blueprint for Achievement BELIEVE while others are doubting.
PLAN while others are playing.
STUDY while others are sleeping.
DECIDE while others are delaying.
PREPARE while others are daydreaming.
BEGIN while others are procrastinating.
WORK while others are wishing.
SAVE while others are wasting.
LISTEN while others are talking.
SMILE while others are frowning.
Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love.

COMMEND while others are criticizing.
PERSIST while others are quitting." -- William Arthur Ward

"Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up." -- Alfred North Whitehead

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." -- John Wooden

"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand." -- Woodrow Wilson

"You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be." -- Robert Collier

"Man is not the sum of what he has but the totality of what he does not yet have, of what he might have." -- Jean-Paul Sartre

"Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." -- Conrad Hilton

"Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish." -- Brian Tracy

"The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still favorable. Favorable conditions never come." -- C.S. Lewis

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

"It's not the situation, but wheather we react (negative) or respond (positive) to the situation that's important." -- Zig Ziglar

Control

"Everybody thinks of changing humanity, but nobody thinks of changing themself." – Leo Tolstoy

"Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs." –– Andrew Carnegie

"Warriors take chances. Like everyone else, they fear failing, but they refuse to let fear control them." -- Ancient Samurai saying

"If you're always in a hurry, always trying to get ahead of the others, or someone else's performance is what motivates you, then that person is in control of you." -- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate." -- Chuang Tzu

"No One is fit to command another that cannot command themself." -- William Penn

"No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy - unless you let them." -- Napoleon Hill

"Your brain shall be your servant instead of your master, Your will rule it instead of allowing it to rule you." -- Charles E. Popplestone

"Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces." -- Og Mandino

"Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure… they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it." -- John Bentham

"Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances." -- Thomas Jefferson

"You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair." -- Chinese Proverb

"It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own." --
Samurai maxim & Chinese adage

"The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado." -- Louisa May Alcott

"The control center of your life is your attitude." -- Anonymous

"The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust." -- Josh Billings

"I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food." -- Erma Bobeck

"As long as I have you there is just one other thing I'll always need - tremendous self control." -- Ashleigh Brilliant

"Prudent, cautious self-control, is wisdom's root." -- Robert Burns

"The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts." -- Charles Robert Darwin

"Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock." -- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

"If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self." -- Napoleon Hill

"No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy — unless you let him." -- Napolean Hill

"Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward." -- Napolean Hill

"When any fit of anxiety or gloominess or perversion of the mind lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints but exert your whole care to hide it. By endeavoring to hide it, you will drive it away." -- Dr. Samuel Johnson

"When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality." -- Dr. Samuel Johnson

"Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint." -- James Russell Lowell

"He that would govern others, first should be The Master of himself." -- Philip Massinger

"It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative; indignant without being intelligent; impulsive without being insightful." -- Neal A. Maxwell

"The Savior's constant desire and effort were to implant in the mind right thoughts, pure motives, noble ideals, knowing full well that right words and actions would inevitably follow.
He taught, and modern physiology and psychology confirm, that hate and jealousy and other evil passions destroy a man's physical vigor and efficiency. What a man continually thinks about determines his actions in times of opportunity and stress. A man's reaction to his appetites and impulses when they are roused gives the measure of that man's character. In these reactions are revealed the man's power to govern or his forced servility to yield." -- David Oman McKay

"He who reigns within himself, and rules passions, desires, and fears, is more than a king." -- John Milton

"The last and favorite resort of the clergy when they are questioned too closely is: their questioners simply don't understand; they are "uninstructed and amateurish." "Unless you accept our interpretation of the texts," the layman is told, "you obviously do not understand them. And if you don't understand them, you have no right to question our interpretation of them!"
And so the layman is put in his place. The guarded degree, the closed corporation, the technical vocabulary, these are the inner redoubt, the inviolable stronghold of usurped authority. Locked safe within the massive and forbidding walls of institution and formality lies what the Egyptians called "the king's secret," the secret of controlling the past." -- Hugh Nibley

"Wherever we look in the ancient world the past has been controlled, but nowhere more rigorously than in the history of the Christian church. The methods of control, wherever we find them, fall under three general heads which might be described as (a) the invention, (b) the destruction, and (c) the alteration of documents." -- Hugh Nibley

"He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures." -- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzche

"The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you." -- Anthony (Tony) Robbins

"O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant." -- William Shakespeare

"They that have power to hurt and will do none,
That do not do the thing they most do show,
Who, moving others, are themselves as stone,
Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow;
They rightly do inherit Heaven’s graces,
And husband nature’s riches from expense;
They are the lords and owners of their faces,
Others but stewards of their excellence.
The summer’s flower is to the summer sweet,
Though to itself it only live and die;
But if that flower with base infection meet,
The basest weed outbraves his dignity:
For Sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds:
Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. " -- William Shakespeare

"When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions..." -- W. Clement Stone

"When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habits and don't know how to eliminate them effectively." -- William Clement Stone

"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still." -- Tao Te Ching

"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, - These three alone lead life to sovereign power." --Alfred Lord Tennyson

"When angry, count four; when very angry, swear." -- Mark Twain

"Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty." -- James Q. Wilson

"If you can control a man's thinking, you do not have to worry about his actions. When you determine what a man shall think you do not have to concern yourself about what he will do. If you make a man feel that he is inferior, you do not have to compel him to accept an inferior status, for he will seek it himself . If you make a man think that he is justly an outcast, you do not have to order him to the back door. He will go without being told; and if there is no back door, his very nature will demand one." -- George G. Woodson

"Control your destiny or somebody else will." -- Jack Welsh

"You must be on top of change or change will be on top of you." -- Mark Victor Hansen

Motivational

"If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes." -- St. Clement of Alexandra

"We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day." -- Thornton Wilder

"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible." -- Arthur C. Clarke

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

"Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need." -- Voltaire

"Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action." -- Benjamin Disraeli

"You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind." Author Unknown

"The best way out is always through." -- Robert Frost

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

"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome." -- Samuel Johnson

"Fortune favors the brave." -- Publius Terence

"He who hesitates is lost." -- Proverb

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall." -- Confucius

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

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

"We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls." -- Winston Churchill

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"For hope is but the dream of those that wake." -- Matthew Prior

"Constant dripping hollows out a stone." -- Lucretius

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

Hope

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
– Antoine de Saint

"Our children are our only hope for the future, but we are their only hope for their present and their future." -- Zig Ziglar

Resolve says,"I will."The man says,"I will climb this mountain.They told me it is too high, toofar,too steep,too rocky,and too difficult.But it's my mountain.I will climb it.You will soon see me waving from the top or dead on the side from trying." -- Jim Rohn

"When you put faith, hope and love together you can raise positive kids in a negative world." -- Zig Ziglar

"We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go." -- Jim Rohn

"Failure is an event, not a person.Yesterday ended last night." -- Zig Ziglar

"There are seldom.If ever, any hopeless situations, but there are many people who lose hope in the face of some situations." -- Zig Ziglar

"There is no better oppurtunity to receive more than to be thankful for what you already have. Thanksgiving opens up the windows of the oppurtunity for ideas to flow yor way." -- Jim Rohn

"YOu cannot solve a problem until you acknowledge that you have one and accept responsibility for solving it." -- Zig Ziglar

"If you are not willing to risk the unusual,you will have to settle for the ordinary." -- Jim Rohn

"Character gets you out of bed; commitment moves you to action .Faith, hope, and discipline Enable you to follow through to completion." -- Zig Ziglar

"Asking is beginig of receiving.Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon.At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you. " -- Jim Rohn

"The door to a balanced success opens widest on the hinges of hope and encouragement." -- Zig Ziglar

Victory

"Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has an idea. It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference."
–– Nolan Buhnell
BR> "The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world." Lao-Tzu

"The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give." Howard Cosell

"The will to conquer is the first condition of victory." Ferdinand Foch

"Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!" Woodrow T. Wilson

"The most dangerous moment comes with victory," Napoleon Bonaparte

"The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered." St. Augustine

"One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it." Pedro Calderon de la Barca

"Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory." General George S. Patton
"To the girls that gave me a hard time in high school. I want to say thank you. This is a victory for all the nerds out there." Amy Van Dyken

"Victory is a political fiction." Anonymous

"If you live long enough, you'll see every victory turn into a defeat." Simone de Beauvoir

"There are important cases in which the difference between half a heart and a whole heart makes just the difference between signal defeat and a splendid victory." A.H.K. Boyd

"The victory of endurance born." William Cullen Bryant

"The V sign is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories, and a portent of the fate awaiting the Nazi tyranny." Winston Churchill

"Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed." Winston Churchill

". . . You ask, What is our policy? I will say; It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory — victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival." Winston Churchill
The courses of the Victory were absorbed into the main, then her topsails went, and then her top-gallants. She was now no more than a dead fly’s wing on a sheet of spider’s web; and even this fragment diminished. Anne could hardly bear to see the end, and yet she resolved not to flinch. The admiral’s flag sank behind the watery line, and in a minute the very trunk of the last main-mast stole away. The Victory was gone. Thomas Hardy

". . . He had by now divested himself of schoolboy attitudes. He was unburdened by the desire to be a martyr or a hero. Any thoughts in that direction, Belgica effectively had quashed. Heroism in the corrupt sense of the age almost by definition, meant wanton self-sacrifice and bungling. For neither had he any taste. He wanted rational attainment; victory, but not at any price. No point upon the globe was worth the cost of a single life." Roland Huntford

"What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is the everlasting battle of the powers of light with those of darkness; with heroism reduced to its bare chance, yet ever and anon snatching victory from the jaws of death." William James

"Our cause, then, must be intrusted to, and conducted by, its own undoubted friends — those whose hands are free, whose hearts are in the work — who do care for the result. Two years ago the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us. Of strange, discordant, and even, hostile elements, we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through, under the constant hot fire of a disciplined, proud, and pampered enemy. Did we brave all then to falter now? — now when that same enemy is wavering, dissevered, and belligerent? The result is not doubtful. We shall not fail — if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise councils may accelerate or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come." Abraham Lincoln

"Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out." Edwin Markham

"It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory." General George Marshall

"It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory." Blaise Pascal

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt

Winning

“Never letting the competition define you. Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care deeply about.”
–Tom Chappel

"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them – every day begin the task anew." – Saint Francis de Sales

"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self." Aristotle

"Winning is everything, to win is all there is. Only those poor souls buried beneath the battlefield understand this." SEAL Team Saving

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

"Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is." -- Zig Ziglar

"The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them."
-- Denis Waitley


"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 man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win." -- Roger Bannister

"You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose." -- Charles Lynch

"Those that know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories." -- Polybius

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph." -- Thomas Paine

"Guts are a combination of confidence, courage, conviction, strength of character, stick-to-itiveness, pugnaciousness, backbone, and intestinal fortitude. They are mandatory for anyone who wants to get to and stay at the top." -- D.A. Benton

"Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even." -- Muhammad Ali

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

"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong." -- Abraham Lincoln

"Never let defeat have the last word." -- Tibetan Proverb

"There is no victory at bargain basement prices." -- Dwight David Eisenhower

"There are many victories worse than a defeat." -- George Eliot

"Your ability to be a winner 100 percent of the time is based upon giving up the notion that losing at anything is equivalent to being a loser." -- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing." -- Vince Lombardi

"The man who wins may have been counted out several times, but he didn't hear the referee." -- H. E. Jansen

"Nobody remembers who came in second." -- Charles Schulz

"That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning." -- Richard David Bach

"If any thing goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you." -- Paul "Bear" Bryant

"If you are going to be a successful duck hunter, you must go where the ducks are." -- Paul "Bear" Bryant

"If winning isn't important, why do we spend all that money on scoreboards?" -- Chuck Coonradt

"If winning isn't important, why keep score?" -- Star Trek: The Next Generation

"Everybody is born with an equal chance to become just as unequal as he or she possibly can." -- Anonymous

"Winners dwell on and hold the self-image of that person they would most like to become. They get a vivid, clear, emotional, sensory picture of themselves as if they had already achieved their new role in life." -- Anonymous

"Ever notice that people never say "It's only a game" when they're winning?" -- Ivern Ball



"The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can; to act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us. In the hundred-yard race the winner doesn't cross the tape line a dozen strides ahead of the field. He wins by inches. So we find it in ordinary business life. The big things that come our way are seldom the result of long thought or careful planning, but rather they are the fruit of seed planted in the daily routine of our work." -- William Feather

"There is no relief at it being over. There is the joy of winning it." -- Stefi Graf

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

"The art of winning in business is in working hard - not taking things too seriously." -- Albert Green Hubbard

"I am not one of those who think that coming in second or third is winning." -- Robert Francis Kennedy

"And the trouble with me is that my ego just can't accept a loss. I suppose that if I were more perfectly adjusted, I would toss off defeat, but my name is on this ball club. Thirty-six men publicly reflect me and reflect on me, and it's a matter of my pride." -- Vince Lombardi

"Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything." -- Vince Lombardi

"Winners are naturally bullish." -- Merrill Lynch

"If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record." -- Jan McKeithen

"Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe." -- John Milton

"When you win, nothing hurts." -- Joe Namath

"The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or to evil." -- Pythagoras

"My serve was there, everything was just clicking. Those are the days you dream about, especially in a final." -- Pete Sampras

"There are only two places in this league: first place and no place." -- Tom Seaver

"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat." -- Queen Victoria

"You carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up - and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win." -- Vince Lombardi

"You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time." -- Vince Lombardi

"If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you'll be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives." -- Vince Lombardi

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

"Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing." -- Vince Lombardi

"Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over and over again." -- Vince Lombardi

"Winning is not everything - but making an effort to win is." -- Vince Lombardi

"Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will all be judged by only one thing - the result." -- Vince Lombardi

"It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're No. 1. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner." -- Vince Lombardi

"Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, the temporary failures." -- Vince Lombardi

"Success demands singleness of purpose." -- Vince Lombardi

"If winning isn't important, why keep score?" -- Star Trek: The Next Generation

"Everybody is born with an equal chance to become just as unequal as he or she possibly can." -- Anonymous

"Winners dwell on and hold the self-image of that person they would most like to become. They get a vivid, clear, emotional, sensory picture of themselves as if they had already achieved their new role in life." -- Anonymous

"That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning." -- Richard Bach

"Ever notice that people never say "It's only a game" when they're winning?" -- Ivern Ball

"If any thing goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you." -- Paul Bryant

"If you are going to be a successful duck hunter, you must go where the ducks are." -- Paul Bryant

"The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can; to act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us. In the hundred-yard race the winner doesn't cross the tape line a dozen strides ahead of the field. He wins by inches. So we find it in ordinary business life. The big things that come our way are seldom the result of long thought or careful planning, but rather they are the fruit of seed planted in the daily routine of our work." -- William Feather

"There is no relief at it being over. There is the joy of winning it." -- Steffi Graf

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

"The art of winning in business is in working hard — not taking things too seriously." -- Elbert Hubbard

"I am not one of those who think that coming in second or third is winning." -- Robert Kennedy

"And the trouble with me is that my ego just can't accept a loss. I suppose that if I were more perfectly adjusted, I would toss off defeat, but my name is on this ball club. Thirty-six men publicly reflect me and reflect on me, and it's a matter of my pride." -- Vince Lombardi

"Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything." -- Vince Lombardi

"Winners are naturally bullish." -- Merrill Lynch

"If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record." -- Jan McKeithen

"Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe." -- John Milton

"When you win, nothing hurts." -- Joe Namath

"The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or to evil." -- Pythagoras

"My serve was there, everything was just clicking. Those are the days you dream about, especially in a final." -- Pete Sampras

"There are only two places in this league: first place and no place." -- Tom Seaver

"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat." -- Queen Victoria

"The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers." -- Brian Tracy

"There are 100 men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune." -- J. Paul Getty

"To win without risk is to triumph without glory." -- Pierre Corneille

"You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be." -- Robert Collier

"Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results." -- Brian Tracy

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

"There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it." -- Napoleon Hill

Decision

"The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a top-level job a man who was not making mistakes...otherwise he is sure to be mediocre."
- Peter Druker

"When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take – choose the bolder." – W.J. Slim

“One of our greatest gifts is out intuition. It is a sixth sense we all have –
we just need to learn to tap into and trust it.” -Donna Karan

Whatever you believe with emotions becomes your reality.You always act in a manner consistent with your intermost beliefs and convictions. - Brian Tracy

“A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further then a great idea that inspires no one.” -Mary Kay Ash

Think before you act and then act decisevely.Fortune favors the brave. - Brian Tracy

I found every single successful person I've ever spoken to had a turning point. The turning point was when they made a clear,specific unequivocal decision that they were not going to live like this anymore;they were going to achieve success.Some people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50,and most people never make it all. - Brian Tracy

Every great leap forward in your life comes after you have made a clear decision of some kind. -Brian Tracy

Resolve to pay any price or make any sacrifice to get into the top ten percent of your field. that payoff is incredible! - Brian Tracy

Management

"The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they’re expecting to do – always reach.”
-– Lee Iacocca

People are your most valuable asset.Only people can be made to appreciate in value. -- Brian Tracy

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.
-- Jim Rohn

The most powerful and predictable people-builders are praise and encouragement.
-- Brian Tracy

In leadership we teach we teach;Don't send your ducks to eagle school because it wont help.Ducks finishes eagle school,sees his first rabbit, makes him a friend.
-- Jim Rohn

The challenge of leadership is to be strong,but not rude.Be kind,but not weak. Be bold,not a bully.Be thoughtful,but not lazy. Be humble,but not timid. Be proud,but not arragant.Have humor,but without folly.
-- Jim Rohn

If you share a good idea long enough,it will eventually fall on good people.
-- Jim Rohn

Manage by objectives.Tell people exactly what you want them to doand then get out of their way.
-- Brian Tracy

Good people are found, not changed.Recently I read a headline that said, "We don't teach our people to be nice.We simply hire nice people."Wow! What a clever short cut.
-- Jim Rohn

Learn to help people with more than just their jobs;help them with their lives.
-- Jim Rohn

Manage by responsibility.It is a powerful way to grow people.
-- Brian Tracy

My mentor said,"Let's go do it"not "You go do it."How powerful when someone says,"Lets!"
-- Jim Rohn

Leaders,whether in the family,in the business,in government,or in education,must not allow themselves to mistake intentions for accomplishments.
-- Jim Rohn

Manage by exception.Only require reporting when there is a deviation from the plan.
-- Brian Tracy

Sometimes those who need it the most are inclined the least.
-- Jim Rohn

Reinforce what you want to see repeated.What gets rewarded gets done.
-- Brian Tracy

Leaders must learn to discipline their disappointments.It is not what happens to us, it is what we choose to do about what happens that makes the difference in how our lives turn out.
-- Jim Rohn

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
-- Jim Rohn

Goals

"Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor." -- Brian Tracy

"There is no achievement without goals." -- Robert J. McKaine

Goals in writting are dreams with deadlines. -- Brian Tracy

"This one step - choosing a goal and sticking to it - changes everything." -- Scott Reed

"People with goals succeed because they know where they're going." -- Earl Nightingale

I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacation with better care than they do their lives.Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change.
-- Jim Rohn

"Until input (thought) is linked to a goal (purpose) there can be no intelligent accomplishment."
-- Paul G. Thomas

"Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination."
-- Fitzhugh Dodson

"Goals.There's not telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There's no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There's no telling what will happen when you act upon them.'
-- Jim Rohn

"Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there." -- Samuel Insull

"The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break." -- Rick Hansen

We must be careful not to let our current appetites steal away any chance we might have for a future feast.
--Jim Rohn

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

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

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do." -- Epictetus

"The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end."
--Claude M. Bristol

If you go to work on your goals,your goals will go to work on you.If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you.Whatever good things we build end up building us.
--Jim Rohn

"If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else." -- Yogi Berra

"Go for the moon. If you don't get it, you'll still be heading for a star." -- Willis Reed

The establishment of a clear,central purpose or goal in life is the starting point of all success.
--Brian Tracy

"It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world."
--Og Mandino

"Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success."
-- Stephen A. Brennan

"If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I'm going to succeed."
-- Dan Dierdorf

"If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings."
-- Brian Tracy

"We aim above the mark to hit the mark." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We all need lots of powerful long range goals to help us past the short-term obstacles.
-- Jim Rohn

"It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal."
-- Helen Keller

"Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal." -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached." -- Franz Kafka

"Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work." -- H. L. Hungt

"Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets." -- Nido Qubein

We all have two choices;We can make a living or we can design a life. --Jim Rohn

"Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level neither too low nor too high." -- Greg Norman

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." -- Thomas Jefferson

"My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out."
-- Ronald Reagan

"Having an exciting destination is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point-its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms."
-- Daniel Boone

An average person with average talent,ambition and education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society,if that person has clear,focused goals.
-- Brian Tracy

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals."
-- Anonymous

"By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be."
-- Mark Victor Hansen

"Begin with the end in mind." -- Stephen Covey

"Nothing is too high for a man to reach, but he must climb with care and confidence."
-- Hans Christian Andersen

"An archer cannot hit the bullseye if he doesn’t know where the target is. -- "Anonymous

When the promise is clear,the price gets easy.
-- Jim Rohn

"Be true to your own goals." -- Anonymous

"Goal: an aim or objective, the end toward which effort is directed.
Resolution: The quality of not allowing difficulties or opposition to affect one’s purpose."
-- Anonymous

"Goal Setting:
I Set Long Term Goals
II Set Short Term Goals
III Set Objectives
IV Prioritize the Objectives
V Define and Detail
VI Do It
VII Evaluate"
-- Anonymous

"Goals that are not written down are just wishes." -- Anonymous

"Greediness often defeats its own ends, by making us scratch for every trifle when we should dig for gold alone." -- Anonymous

"Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals." -- Anonymous

"Set your goals high enough to inspire you and low enough to encourage you." -- Anonymous

"You'll never achieve your dreams if they don't become goals." -- Anonymous

"What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it." -- Alexander Graham Bell

The guy says,"When you work where I work,by the time you get home it's late.You've got to have a bite to eat,watch a little TV,relax,and get to bed. You can't sit up half the night planing, planing."And he's the same guy who's behind on his car payment.
-- Jim Rohn

"The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end."
-- Claude M. Bristol

"Every man is a diary in which he writes one story while intending to write another. His humblest moment is when he compares the two." -- Hugh B. Brown

"A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?" -- Robert Browning

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?" -- Robert Browning

"When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads." -- Edmund Burke

"Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do."
-- George F. Burns

"If you don't know where you are going, you'll probably end up somewhere else."
-- Lewis Carroll

Success equals goals;all else is commentary.
-- Brian Tracy

"Desires must be simple and definite. They defeat their own purpose should they be too many, too confusing, or beyond a man's training to accomplish." -- George S. Clason

"If you don't know where you are going, you can never get lost. -- "Herb Cohen

"When you can, always advise people to do what you see they really want to do . . . . Doing what they want to do, they may succeed; doing what they don't want to do, they won't."
-- James Gould Cozzens

"Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal."
-- E. Joseph Crossman

"Without some goal and some effort to reach it, no man can live."
-- Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

"In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way." -- Henry Havelock Ellis

There are two ways to face the future.One way is with apprehension; the otheris with anticipation. -- Jim Rohn

"Hitch your wagon to a star." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We aim above the mark to hit the mark." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A distracted existence leads us to no goal." -- John Wolfgang von Goethe

"I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut." -- John Wolfgang von Goethe

"Keep your eye on eternal goals." -- John H. Groberg

"Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road." -- Dag Hammarskjöld

"There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it." -- Napoleon Hill

"Please don’t nag yourself with thoughts of failure. Do not set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. Simply do what you can do, in the best way you know, and the Lord will accept of your effort." -- Gordon B. Hinckley

"Success is not measured in achievement of goals, but in the stress and strain of meeting those goals." -- Spencer W. Kimball

"We do believe in setting goals. We live by goals. In athletics we always have a goal. When we go to school, we have the goal of graduation and degrees. Our total existence is goal-oriented.
We must have goals to make progress, encouraged by keeping records . . . as the swimmer or the jumper or the runner does . . .
Progress is easier when it is timed, checked, and measured. . . .
Goals are good. Laboring with a distant aim sets the mind in a higher key and puts us at our best. Goals should always be made to a point that will make us reach and strain."
-- Spencer W. Kimball

"Organize one's values in the order of their worth." -- François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"Go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will see farther."
-- Orison Swett Marden

"Do not let the future be held hostage by the past." -- Neal A. Maxwell

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal."
-- Hannah More

Reasons come first.Answers come second. -- Jim Rohn

"Aim for the stars and maybe you'll reach the sky." -- Reinhold Niebuhr

"The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get." -- Jim Rohn

"We all need lots of powerful long-range goals to help us past the short-term obstacles.
-- Jim Rohn

"You can't hit a home run unless you step up to the plate. You can't catch fish unless you put your line in the water. You can't reach your goals if you don't try." -- Kathy Seligman

Rewrite your major goals every day,in the present tense, exactly as if they already existed.
-- Brian Tracy

"When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind."
-- Lucius Annæus Seneca

"A goal is a planned event." -- Hayrum W. Smith

"A goal is a dream with a deadline." -- Steve Smith

"Our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal to all men who are struggling to breathe free."
-- Adlai Ewing Stevenson

"To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you...don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach."
-- W. Clement Stone

Goals.There's no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them.There's no telling what you can do when you believe in them.There's no telling what will happen when you act upon them.
-- Jim Rohn

"You, too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims and destination." -- W. Clement Stone

"No one knows what he can do until he tries." -- Publilius Syrus

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his own dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." -- Henry David Thoreau

"In the long run men hit only what they aim at." -- Henry David Thoreau

"One ship drives east, and another west With the self-same winds that blow: ‘Tis the set of the sails And not the gales, Which decides the way we go.
Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate,
As they voyage along through life;
‘Tis the will of the soul
That decides its goal,
And not the calm or the strife." -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"There is no chance, no destiny, no fate,
That can circumvent or hinder or control
The firm resolve of a determined soul."
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"Men do not succeed in business or in life, no matter how intelligent they may be, no matter how sharply their aptitudes are defined, no matter how brilliantly they may be educated unless they are oriented toward the proper goals and have the drive or motivating force to succeed. One has to want something mighty hard and keep on wanting things all his life. . . ."
-- Wallace H. Wulfeck

"Too low they build who build beneath the stars." -- Edward Young

"You can't hit a target you cannot see, and you cannot see a target you do not have."
-- Zig Ziglar

|Commiting your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent!
Brian Tracy
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"People with goals succeed because they know where they are going... It's as simple as that." Earl Nightingale
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"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success." Henry David Thoreau

"Reduce your plan to writing... The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire." Napoleon Hill
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