Leadership (Goals / Vision)

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments. – Jim Rohn

People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going. – Earl Nightingale

The most important thing about goals is… having one. – Geoffry F. Abert

The most important thing about having goals is having one. – Geoffrey F. Abert

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

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action. – Napolean Hill

Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy! – Brian Tracy

Plan your work and work your plan. Decide in advance exactly how you are going to get from where you are to where you want to go. – Brian Tracy

After you’ve done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. After ten years, throw it away and start all over. – Alfred Edward Perlman

Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. – George Patton

Divide your desired annual salary by the 2,000 hours that you work each year in order to establish your desired hourly rate. From then on, do only things that pay that rate or higher. – Brian Tracy

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. – Leon Suenens

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. – Neil Peart

If you have the courage to step outside of your comfort zone, you will not only be amazed by the marvel and sights of the world, but also with the wonders that lay deep within yourself. – Rosanna Ienco

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit that we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory. – George Marshall

It isn’t where you came from; it’s where you’re going that counts. – Ella Fitzgerald

Just because fate doesn’t deal you the right cards, it doesn’t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential. – Les Brown

Life is a field of unlimited possibilities. – Deepak Chopra

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil; our great hope lies in developing what is good. – Calvin Coolidge

Losers see thunderstorms, winners see rainbows; losers see icy streets, winners put on their ice skates! – Denis Waitley

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. – George S. Patton

Nov 5

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. – Neil Peart

Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest. – Colleen Wainwright

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open. – Alexander Graham Bell

I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones. – John Cage

When you believe you can…you can! – Maxwell Maltz

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. – Eleanor Roosevelt

It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life. – Queen Christina

The meaning of life is to give life meaning. – Ken Hudgins

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer, Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. – Henry David Thoreau

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

No age or time of life, no position or circumstance, has a monopoly on success. Any age is the right age to start doing! – Ralph Gerard

In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. – Bertrand Russell

Nov 4

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

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand – Confucius

Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got – Janis Joplin

We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it. – William Butler Yeats

There are generations yet unborn, whose very lives will be shifted and shaped by the moves you make and the actions you take. – Andy Andrews

The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something. – Carl Sandburg

Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day. – Bible

Defeat has its lessons as well as victory. – Patrick Buchanan

It is always your next move. – Napoleon Hill

We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us — how we can take it, what we do with it — and that is what really counts in the end. – Joseph Fort Newton

When a defining moment comes along, you can do one of two things. Define the moment, or let the moment define you. – Tin Cup (the movie)

Nov 3

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. – Machiavelli

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. – Bertrand Russell

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. – Oscar Wilde

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success. – Joyce Brothers

We only go around once. There’s really no time to be afraid. So stop. Try something you’ve never tried. Teach it. Do it. Risk it. – Jon Blais

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team. – Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

Dare to soar – how successful you are is determined by your attitude. – Unknown

The majority of men meet with failure because (they don’t create) new plans to take the place of those that fail. – Napoleon Hill

We may be very busy, we may be very efficient, but we will also be truly effective only when we begin with the end in mind. – Stephen Covey

When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge. – Tuli Kupferberg

I was thinking one day and I realized that if I just had somebody behind me all the way to motivate me I could make a big difference. Nobody came along like that so I just became that person for myself. – Unknown

There are two kinds of people: Those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group because there is less competition there. – Indira Gandhi

Life can only be understood backwards, but must be lived forwards. – Soren Kierkegaard

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. – George Patton

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way. – Wayne Dyer

Leadership (Achievement)

Ideas are the beginning of all achievement. – Bruce Lee

Spectacular achievements are always preceded by unspectacular preparation. – Roger Staubach

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. – Mahatma Gandhi

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. – Mahatma Gandhi

The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person. – Norman Vincent Peale

You and I possess within ourselves, at every moment, under all circumstances, the power to transform the quality of our lives. – Werner Erhard

The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. – Amelia Earhart

The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability. – Henry Ford

The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore. – Dale Carnegie

There are generations yet unborn, whose very lives will be shifted and shaped by the moves you make and the actions you take. – Andy Andrews

To try and fail is at least to learn. To fail to try is to suffer the loss of what might have been. – Benjamin Franklin

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

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you develop yourself to the point where your belief in yourself is so strong that you know you can accomplish anything you put your mind to, your future will be unlimited. – Brian Tracy

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. – Beverly Sills

Nov 2

If you don’t invest very much, then defeat doesn’t hurt very much and winning is not very exciting. – Dick Vermeil

…self-contempt never inspires lasting change. – Jane R. Hirschmann and Carol H. Munter

The first step toward change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself, you open the door to change. That’s all you have to do. Change is not something you do, it’s something you allow. – Will Garcia

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. – Dale Carnegie

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug. – Patricia Neal

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. – Alexander Pope

A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame someone else. – John Burroughs

But where was I to start? The world is so vast. I shall start with the country I know best, my own. But my country is so very large. I had better start with my town. But my town, too, is large. I had best start with my street. No: my home. No: my family. Never mind, I shall start with myself. – Elie Wiesel

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon them and to let them know that you trust them. – Booker T. Washington

The key to building wealth is to preserve capital and wait patiently for the right opportunity to make the extraordinary gains. – Victor Sperandeo

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows. – St. Francis of Assisi

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. . . . Explore. Dream. – Mark Twain

Without ambition, one starts nothing. Without work, one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only disability in life is a bad attitude. – Scott Hamilton

A persistent strong desire pushes your goal into manifestation. – Remez Sasson

Nov 1

If you want success badly enough, you must weigh each thought, action, and experience. The reward you reap will be the knowledge of some of history’s best kept secret, which when understood and applied will truly guide you to the success in life that all have dreamed about, but only few have attained – Thomas D. Willhite

Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The pain of discipline is far less than the pain of regret. – Sarah Bombell

The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it. – Sidney J. Harris

I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently. – Ernest Hemingway

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough. – Oprah Winfrey

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out – because that’s what’s inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside. – Wayne Dyer

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. – Alexandre Dumas

There is a way to look at the past. Don’t hide from it. It will not catch you — if you don’t repeat it. – Pearl Bailey

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. – Charles Darwin

The most important thing about goals is… having one. – Geoffry F. Abert

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. – Seneca

Oct 31

With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose. – Wayne Dyer

It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act. – Charles Caleb Colton

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. – Miguel de Cervantes

We cannot hold a torch to light another person’s path without brightening our own. – Ben Sweetland

There is no such thing as luck. It’s a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes. – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton,

The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing. – Billie Jean King

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. – Carl Jung

The human race has one effective weapon–and that is laughter. – Mark Twain

It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit that we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory. – George Marshall

After you’ve done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. After ten years, throw it away and start all over. – Alfred Edward Perlman
The reason why most people face the future with apprehension instead of anticipation is because they don’t have it well designed. – Jim Rohn

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy! – Brian Tracy

Leadership – October 2009

Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation. – Woodrow Wilson

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

Genuine leadership comes from the quality of your vision and your ability to spark others to extraordinary performance. – Jack Welch

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

It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle. – Sun Tzu

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. – Michel de Montaigne

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. – Carl. W. Buechner

To play it safe is not to play. – Robert Altman

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls. – Winston Churchill

We cannot hold a torch to light another person’s path without brightening our own. – Ben Sweetland

What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers. – Matina Horner

When a defining moment comes along, you can do one of two things. Define the moment, or let the moment define you. – Tin Cup (the movie)

When we feel stuck, going nowhere — even starting to slip backward — we may actually be backing up to get a running start. – Dan Millman

When you get into a tight place and it seems that you can’t go on, hold on — for that’s just the place and the time that the tide will turn. – Harriet Beecher Stowe

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. – Vince Lombardi

You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all. – J. Askenberg

Oct 30

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. – Charles Buxton

Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal sets a higher one. – Ralph Ransom

People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be — whether they will admit that or not. – Earl Nightingale

The doors of wisdom are never shut. – Benjamin Franklin

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. – Ernest Hemingway

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. – Thomas Szasz

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. – Aristotle

Insight occurs when, and to the degree that, one knows oneself. – Andrew Schneider

We are not what we know. We are what we are willing to learn. – Council on Ideas

Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible. – Mary Bethune

Diligence is the mother of good luck. – Benjamin Franklin

The most important thing about having goals is having one. – Geoffrey F. Abert