“I learned that good judgment comes from experience and that experience grows out of mistakes.”
– Omar Bradley, general

“Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.”
– Henry Kaiser, industrialist

“Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.”
– Phillips Brooks, clergyman

“Courage is rarely reckless or foolish. Courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced.”
– Margaret Truman, author

“You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.”
– George Lucas, director

“You are not beaten until you admit it.”
– George Patton, general

“Wisdom is knowing what to do; virtue is doing it.”
– David Jordan, scientist

“Dreams never hurt anybody if he keeps working right behind the dream to make as much of it become real as he can.”
– Frank Woolworth, Entrepreneur

“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged and increased constantly, or it vanishes.”
– Peter Drucker, management expert

“Problems should be solved on the spot, as soon as they arise. No frontline employee should have to wait for a supervisor’s permission.”
– Jan Carlzon, airline executive

“Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.”
– Helen Keller, lecturer

“All men who deliberate on controversial matters should do it free of hate, friendship, anger and pity.”
– Sallust, historian

“We can learn from past failures and mistakes, but we shouldn’t get stuck there. We can keep future goals in mind, but we shouldn’t get stuck there, either. The only way to reach our potential is to focus on what we must do now – this moment, this day – to perform effectively and win.”
– Joe Torre

“The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it.”
– Roger Babson, executive

“Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.”
– Demosthenes, statesman

“The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character just as the great actor is absorbed in… the part he plays.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
– Mother Teresa, charity worker

“All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.”
– Napolean Hill, author

“Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations.”
– Federico Fellini, director

“A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer and attempting a task he cannot achieve.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., physician

“No matter what it is, pick yourself up and go on to the next project.”
– Shelley Duvall, actress

“Deal first with whatever is causing you the greatest emotional distress. Often this will break the logjam in your work and free you up mentally to complete (the) other tasks.”
– Brian Tracy, motivational coach

“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, basketball coach

“If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy. ”
– Dale Carnegie, motivational expert

“I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level.”
– Diana Nyad, swimmer

“Don’t ever be afraid to admit you were wrong. It’s like saying you’re wiser today than you were yesterday.”
– Robert Newell, humorist

“Character is built daily by the way one thinks and acts – thought by thought, action by action.”
– Helen Douglas, legislator

“I don’t think that once you get to one level, you can relax. You’ve got to keep pushing. ”
– Larry Bird, basketball player

“Life is the sum of all your choices.”
– Albert Camus, Author

“All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.”
– Orison Swett Marden, writer

“You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them.”
– Malcolm Forbes, publisher

“The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better.”
– Barbara Pletcher, author

“If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world. Successful enterprises are built from the ground up.”
– Lou Gerstner, IBM CEO

“If you want to get the best out of a person you must look for the best that is in him.”
– Bernard Haldane

“Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.”
– Charles de Gaulle, statesman

“Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.”
– Cavett Robert

“The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.”
– Samuel Johnson, Lexicographer

“There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity.”
– Tom Peters, Author

“No great performance ever came from holding back.”
– Don Greene, performance coach

“It is dangerous to go into eternity with possibilities that oneself has prevented from becoming realities. A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it. ”
– Soren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

“It’s not what you do once in a while; it’s what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.”
– Jenny Craig, diet guru

“A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.”
– Michel de Montaigne, writer

“I love the man who can smile in trouble, gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection.”
– Thomas Paine, Statesman

“I have never known a really successful man who deep in his heart did not understand the grind, the discipline it takes to win.”
– Vince Lombardi, American Football Coach

“What will your children remember? Moments spent listening, talking, playing and sharing together may be the most important times of all.”
– Gloria Gaither

“The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.”
– John McEnroe, tennis champion

“Life without risk is not worth living.”
– Chuck Lindbergh, aviator

“Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits.”
– Casey Stengel, baseball manager

“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, author

“You have set yourself a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere.”
– Helen Adams Keller, American Author and Lecturer

“Lost time is never found again.”
– Benjamin Franklin, inventor

“Until you make peace with who you are you will never be content with what you have.”
– Doris Mortman

“Experience is valuable only if it’s imbued with meaning from which one can draw salient conclusions. Otherwise, experience becomes imprisoning.”
– Barry McCaffrey, general

“Rowing harder doesn’t help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.”
– Kenichi Ohmae, business coach

“Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.”
– Plautus, Playwright

“Each man (is) the architect of his own fortune.”
– Appius Caecus, builder

“For every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.”
– Clement Stone, executive

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

“Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead… You can only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.”
– Kathleen Norris, Writer

“Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire, and begin at once, whether you’re ready or not, to put it into action.”
– Napoleon Hill, motivational expert

“I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint–and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing ”
– Oprah Winfrey, Talk Show Host

“Leaders get out front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves – and by which they are willing to be judged.”
– Frederick Smith, Federal Express founder

“Success is waking up in the morning and bounding out of bed because there’s something out there that you love to do, that you believe in, that you’re good at – something that’s bigger than you are, and you can hardly wait to get at it again.”
– Whit Hobbs

“Before a person can achieve the kind of life he wants, he must think, act, walk, talk and conduct himself in all of his affairs as would the person he wishes to become.”
– Zig Ziglar, Author

“Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.”
– Josh Billings, humorist

“In real estate, it’s location, location, location. In business, it’s differentiate, differentiate, differentiate.”
– Robert Goizueta, executive

“To be prepared is half the victory.”
– Miguel de Cervantes

“Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. It’s the end you’re after.”
– Anthony Robbins, Motivational Speaker

“The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be.”
– David Ogilvy, Advertising Executive

“The person who pays an ounce of principle for a pound of popularity gets badly cheated.”
– Ronald Reagan, 40th U.S. president

“If you don’t fail now and again, it’s a sign you’re playing it safe.”
– Woody Allen, Director

“Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.”
– Tom Landry, football coach

“Giving up is the ultimate tragedy.”
– Robert Donovan, writer

“Keep your sense of humor. There’s enough stress in the rest of your life to let bad shots ruin a game you’re supposed to enjoy.”
– Amy Alcott, golfer

“If you want to leave your footprints on the sands of time, be sure you’re wearing work shoes.”
– Author Unknown

“Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.”
– Alan Alda, Actor

“It is the studying that you do after your school days that really counts. Otherwise, you know only that which everyone else knows.”
– Henry Doherty

“If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then you are an excellent leader.”
– Dolly Parton, Singer

“In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.”
– Paul Harvey, broadcaster

“Not only strike when the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.”
– Oliver Cromwell, military leader

“Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterward to explain that it was not possible.”
– Cesar Ritz, hotelier

“The entrepreneur is… the most important player in the building of the global economy. So much so that big companies are reconstituting themselves as networks of entrepreneurs.”
– John Naisbitt, writer

“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 Marriott Sr., hotel executive