We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.o Aristotle

The best way out is always through.o Robert Frost

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.o William B. Sprague

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.o Albert Einstein

Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.o Henry Ford

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.o Oprah Winfrey

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 00 games. times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.o Michael Jordan

You must be the change you want to see in the world.o Mahatma Gandhi

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.o Goethe

You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.o Zig Ziglar

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.o Mahatma Gandhi

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.o Napoleon Hill

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.o Truman Capote

Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.o Japanese Proverb

In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.o Theodore Roosevelt

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.o Isaac B. Singer

Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.o Unknown

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.o Charles F. Kettering, Engineer and Inventor

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.o Mark Twain

Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.o Unknown

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

Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.o Dan Stanford

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.o Albert Einstein

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.o Hugh Downs

If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.o Marie Osmond

Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.o Roy Goodman

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.o E. Joseph Cossman

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.o Ralph Waldo Emerson

We judge of man’s wisdom by his hope.o Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.o Mark Twain

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.o Mark Twain

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.o Mark Twain

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

o Mark Twain The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

o Richard B. Sheridan Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just

take the first step.”o Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

”Act or accept.”o Anonymous

Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.o Tim Blixseth

The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape.o Bono

Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.o Dr Phil

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.o Stephen R. Covey

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.o Norman Vincent Peale

Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.o Anonymous

Being defeated is only a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent.o Marilyn vos Savant, Author and Advice Columnist

I can’t understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I’m frightened by old ones.o John Cage

Fall down seven times, get up eight.o Japanese Proverb

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.o Unknown

The best way to predict the future is to create it.o Unknown

Anyone can do something when they WANT to do it. Really successful people do things when they don’t want to do it.o Dr. Phil

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.o Dr. Denis Waitley

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.o Sir Winston Churchill

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don’t quit.o Conrad Hilton

Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.o Unknown

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.o John Wooden

There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.o Mario Cuomo

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.o Richard Bach

Vision doesn’t usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.o Dr. Michael Norwood

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

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.o Samuel Beckett

Flops are a part of life’s menu and I’ve never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.o Rosalind Russell

Cause Change & Lead, Accept Change & Survive, Resist Change & Dieo Ray Norda, Chairman, Novell

Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you’re still trying, keep it up! You’re right on track.o Matthew Keith Groves

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.o Bill Bernbach

An obstacle is often a stepping stone.o Prescott

Life is “trying things to see if they work”o Ray Bradbury

If you worry about yesterday’s failures, then today’s successes will be few.

o Anonymous Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.

o Dennis P. Kimbro We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided

each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.o Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.o Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In matters of style, swim with the current;in matters of principle, stand like a rock.o Thomas Jefferson

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.o Albert Einstein

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

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

You are what you think about all day long.” o Dr. Robert Schuller

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say” o Ralph Waldo Emerson”

Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.o Booker T. Washington

Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.”o Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.o Elbert Hubbard

If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.o J.M. Power

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a dayo Robert Frost

I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.o Maya Angelou

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.o William James

When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’o Sydney Harris

Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.o Richard L. Evans

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.o Robert Frost

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.o Eleanor Roosevelt

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.o Seneca

Do first things first, and second things not at all.o Peter Drucker.

The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.o Foster’s Law

Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.o Joe Clark

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

o Winston Churchill Positive anything is better than negative thinking.

o Elbert Hubbard People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession

of character.o Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who wish to sing, always find a song.o Swedish Proverb

If you’re going through hell, keep going.o Winston Churchill

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.o Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.o Voltaire

Enduring habits I hate…. Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.o Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 1882

There is no education like adversity.o Disraeli

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.o Friedrich Nietzsche

Adversity introduces a man to himself.o Author Unknown

The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.o W. Somerset Maugham

Have the passion, take the action & magic will happen.o Bar Rafaeli

“If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.”o Dhirubhai Ambani

 “The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.”o Mark Caine 

“People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.”o Tony Robbins

“When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”o Audre Lorde 

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”o Mark Twain

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”o Eleanor Roosevelt

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”o Thomas A. Edison 

“If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents. Value what you know & start charging for it.”o Kim Garst

 ”A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”o David Brinkley

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push

the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”o Steve Jobs

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”o Eleanor Roosevelt

“Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.”o Roger Babson

 “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”o Mahatma Gandhi

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”o Mark Twain

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

“Success is about creating benefit for all and enjoying the process. If you focus on this & adopt this definition, success is yours.”o Kelly Kim

“I used to want the words ‘She tried’ on my tombstone. Now I want ‘She did it.’”o Katherine Dunham 

 “Really it comes down to your philosophy. Do you want to play it safe and be good or do you want to take a chance and be great?”o Jimmy J 

“It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”o J. K Rowling

“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”o Albert Einstein

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”o Harriet Tubman

“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”o Bruce Lee

“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.”o Swami Vivekananda 

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”o Dale Carnegie 

“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”o Jim Rohn

“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”o Ayn Rand

“If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it – teach yourself to be impatient.”o Gurbaksh Chahal

“Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.”o Robert Kiyosaki 

“If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!”o T. Harv Eker

“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”o Steve Jobs

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”

o Helen Keller “Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he

sees all day.” o H. Jackson Brown, Jr. 

“Three things in human life are important:  The first is to be kind.  The second is to be kind.  And the third is to be kind.” o Henry James

“Success is not the key to happiness; happiness is the key to success.” o Albert Zweiter

”Happiness is the secret to all beauty. There is no beauty without happiness.” o Christian Dior

“If you aren’t happy single, you won’t be happy taken. Happiness comes from within. Not from others.” o Unknown

”There’s no better feeling than making somebody smile.”o Unknown 

“When within yourself you find the road, the right road will open.”o Dejan Stojanovic 

”It is our own thoughts that hold the key to miraculous transformation.”o Marianne Williamson

“Someday you’ll realize that every time you thought you were being rejected from something good, you were just being pointed toward something better.”o Unknown

“A moment of gratitude makes a difference in your attitude.” o Bruce Wilkinson

“Always be a little kinder than necessary.” o James M. Barrie

“Some days, you just have to create your own sunshine.” o Unknown

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. o Mahatma Gandhi  

 True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. o Antoine de Saint-Exupery 

Remember that being a success without happiness is meaningless. o Richard Denny

“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” o Unknown

Those who are the happiest, never did have everything. But rather, they are thankful for what they have.”

o Unknown ”You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage

– pleasantly, smilingly, non apologetically – to say ‘no’ to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger ‘yes’ burning inside.” o Stephen R. Covey

“Always laugh and smile when you can. It’s the cheapest medicine.”o Unknown