“Unless you try do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."
Ronald E. Osborn
“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Without a struggle, there can be no progress.”
Frederick Douglass
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, writer, scientist & printer.
“You miss a 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.”
Wayne Gretzky
“Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.” -
Arthur F. Lenehan, leadership expert
“Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.”
Alexander Hamilton
“Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it…”
Mary Pickford (1893-1979)
The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
Anonymous
The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Allan K. Chalmers
“When you're a professional, you come back no matter what happened the day before.”
Billy Martin
“We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.”
Maria Mitchell
“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
Henri Bergson
“There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.”
Michel de Montaigne
“There are powers inside of you, which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.”
Orison Swett Marden
“The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.”
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.” Albert Einstein
“The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.”
Ben Stein
“The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.”
Mark Twain
“The expert at anything was once a beginner.” Hayes
“Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.”
Bud Fox stockbroker from the movie Wall Street (1987)
“Laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.”
Thomas Hobbes
“It’s always fun to do the impossible.”
Walt Disney
“If the things you wanted to happen did not happen, think instead of the things you did not want to happen that did not happen.”
Confucius
“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) third president of the U.S., principal author of the Declaration of Independence.
“Great minds think alike.”
Anon
“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.” Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creative.”
Charles Mingus
“Nurture your mind with great thoughts.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.”
Arnold Glasgow
“Our aspirations are our possibilities.”
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English critic & poet.
“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.”
General George Patton
“The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.”
Linus Pauling
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, writer, scientist & printer.
“The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.”
Max De Pree, “Leadership Is an Art.”
“The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.”
Napoleon Hill
“Winners never quit and quitters never win.”
Anon
“You see things as they are and ask, ‘Why?’ I dream things as they never were and ask, ‘Why not?’”
George Bernard Shaw
“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.” Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory. Miguel Cervantes
Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
Confucius
If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
Thomas Edison
"Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives."
Willa A. Foster
Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.
Euripides
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
Leonardo da Vinci
"Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win." Jonathan Kozol
We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather
than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.
Stephen Covey
"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt." William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English playwright & poet
Memory ... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Oscar Wilde
This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a
means of communication. The device is inherently of no value too us.
Western Union Internal Memo 1876
Original love never appears in pure form, but in manifold veils and shapes,
such as confidence, humility, reverence, serenity, as faithfulness and modesty, as gratefulness; but primarily as longing and wistful melancholy.
Friedrich Von Schlegel
"Often the test of courage is not to die but to live." - Vittorio Alfieri
You really have Social Disease when you make all your play work. The only reason to play hard is to work hard, not the other way around like most people think.
Andy Warhol
You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.
Brian Tracy
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature ... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these things about a person, you can touch him at the core of his being.
William Bernbach
"Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate
intention into reality and sustain it." Warren Bennis
"Learn wisdom from the ways of a seedling. A seedling which is never hardened off through stressful situations will never become a strong productive plant." - Stephen Sigmund
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your
own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
Rollo May
"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people." Victor Borge
Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all
external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly
uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.
Arthur Schopenhauer
"Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them."
Bud Fox stockbroker from the movie Wall Street (1987)
"Laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising from some sudden
conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity
of others, or with our own formerly."
Thomas Hobbes
"It's always fun to do the impossible."
Walt Disney
"If the things you wanted to happen did not happen, think instead of the
things you did not want to happen that did not happen."
Confucius
"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have
of it."
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) third president of the U.S., principal author
of the Declaration of Independence.
"Great minds think alike."
Anon
"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated
simple, awesomely simple, that's creative."
Charles Mingus
"No leader can be too far ahead of their followers."
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
"Nurture your mind with great thoughts."
Benjamin Disraeli
"One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before
it becomes an emergency."
Arnold Glasgow
"Our aspirations are our possibilities."
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English critic & poet.
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."
Confucius
"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."
General George Patton
"The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas."
Linus Pauling
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, writer, scientist &
printer.
"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to
say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant."
Max De Pree, "Leadership Is an Art.
"The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place
of those which fail."
Napoleon Hill
"You really can change the world if you care enough."
Marian Wright Edelman
"Winners never quit and quitters never win." Anon
"You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never
were and ask, 'Why not?'"
George Bernard Shaw
"We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not
liberate, it oppresses."
C.G. Jung, Psychological Reflections
"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them." Kahlil
Gibran, Sand and Foam
"The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to
grow sharper."
Eden Phillpotts
"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them
feel."
Carl W. Buechne
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard
work, and learning from failure."
Colin Powell
"Confidence is contagious."
Vince Lombardi (1913-1970) Hall of Fame football coach
"Eighty percent of success is showing up."
Woody Allen
"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in
life."
Muhammad Ali (1942-) American boxer
"I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart." Vincent van
Gogh (1853-1890) Dutch painter
"Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground."
Theodore Roosevelt
"Necessity is the mother of taking chances."
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American Writer
"Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for
it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new
insights begin."
Hermann Hesse
"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." Les
Brown
"Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage."
Charles Luckman
"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is
this: decide what you want."
Ben Stein
"Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage."
Charles Luckman
"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is
this: decide what you want."
Ben Stein
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious." Albert
Einstein
"The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a
rightly timed pause."
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who
keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind
young." Henry Ford
"Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live." Margaret Fuller
Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything
else, through hard work. Vince Lombardi
"Live out of your imagination, not your history." Stephen Covey
Lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know.
Knowing is not enough! You must take action. Anthony Robbins
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes can be truly
endless." Mother Teresa
Interpretation is the evidence of growth and knowledge, the latter through
sorrow- that great teacher.
Eleonora Duse
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your
mind
Earl Nightingale
Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are
invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give
them. You will receive abundance for your giving.
W.Clement Stone
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. the hand is
the cutting edge of the mind.
Jacob Brownowski
In dreams begins responsibility. William Butler Yeats
You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your
aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness.
Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it. That's the
only way to get to the top. Emil Zatopek
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own
expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Denis Waitley
Treat everyone you meet as though they are the most important person you'll
meet that day. Roger Dawson
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is
this: decide what you want.
Ben Stein
What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to
make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort. Orison
Swett Marden
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the
attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way
your mind looks at what happens. Kahlil Gibran
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean,
relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the
man of practical wisdom would determine it. Aristotle
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to
your adventure. Joseph Campbell
To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and
day, to make you somebody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any
human being can fight; and never stop fighting. e.e. Cummings.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort
and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr.
When you're through changing, you're through. Bruce Barton
True balance requires assigning realistic performance expectations to each
of our roles. True balance requires us to acknowledge that our performance
in some areas is more important than in others. True balance demands that we
determine what accomplishments give us honest satisfaction as well as what
failures cause us intolerable grief. Melinda M. Marshall
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve. Napoleon
Hill
Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our
expectations. Federico Fellini
You've got to develop mental strength. And you develop mental strength with
the will. The will is the mental faculty that gives you the ability to hold
one idea under the screen of your mind to the exclusion of all outside
distractions. Bob Proctor
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals."Jim Rohn
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of
success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel
rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments."
Gustave Flaubert
The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the
idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its
fulfillment. Earl Nightingale
Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a
certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so
obvious that the problem no longer exists. Edward de Bono
Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75. Benjamin Franklin
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason
for existing. Albert Einstein
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every
time we fall. Nelson Mandela
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
Abraham Maslow
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By
recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of
becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -
your own. Mark Victor Hansen
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking
what one has to do.
- Anonymous
The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love,
and something to hope for.
- Allan K. Chalmers
"When you're a professional, you come back no matter what happened the day
before."
Billy Martin
"We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and
the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are
capable of seeing."
Maria Mitchell
"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on
creating oneself endlessly."
Henri Bergson
"There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees."
Michel de Montaigne
"There are powers inside of you, which, if you could discover and use, would
make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become."
Orison Swett Marden
"The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a
rightly timed pause."
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious." Albert
Einstein
"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is
this: decide what you want."
Ben Stein
"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter."
Mark Twain
"The expert at anything was once a beginner." Hayes
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause
and reflect." Mark Twain
"You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself." Harry
Firestone
"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." Franklin D.
Roosevelt