“Choice, not chance, determines human destiny.”
– Robert W. Ellis

“A man can get discouraged many times, but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.”
– John Burroughs, Writer

“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.”
– J.C. Penney, businessman

“I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it.”
– Jonathan Winters, Comedian

“True grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done.”
– John Wayne

“No matter how bad someone has it, there are others who have it worse. Remembering that makes life a lot easier and allows you to take pleasure in the blessings you have been given.”
– Lou Holtz

“Common sense is genius dressed up in work clothes.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end.”
– Denis Waitley

“The biggest tragedy in America is not the great waste of natural resources – though this is tragic; the biggest tragedy is the waste of human resources because the average person goes to his grave with his music still in him.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Time flies. It’s up to you to be the navigator.”
– Robert Orben

“You can’t talk yourself out of a problem you behave yourself into.”
– Stephen Covey, Author and Speaker

“Determine never to be idle. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.”
– Thomas Jefferson, Third U.S. President

“Do a little more than you’re paid to. Give a little more than you have to. Try a little harder than you want to. Aim a little higher than you think possible, and give a lot of thanks to God for health, family, and friends.”
– Art Linkletter

“Your greatness is measured by your horizons.”
– Michelangelo

“A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.”
– Ken Keyes

“Ninety percent of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit.”
– Paul J. Meyer

“Three billion people on the face of the earth go to bed hungry every night, but four billion people go to bed every night hungry for a simple word of encouragement and recognition.”
– Cavett Robert

“It’s not where you start – it’s where you finish that counts.”
– Zig Ziglar, Author

“People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.”
– Sir Richard Steele

“We must become the change we wish to see in the world.”
– Mahatma Gandhi, Statesman

“When you believe and think “I can,” you activate your motivation, commitment, confidence, concentration and excitement – all of which relate directly to achievement.”
– Dr. Jerry Lynch

“Eighty-five percent of the reason you get a job, keep that job, and move ahead in that job has to do with your people skills and people knowledge.”
– Cavett Robert

“The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example.”
– Thomas Morell, Librettist

“Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.”
– Publilius Syrus

“Any person who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved, has already defined his own limitations.”
– Cavett Robert

“In the middle of every difficulty comes opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein

“The nose of the bulldog is slanted backwards so he can continue to breathe without letting go.”
– Winston Churchill, British prime minister

“Evidence is conclusive that your self-talk has a direct bearing on your performance.”
– Zig Ziglar, Motivational Speaker

“The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.”
– Ernest Dimnet

“You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.”
– James Allen

“When you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, the day will come when you can do the things you want to do when you want to do them.”
– Zig Ziglar, Motivational Speaker

“The only difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is extraordinary determination.”
– Mary Kay Ash, Entrepreneur

“Skill to do comes of doing.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poet

“Until you commit your goals to paper, you have intentions that are seeds without soil.”
– Anonymous

“Only those who constantly retool themselves stand a chance of staying employed in the years ahead.”
– Tom Peters, Author

“Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly – until you learn to do it well.”
– Steve Brown

“It’s the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class.”
– J. Willard Marriot

“If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.”
– Vince Lombardi, American Football Coach

“Sometimes the best helping hand you can get is a good, firm push.”
– Joann Thomas

“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.”
– James Allen

“A vision is a clearly-articulated, results-oriented picture of a future you intend to create. It is a dream with direction.”
– Jesse Stoner Zemel

“The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.”
– Ferdinand Foch, military strategist

“A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.”
– Grace Hopper, American Computer Scientist

“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.”
– Benjamin Franklin, Inventor

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
– Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States

“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson, Author

“The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win.”
– Bobby Knight, Basketball Head Coach

“A work well begun is half-ended.”
– Plato, Philosopher

“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.”
– Booker T. Washington, Educator

“One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered. ”
– Michael J. Fox, Actor

“Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.”
– Zig Ziglar, Author

“Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.”
– Denis Diderot, French Philosopher and Writer

“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill, British prime minister

“The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.”
– Peter Drucker, Businessman

“What lies behind us, and what lies before us, are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poet

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

“Dig the well before you are thirsty.”
– Chinese Proverb

“Courage is not limited to the battlefield. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like enduring pain when the room is empty or standing alone when you’re misunderstood.”
– Charles Swindoll

“Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless.”
– Mary Kay Ash, Entrepreneur

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

“Worry often gives a small thing a great shadow.”
– Swedish Proverb

“Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; and the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say not to oneself.”
– Abraham Joshua Heschel, Leading Jewish theologian of the 20th century

“Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.”
– Dorothea Brande, Writer

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Author

“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.”
– Hans Hoffmann

“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.”
– Japanese Proverb

“You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.”
– Henry Ford, Founder of the Ford Motor Company

“The miracle is this – the more we share, the more we have.”
– Leonard Nimoy, Actor

“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the staircase.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader

“Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.”
– Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

“Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poet

“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.”
– Andrew Carnegie, Industrialist

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Darrell Royal

“The key is not to prioritize what is on the schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”
– Stephen Covey, Author and Speaker

“You’ll always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
– Wayne Gretzky, Hockey Player

“Life begins when you do.”
– Hugh Downs, American Broadcaster

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
– Chinese Proverb

“Asking questions will get you the performance you are after far better than dictating demands.”
– Dan James

“Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.”
– Washington Irving, American Author

“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Author

“I am a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work, the more I have of it.”
– Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States of America

“If you want to achieve a high goal, you’re going to have to take some chances.”
– Alberto Salazar, American Marathon Runner

“The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.”
– Peter F. Drucker, Author and Management Expert

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

“Chance favors those in motion.”
– James H. Austin, Professor of Neurology and Author

“In a moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
– Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States

“Samson killed a thousand men with the jaw bone of an ass. That many sales are killed every day with the same weapon.”
– Anonymous

“Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.”
– Peter F. Drucker, Author and Management Expert

“Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively.”
– Gerald R. Ford, 38th President of the United States

“Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.”
– Arthur Christopher Benson, British Author

“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter 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 that blow that did it – but all that had gone before.”
– Jacob Riis, Photographer and Journalist

“Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it. ”
– Irving Berlin, American Composer and Lyricist

“Purpose and laughter are the twins that must not separate. Each is empty without the other.”
– Robert K. Greenleaf, Founder of the modern Servant leadership movement

“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.”
– Michael Altshuler

“Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, “Make me feel important.” Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”
– Mary Kay Ash, Entrepreneur

“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.”
– Henry David Thoreau, Author, Philosopher

“People die of fright and live of confidence.”
– Henry David Thoreau, Author, Philosopher

“Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.”
– Claude M. Bristol, Author

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
– Benjamin Franklin, Inventor

“Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.”
– Jim Rohn, Author

“Confidence and enthusiasm are the greatest sales producers in any kind of economy.”
– O. B. Smith

“If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.”
– Bruce Barton, Executive

“The great use of life is to spend it doing something that will outlast it.”
– William James, Psychologist

“Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.”
– Thomas Jefferson, Third U.S. President

“Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
– William Faulkner, Author