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"The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimist lends encouragement."
- William Arthur Ward

"You become what you think about."
- Earl Nightingale (more)

"People with goals succeed because they know where they are going... It's as simple as that."
- Earl Nightingale (more)

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

"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want."
- Ben Stein

"Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working 24 hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force."
- Tom Blandi

"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success."
- Henry David Thoreau

"The most important thing about goals is having one."
- Geoffry F. Abert

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

"The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them." - Denis Waitley (more)

"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"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 (more)

"Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin." - Robert Collier

"Concentrate: put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket." - Andrew Carnegie

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish." - John Quincy Adams

"The first step to becoming is to will it." - Mother Teresa

"I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature." - John D. Rockefeller

"The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible." - Richard M. DeVos

"What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims." - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

"All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible." - Orison Swett Marden

"Aim for success not perfection... Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person." - Dr. David Burns

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

"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh--at yourself." - Ethel Barrymore

"The first thing I remember liking that liked me back was food." - Rhoda Morgenstern

"The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again." - Erma Bombeck

"Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and spend it rather than invest it." - Jim Rohn (more)

"Perseverance is more prevailing than violence and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little." - Plutarch

"Forewarned, forearmed, is to be prepared is half the victory." - Miguel de Cervantes

"The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin." - Confucius

"Only in growth, reform and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in making new landscapes but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust

"A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve." - John Maxwell

"Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it." - Rabindranath Tagore

"In the power to change yourself is the power to change the world around you." - Anwar Sadat

"Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing." - Abraham Lincoln

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts....take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature." - Marcus Aurelius

"He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great street-sweeper who did his job well'." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down." - Mary Pickford

"Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience." - Harold Ruopp

"Success is never final and failure never fatal. It is courage that counts." - George F. Tilton

"There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience had brought it home." - John Stuart Mill

"Fight one more round. When your arms are so tired that you can hardly lift your hands to come on guard, fight one more round. When your nose is bleeding and your eyes are black and you are so tired that you wish your opponent would crack you one on the jaw and put you to sleep, fight one more round – remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped." - James Corbett

"A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must...be undaunted when the going gets tough." - Ronald Reagan

"Big goals get big results. No goals get no results or somebody else's results.." - Mark Victor Hansen (more)

"Do a little more each day than you think you can." - Lowell Thomas

"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory." - Mohandas Gandhi

"I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work." - Harry S. Truman

"When you believe you can-you can!" - Maxwell Maltz (more)

"Once you have a clear picture of your priorities- that is values, goals, and high leverage activities- organize around them." - Stephen Covey (more)

"When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed,' you find that it simply means to follow through." - F. W. Nichol

"I am an irresistible magnet, with the power to attract unto myself everything that I divinely desire, according to the thoughts, feelings and mental pictures I constantly entertain and radiate. I am the center of my universe! I have the power to create whatever I wish. I attract whatever I radiate. I attract whatever I mentally choose and accept. I begin choosing and mentally accepting the highest and best in life. I now choose and accept health, success and happiness. I now choose lavish abundance for myself and for all mankind. This is a rich, friendly universe and I dare to accept its riches, its hospitality, and to enjoy them now!" - Catherine Ponde

"Our very business in life is not to get ahead of others... but to get ahead of ourselves." - Thomas L. Monson

"Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before." - Jacob A. Riis

"If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us ... we would all be millionaires." - Abigail Van Buren

"The obstacles that others put in our path can be pushed aside in any number of ways. The obstacles that you put in your own way can be removed only by the same hands." - Sophia Bedford-Pierce

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles... but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly." - Buddha

"Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can." - The Dalai Lama

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship." - Louisa May Alcott

"Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results." - Denis Waitley (more)

"The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him... and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too." - Samuel Butler

"If you decide to go for it, do it with spirit: Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal." - Charles Buxton

"Our greatest glory consists not in never falling... but in rising every time we fall." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Movement without direction will create a hole in the ground." - Sophia Bedford-Pierce

"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are." - Madeline L'Engle

"One's ships come in over a calm sea." - Florence Scovill Shinn

"Everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emotional, and a spiritual. Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time, but unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person." - Rumer Godden

"We've collected the most common service complaints.... and every one of them is rooted in a lack of respect for the customer." - Leonard Berry

"Go for the moon. If you don't get it, you'll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of the creative effort." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it." - Mae West

"When employees come to you with suggestions or ideas about how they might approach something differently, do you move immediately to no? Do you kill an idea before it is even off the tongue? (Tell the truth.) We hear that employees feel put down and turned down far more than their managers are aware. And that makes leaving easier. Instead try listening to the entire idea, try playing with it as a "what if." Ask for more information. Sleep on it, mull it over. Think, "Isn't that interesting" before you think, "It will never work." - Beverly Kay and Sharon Jordan-Evans

"The mere word kindness is grateful to our ears; so much good is implied in it, so much lightening of loads, so much brightening of dark lives. It is compounded of so many warm, noble things: once it is a manifestation of pity, once of sympathy, once of love, once of justice -- it can flow from so many springs in our soul." - Ruhiyyah Rabbani

"Business is a great teacher: It makes you take risks, go for your dreams, face fears, handle your emotions, deal with difficult people, and learn balance. You don't have to do any weird workshops or sign up for any therapy sessions. Go into business and you'll be enrolled in the greatest seminar of all time. And it happens every day, every where, to every one. You can't avoid it." - Joe Vitale

"The best things in life have little to do with money or success. They are based on heart, compassion, and allowing others to express their passions." - Declan Dunn

"Learn to pause.... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you." - Doug King

"Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution." - Raymond E. Feist

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." - Bill Cosby

"The future is not in the hands of fate, but in ours." - Jules Jusseran

"There are only two lasting bequests we can give our children... one is roots, the other wings." - Stephen Covey (more)

"The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck." - Anthony Robbins (more)

"The problem with most failing businesses is not that their owners don’t know enough about finance, marketing, management, and operations -- they don’t, but those things are easy enough to learn -- but that they spend their time and energy defending what they think they know. My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren’t so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more." - Michael Gerber

"For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour." - Mary Kay Ash

"When nobody around you measures up, it's time to check your yardstick." - Bill Lemly

"It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed." - Harvey S. Firestone

"The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek." - Robert Louis Stevenson

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"Let go of the past and go for the future. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined." - Henry David Thoreau

"Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!" - Andrew Carnegie

"All through nature, you will find the same law. First the need, then the means." - Robert Collier

"You don't need an explanation for everything. Recognize that there are such things as miracles, events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily." - Harry Browne

"Success...My nomination for the single most important ingredient is energy well directed." - Louis Lundborg

"In the end, we do battle only with ourselves. Once we understand this and focus our energy on what we can do to control our lives... we begin to gain important insights into how life works." - J. Stanley Judd

"I found that I could find the energy... that I could find the determination to keep on going. I learned that your mind can amaze your body, if you just keep telling yourself, I can do it...I can do it...I can do it!" - Jon Erickson

"Do your work with your whole heart and you will succeed-there's so little competition." - Elbert Hubbard

"When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve." - Napoleon Hill (more)

"Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow." - Norman Vincent Peale

"No matter what we want of life we have to give up something in order to get it." - Raymond Holliwell

"You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing." - Andrew Jackson

"Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything." - Harry Browne

"Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect." - Chief Seattle

"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us 'the universe.' Our tasks must be to widen our circle of compassion. To embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." - Albert Einstein

"You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you." - John Wooden

"Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today." - Benjamin Franklin

"When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first." - Josiah Quincy

"The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose." - E.M. Gray

"Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground." - Theodore Roosevelt

"Climb high; climb far. Your goal is the sky; your aim is the star." - Inscription at Williams College

"Set the course of your lives by the three stars- sincerity, courage, unselfishness. From these flow a host of other virtues... He who follows them and does not seek success, will attain the highest type of success. that which lies in the esteem of those among whom he dwells." - Dr. Monroe E. Deutsch

"It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle." - Richard M. DeVos

"My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces." - Wilma Rudolph, Winner of 3 Gold Medals in running events 1960 Summer Olympics

"Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities." - Ralph Waldo Trine

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

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

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed people can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead

"THE PROBLEMS OF THIS WORLD cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were." - John F. Kennedy

"There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces... (such as tornados, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain.) What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control." - Leo Buscaglia

"Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either." - Golda Meir

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Do what you fear most and you control fear." - Tom Hopkins

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face... The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it... You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt

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

"One cannot get through life without pain... What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us." - Bernie Siegel

"You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again." - Henry Ford

"No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched." - George Jean Nathan

"Anyone can become angry--that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way-- that is not easy." - Aristotle

"I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world." - Mahandas Gandhi

"We are told never to cross a bridge till we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have "crossed bridges" in their imagination far ahead of the crowd." - Speakers Library

"The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go." - John Morgan and Ewing Webb

"'We sure shook that bridge,' the mouse said to the elephant after they had crossed the bridge." - Anonymous

"When evil men plot, good men must plan." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity." - John F. Kennedy

"It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." - Robert F. Kennedy

"Each player must accept the cards that life deals him or her. But once in hand one must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game." - Voltaire

"He is free who knows how to keep in his own hand the power to decide." - Salvador De Madariaga

"Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well." - Kenneth Hildebrand

"We have petitioned and our petitions have been disregarded, we have entreated and our entreaties have been scorned. We beg no more, we petition no longer, we now defy." - William Jennings Bryan

"What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims." - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

"Aim for success not perfection. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person." - Dr. David Burns

"High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation." - Jack and Garry Kinder (more)

"Thus to be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great." - G. W. F. Hegel

"A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements." - Orison Swett Marden

"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down." - Mary Pickford

"Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage that counts." - George F. Tiltonood

"Once you have a clear picture of your priorities- that is values, goals, and high leverage activities- organize around them." - Stephen Covey (more)

"When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word "succeed," you find that it simply means to follow through." - F. W. Nichol

"Nothing happens unless first a dream." - Carl Sandburg

"What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve." - Napoleon Hill (more)

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein

"It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else." - Erma Bombeck

"Every really new idea looks crazy at first." - Abraham H. Maslow

"A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing." - Charles M. Schwab

"I dream my painting and then paint my dream." - Vincent Van Gogh

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

"It’s always fun to do the impossible." - Walt Disney

"Let us become the change we seek in this world." - Mohandas Gandhi

"All glory comes from daring to begin." - William Shakespeare

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." - Chinese Proverb

"The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen." - Lee Iacocca (more)

"You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." - Jack London

"If you don’t set goals for yourself, you are doomed to work to achieve the goals of someone else." - Brian Tracy (more)

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

"You miss a 100 percent of the shots you don’t take." - Wayne Gretzky

"The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done." - Arnold Palmer

"Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." - William Faulkner

"I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have." - Abraham Lincoln

"In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"Plan for the future, because that is where you are going to spend the rest of your life." - Mark Twain

"Great minds have purposes, others have wishes."
- Washington Irving