Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade. – Rudyard Kipling

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. – Aristotle

Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined. – Unknown

The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. – Robert G. Ingersoll

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. – Aristotle

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. – Edmund Burke

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. – Malcolm Forbes

Positive self-esteem is the quality of simply saying thank you and accepting any value that is attributed to you by others. – Denis Waitley

The core of your personality is your self-esteem, ‘How much you like yourself?’ The more you like and respect yourself, the better you do at everything you attempt. – Brian Tracy

No one can make you feel inferior without your permission. – Eleanor Roosevelt

We are made to persist. That’s how we find out who we are. – Tobias Wolff

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser. – Lou Holtz

Many a man never fails because he never tries. – Norman Macewan

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

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way. – Abraham Lincoln

Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined. – Unknown

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so. – Charles de Gaulle

We should learn, by reflection on the misfortunes of others, that there is nothing singular in those which befall ourselves. – Thomas Fitzosborne

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it’s because you’ve started to think of failure. – Tommy Lasorda

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure. – S. I. Hayakawa

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? – Marcus Annaeus Seneca

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. – William James

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. – Confucius

We focus on the negatives, losing ourselves in the ‘problem.’ We point to our unhappy circumstances to rationalize our negative feelings. This is the easy way out. It takes, after all, very little effort to feel victimized. – Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

A man may fall many times but he won’t be a failure until he says someone pushed him. – Elmer G. Letterman

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. – Steven Biko

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it’s the best possible substitute for it. – James Garfield

You will never win if you never begin. – Robert H. Schuller

One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. – Sigmund Freud

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities – Aldous Huxley

If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do. – Lucille Ball

To be conscience that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. – Benjamin Disraeli

Life is the coexistence of all opposite values. Joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, up and down, hot and cold, here and there, light and darkness, birth and death. All experience is by contrast, and one would be meaningless without the other. – Deepak Chopra

How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I’m committed to? – Tony Robbins

You are more likely to act yourself into feelings, than feel yourself into action. – Dr. Jerome Brunner

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. – James Freeman Clarke

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it. – Stevie Wonder

A person can succeed at almost anything for which they have unlimited enthusiasm. – Charles M. Schwab

Every man, as to character, is the creature of the age in which he lives. Very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of their times. – Voltaire

Character and personal force are the only investments that are worth anything. – Walt Whitman

No dream comes true until you wake up and go to work. – Anonymous

No one can go back and make a brand new start. Anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. – Unknown

Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it. – Julia Child

We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. = Frederick Keonig

In the final analysis, there is no solution to man’s progress but the day’s honest work, the day’s honest decisions, the day’s generous utterances and the day’s good deed. – Clare Booth Luce

The greatest form of maturity is at harvest time. This is when we must learn how to reap without complaint if the amounts are small and how to reap without apology if the amounts are big. – Jim Rohn

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser. – Lou Holtz

We will receive not what we idly wish for, but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service. – Earl Nightingale

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks. – Jack Penn

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit. – Desiderius Erasmus

Small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results. – Brian Tracy

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. – Carlos Castaneda

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. – Malcolm Forbes

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause. – Jim Cathcart

The greatest conflicts are not between two people, but between one person and himself. – Garth Brooks

Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. – George Washington Carver

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste. – Henry Ford: Founder

You are in the business of prospecting, presenting and following up. All else is secondary. – Brian Tracy

I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is, why did other people stop? – William Stafford

People get what they want in life when they reach the point at which they can see themselves having what they seek. – Thomas D. Willhite

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. – Maya Angelou

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create. – Raoul Vaneigem

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work 12 hours a day. – Anonymous

Don’t celebrate closing a sale; celebrate opening a relationship. – Patricia Fripp

Even if you are new in sales, you can make up in numbers what you lack in skills. – Jim Rohn

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. – Peter Drucker

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. – Napoleon Hill

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. – Elbert Hubbard

The greatest conflicts are not between two people, but between one person and himself. – Garth Brooks

Follow your heart and your dreams will come true. – Anonymous

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. – Jerry Chin

Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny. – Don Sutton

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The whole secret of freedom from anxiety over not having enough time lies not in working more hours, but in the proper planning of the hours. – Frank Bettger

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts. – Harold Nicolson

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars. – Lee Salk

We are made to persist. That’s how we find out who we are. – Tobias Wolff

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. – Henry Ford

There is only one success — to spend your life in your own way. – Christopher Morley

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming. – Katherine Mansfield

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. – Frank Capra

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears. – Arthur Christopher Benson

One should not exaggerate the importance of trifles. Life, for instance, is much too short to be taken seriously. – Nicolas Bentley

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown. – Claude Bernanos

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. – Helen Keller

How soon ‘not now’ becomes ‘never’. – Martin Luther

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character. – Heraclitus

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it. – Rene Descartes

Today, you have 100% of your life left. – Tom Hopkins

Follow your bliss. – Joseph Campbell

Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. = Swami Sivananda Saraswati

Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first. – Frederick Wilcox

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. – T.S. Eliot

You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go. – Jim Rohn

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. – George Eliot

A person can succeed at almost anything for which they have unlimited enthusiasm. – Charles M. Schwab

If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you’ll achieve the same results. – Tony Robbins

Each is responsible for his own actions. – H. L. Hunt

The time is always right to do what is right. – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

There is only one success — to spend your life in your own way. – Christopher Morley

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. – Confucius

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well. – Henry W. Longfellow

Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. – Swami Sivananda Saraswati

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture. – Charles Caleb Colton

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction. – Rita Mae Brown

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it’s the same problem you had last year. – John Foster Dulles

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will. – Vince Lombardi

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We will receive not what we idly wish for, but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service. – Earl Nightingale

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

At the end of each day, you should play back the tapes of your performance. The results should either applaud you or prod you. – Jim Rohn

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible. – Vince Lombardi

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. – Henry Ford