Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.-Babe Ruth
“Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.”– David Rockefeller
“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
“I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.” – Stephen Covey
“In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.” — Robert Heinlein
Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans. Aim high in hope and work. Remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die. ~ Daniel H. Burnham
“Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life. Certainly it is worth the risk.” – Leo Buscaglia
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.” — Henry David Thoreau
“Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.” — Vincent Van Gogh
“There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.” — Federico Fellini
“Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe.” — Winston Churchill
“Without a compelling cause, our employees are just putting in time. Their minds might be engaged, but their hearts are not. Meaning precedes motivation.”– Lee J. Colan
“The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.” — Theodore Roosevelt
“We are continually faced with great opportunities which are brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.” – Margaret Mead
“A good plan is like a road map: It shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.” — H. Stanley Judd
“Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.” — Arnold Bennett
“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.” – Walter Elliott
“Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.” — Napolean Hill
“Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.” – Hyman Rickover
“I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who sought and found out how to serve.” — Albert Schweitzer
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people; to earn the appreciation of honest critics; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. -Maslow
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.” — Henry David Thoreau
“I have failed over and over again in my life. And that’s precisely why I succeed.”– Michael Jordan
“It’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal that will enable you to attain the success you seek.”– Mario Andretti
To use power wisely is the final test of leadership. Thus, the first rule in the game of power (or life) and, in fact, the only hard and fast rule in the entire game is: POWER MUST BE THE SERVANT; IT MUST NOT BE THE MASTER! ~Thomas D. Willhite~
“When you make a mistake, don’t look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.” – Hugh White
“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
“Not being in tune with your customers is like living in an alternate reality; the way you think your customers feel about your product is not always the same as what your customers really think about your product.”– Bo Bennett
“The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field – and keep on doing it.” – Wilfred A. Peterson
“The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.”– Bo Bennett
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions. –Mark Twain
“Adulthood is defined by the willingness to accept full responsibility for where you are at in life; no longer blaming others or circumstances.” — Joe Westbrook
“If you’re proactive, you don’t have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.” — Stephen R. Covey
“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first.” — Mark Twain
“99% of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.” — George Washington Carver
“The one word that makes a good manager – decisiveness.”– Lee Iacocca
“Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.”– Henry Kissinger
“When plans are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances fit in with them.” — Sir William Osler
“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they may have planned for you? Not much.” — Jim Rohn
“Don’t just do something, sit there! Sit there long enough each morning to decide what is really important during the day ahead.” — Richard Eyre
“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” — William Wadsworth
“If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.”– Marcus Tullius Cicero
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” – Colin Powell
“Learning is not compulsory, but neither is survival.” — W. Edwards Deming
We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind with a tender heart. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Do or do not. There is no try.-Yoda
“Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.” — Alexander Graham Bell
“The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want the most for what you want now.” – Zig Ziglar
It takes courage to grow up and be who you really are. –E.E. Cummings
Live life fully while you’re here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! Your going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don’t try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human. ~Anthony Robbins~
“The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.” — Charles du Bois
“The only limitation in your life is the limitation of your own thinking.” — James A. Ray
“Aim not for what you are, but for what you could be.” — Lucas Hellmer
“Dwell in possibility.” — Emily Dickinson
“I learned that we can do anything, but we can’t do everything.. at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.” – Dan Millman
The best way to predict your future is to create it.-Unknown
“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.”– Dwight Eisenhower
“The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.” — Mortimer Adler
“One of life’s most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn’t do our homework, that we are not prepared.” — Merlin Olsen
“What distinguishes winners is the will to prepare to win.” — Tony Jeary
“It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.” — Whitney Young, JR.
“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” — Benjamin Disraeli
“Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will and be judged by only one thing: the result.”– Vince Lombardi
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