“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him”
– David Brinkley
“Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure”
- George Edward Woodberry
“Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts”
- Arnold Bennett
“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude”
- Maya Angelou
"All men of action are dreamers”
- James Huneker
“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are”
- John Wooden.
“You grow up the day you have your first real laugh–at yourself ”
- Ethel Barrymore
“There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness”
- Han Suyin
“Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy”
- George Orwell
“Don’t wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.”
- Mary Manin Morrissey
“Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.”
- George W. Carver
“When the world says, ‘Give up’, Hope whispers, ‘Try it one more time.’”
- Unknown
“I am grateful for all of my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties.”
- James Cash Penney
“Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.”
- Richard L. Evans
“If you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.”
- Bruce Lee (The Art of Expressing the Human Body)
“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”
- Dale Carnegie
“Nothing great has ever been achieved except by those who dared to believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances.”
- Bruce Barton
“Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.”
- Robert Anthony
“I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate”
- George Burns
“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 Bushnell
“The purpose of life is a life of purpose”
- Robert Byrne
“Unbeing dead isn’t being alive”
- E. E. Cummings
“Our entire life – consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are”
- Jean Anouilh
“No man is a failure who is enjoying life”
- William Feather
“A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts”
- Harold MacMillan
“I always trust my gut reaction; it’s always right”
- Kiana Tom
“I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business”
- Harvey S. Firestone
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.”
- Steve Jobs
“Do just once what others say you can’t do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.”
- James R. Cook
“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.”
- Dale Carnegie
“You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.”
- Jim Rohn
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
- Steve Jobs
“We have no choice of what color we’re born or who our parents are or whether we’re rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we’re here.”
- Mildred Taylor
“Make sure that your actions and behaviors live up to and reflect the words and ideas, promises and commitments that come out of your mouth.”
- Steve Farber
“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 Charles Forbes
“Don’t be so quick to claim your limitations when you’ve never truly tested them.”
- Kevin Ngo
“I have to trust what I do and then do it”
- Ednita Nazario
“Don’t look any further than your own reflection for a hero”
- Allyson Partridge
My strength did not come from lifting weights. My strength came from lifting myself up when I was knocked down”
- Bob Moore (Weightlifting Champion)
” The ‘good life’ begins when you stop wanting a better one”
- Nkosiphambili E. Molapis
“I am not in this world to live up to other people’s expectations, nor do l feel that the world must live up to mine”
- Fritz Perl
I will come again & conquer you because as a mountain you can’t grow, but as a human, I can”
- Sir Edmund Hillary
“I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn’t give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.”
- Harrison Ford
“We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.”
- Jesse Owens
“Show me a person who doesn’t make mistakes and I’ll show you a person who doesn’t do anything.”
- Leonard Rubino
“Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t."
- Jerry Rice
“Too many people are thinking the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, when they ought to just water the grass they are standing on.”
- Amar Dave
“The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.”
- Heraclitus
“Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.”
- Denis Waitley
“Learn to appreciate what you have, before time makes you appreciate what you had.”
- Unknown
“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”
- Bruce Lee
“Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one’s ideas, to take a calculated risk – and to act.”
- Maxwell Maltz
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
- George Bernard Shaw
“The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.”
- Napoleon Hill (Think and Grow Rich)
“The real person you are is revealed in the moments when you’re certain no other person is watching. When no one is watching, you are driven by what you expect of yourself.”
- Ralph S. Marston, Jr.
“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.”
- Henry Ward Beecher
“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.”
- Les Brown (Live Your Dreams)
“When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up.”
- Les Brown
“You can’t just sit and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.”
- Diana Ross
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
- Mark Twain
“The attitude you have as a parent is what your kids will learn from more than what you tell them. They don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”
- Jim Henson
“It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.”
- Dale Carnegie
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
- Harriet Tubman
“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
“Each day is a new life. Seize it. Live it.”
- David Guy Powers
“To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.”
- Anatole France
“If you’re born poor, it’s not your mistake. But if you die poor, it’s your mistake.”
- Bill Gates
“Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.”
- Grandma Moses
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
- Abraham Lincoln
“Few people take objectives really seriously. They put average effort into too many things, rather than superior thought and effort into a few important things. People who achieve the most are selective as well as determined.”
- Richard Koch
“You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself.”
- Jim Rohn
“You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.”
- Unknown
“Either take the chance and make achieving your dreams a possibility or don’t, and make living with regret a certainty.”
- Kevin Ngo
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
- Marcus Aurelius
“Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.”
- Bernice Johnson Reagon
“If you can’t excel with talent, triumph with effort.”
- Dave Weinbaum
“Do more than belong: Participate. Do more than care: Help. Do more than believe: Practice. Do more than be fair: Be Kind. Do more than forgive: Forget. Do more than dream: Work.”
- William Arthur Ward
“How does one become a butterfly? You must want to fly so much that you’re willing to give up being a caterpillar.”
- Trina Paulus
“Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.”
- Charles F. Kettering
“Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.”
- Unknown
“Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.”
- Unknown
“Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.”
- Winston Churchill
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”
- Lao Tzu
“Tough times never last, but tough people do.”
- Dr. Robert Schuller
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow.”
- Helen Keller
“Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.”
- Christopher Reeve
“Every moment is a fresh beginning.”
- T.S. Eliot
“Don’t count the days, make the days count.”
- Muhammad Ali
“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.”
- Jimmy Johnson
“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
- Will Rogers
“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”
- Babe Ruth
“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.”
- George Addair
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
- Frederick Douglass
“What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.”
- Tim Ferriss
“Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.”
- Albert Einstein
“The harder I work, the luckier I get.”
- Gary Player
“Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.”
- Victor Kiam
“Obsessed is just a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated.”
- Russell Warren
“Someday is not a day of the week.”
- Denise Brennan-Nelson
“If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.”
- Ben Hogan
“I will go anywhere as long as it is forward.”
- David Livingston
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
- Wayne Gretzky
“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.”
- Vince Lombardi
Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being.
- Kevin Kruse
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
- Napoleon Hill
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
- Albert Einstein
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. - Robert Frost
I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.
- Florence Nightingale
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
- Wayne Gretzky
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
- Michael Jordan
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.
- Amelia Earhart
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
- Babe Ruth
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
- W. Clement Stone
We must balance conspicuous consumption with conscious capitalism.
- Kevin Kruse
Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
We become what we think about.
- Earl Nightingale
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.
- Mark Twain
Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.
- Charles Swindoll
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
- Steve Jobs
If you can dream it, you can achieve it.
- Zig Ziglar
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