quotes Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.
-- Zig Ziglar, Author and Speaker

People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.
-- Stedman Graham Speaker, Author and Educator

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task that, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
-- William James, 1842-1910, Psychologist, Professor and Author

If criticism is mistaken or mean-spirited, rise above it. Maintain the high ground when you're under fire. No victory is worth winning at the expense of picking up the mud that has been slung at you and throwing it back.
-- Rubel Shelly, Preacher, Educator and Author

Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you?
-- Josh Hinds, Syndicated Columnist and Author

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.
-- Charles "Tremendous" Jones, Speaker and Author

People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to look forward to...to work for and hope for.
-- Dr. Maxwell Maltz, Author of "Psycho-Cybernetics"

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
-- Phyllis Bottome, 1884-1963, Novelist and Lecturer

There are no hopeless situations; there are only people who have grown hopeless about them.
-- Clare Boothe, 1903-1987, Author

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
-- Margaret Thatcher, Former British Prime Minister

Believe in yourself and there will come a day when others will have no choice but to believe with you.
-- Cynthia Kersey, Author of "Unstoppable Women"

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
-- George Herbert, 1593-1632, Poet

Give to the world the best you have, and the best will come back to you.
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox, 1855-1919, Poet and Journalist

When you paint success pictures in your mind, you initiate an inner process whereby your attitudes, hopes, aspirations, and enthusiasm are elevated in response to an image of a more promising future. Every person who aspires must first sell themselves hope, the promise of a better life.
-- U.S. Andersen, Author and Speaker

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.
If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.
-- Emily Post, Author

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1811-1896, Novelist

No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.
-- Channing Pollock, Actor, Writer and Composer

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, and then treat possibilities as probabilities.
-- David Copperfield, Magician

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.
-- Arianna Huffington, Author of "On Becoming Fearless...In Love, Work, and Life"

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 he hears, however measured or far away.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Writer and Philosopher

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
-- Denis Waitley, Speaker and Author

Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.
-- Ralph Marston

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.
-- Ralph Marston

Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.
-- Ralph Marston

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
-- Ralph Marston

It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
-- Ralph Marston

Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return, truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.
-- Ralph Marston

Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.
-- Ralph Marston

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.
-- Ralph Marston

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.
-- Ralph Marston

Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.
-- Ralph Marston

What if you gave someone a gift and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.
-- Ralph Marston

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
-- Ralph Marston

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?.
-- Ralph Marston

You°ve done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.
-- Ralph Marston

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston

The money I have is in direct proportion to the value I've given to others. The more I give of myself, incredibly, the more economic power comes my way.
-- Tod Barnhart, Author of "The Five Rituals of Wealth"

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
-- Sister Elizabeth Kenny, Australian Nurse

Action makes more fortune than caution.
-- Luc De Clapiers, 1715-1747, Essayist

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
-- Mahatma Gandi, Indian Political Leader

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
-- Claude M. Bristol, 1891-1951, Author of "The Magic of Believing"

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated...it is finished when it surrenders.
-- Ben Stein, Professor and Writer

For the mind is the builder and that which we think upon may become crimes or miracles. For thoughts are things and as their currents run through the environs of an entity's experience these become barriers or steppingstones, dependent upon the manner in which these are laid as it were.
For as the mental dwells upon these thoughts, so does it give strength, power to things that do not appear. And thus does indeed there become that as is so oft given, that faith is the evidence of things not seen.
-- Edgar Cayce Reading 906-3

The greatest gift I can give is to listen to, understand and touch another.
-- Virginia Satir

If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
-- Rosalynn Carter, Former American First Lady

People think I'm disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.
-- Luciano Pavarotti, Opera Singer

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your own life, but that doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
-- Oprah Winfrey.

Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.
-- Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, Scientist and Philosopher

See that any time you feel pained or defeated; it is only because you insist on clinging to what doesn't work. Dare to let go and you won't lose a thing except for a punishing idea.
-- Guy Finley, Author of "The Secret of Letting Go"

The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing.
-- Michael E. Gerber, Author of "The E-Myth Revisited"

Every worthwhile accomplishment has a price tag attached to it. The question is always whether you are willing to pay the price to attain it - in hard work, sacrifice, patience, faith, and endurance.
-- John C. Maxwell, Author

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
-- Oprah Winfrey, TV Personality, Producer and Author

The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
-- Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1474-1564, Italian Renaissance Painter and Sculptor

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
-- W. Clement Stone, 1902-2002, Author and Businessman

We lift ourselves by our thought. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere.
-- Orison Swett Marden, 1850-1924, Author and Founder of Success Magazine

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
-- Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President USA

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
-- Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910, Novelist and Philosopher

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
-- Charles Dickens, 1812-1870, Novelist

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires...courage.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882, Poet and Essayist

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
-- Robert Schuller, Author and Minister.

You can't escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
-- Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President.

Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment.
-- Sidney Poitier, Actor and Author of "The Measure of a Man"

People of character do the right thing, not because they think it will change the world but because they refuse to be changed by the world.
-- Michael Josephson, Radio Commentator

Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.
-- Sarah Ban Breathnach, Author of "Simple Abundance"

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
-- Marian Wright Edelman, Lobbyist on Behalf of Children

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
-- Abraham Maslow, 1908-1970, Psychologist

All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, but by rising above them.
-- Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832, Clergyman

You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired of doing nothing. Get interested in something! Get absolutely enthralled in something! Get out of yourself! Be somebody! Do something! The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
-- Norman Vincent Peale, 1898-1993, Pastor, Speaker and Author

The simple step of writing down your ideal scene can lead you to discover the unfailing natural laws of manifestation.
-- Marc Allen, Author of "The Greatest Secret of All: Moving Beyond Abundance to a Life of True Fulfillment"

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are.
-- Muhammad Ali, World Champion Boxer

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
-- Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, British Statesman and Prime Minister

Behold the turtle: He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out.
-- James Bryant Conant, 1893-1978, Educator and Diplomat

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
-- Zig Ziglar

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of man as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
-- Helen Keller, 1880-1968, Blind/Deaf Author and Lecturer

When you're happy for no reason, you're unconditionally happy. It's not that your life always looks perfect - it's just that however it looks, you'll still be happy.
-- Marci Shimoff, Author of "Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out"

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.
-- Oprah Winfrey

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

Take pride in what you do. The kind of pride I'm talking about is not the arrogant puffed-up kind; it's just the whole idea of caring - fiercely caring.
-- Red Auerbach, Professional Basketball Coach

We were not created to be eaten by anxiety, but to walk erect, free, unafraid in a world where there is work to do, truth to seek, love to give and win.
-- Joseph Ford Newton, Author

Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
-- Beatrix Potter, 1866-1943, Author and Illustrator

I was complaining that I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet.|Confucius, 551-479 BC, Chinese Thinker and Social Philosopher
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
-- Peter Marshall, 1902-1949, Clergyman

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
-- Virginia Satir, Family Therapist, Lecturer, Trainer and Author

All successful people are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect. Then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
-- Brian Tracy, Author and founder of the Brian Tracy University

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food.
-- Hippocrates, 460-377 AD

I am not the content of my mind; I am the awareness in the background.
-- Eckhart Tolle

Life isn't as serious as my mind makes it out to be.
-- Eckhart Tolle

Thinking without awareness is the main dilemma of human existence.
-- Eckhart Tolle

Thinking is only a tiny aspect of the consciousness of who we are.
-- Eckhart Tolle

I try to find myself in things, but never quite make it and end up losing myself in them. That is the fate of the ego.
Eckhart Tolle

What you react to in another you strengthen in yourself.
-- Eckhart Tolle

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.
-- Anita Roddick, Founder of The Body Shop and campaigner for environmental and social issues

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
-- Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Novelist

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees their goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
-- Cecil B deMille, 1881-1959, US Movie Director

Everything you have in your life, you have attracted to yourself because of the way you think, because of the person that you are. You can change your life because you can change the way you think.
-- Brian Tracy, Author of "The Psychology of Achievement"

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.
-- Author Unknown

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.
-- Dr Norman Vincent Peale, 1898-1993, Clergyman and Author of "The Power of Positive Thinking"

Loyalty is something you give regardless of what you get back, and in giving loyalty, you're getting more loyalty; and out of loyalty flow other great qualities.
-- Charles "Tremendous" Jones, Speaker and Author

Nothing limits achievement like small thinking - nothing expands possibilities like unleashed thinking.
-- William Arthur Ward, 1921-1994, American Author

Self-acceptance comes from meeting life's challenges vigorously. Don't numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.
-- J. Donald Walters, Author, Lecturer and Playwright

Love may not make the world go 'round - but it sure makes the ride worthwhile.
-- Sean Connery

Success is getting what you want - and happiness is wanting what you get.
-- Dave Gardner, Canadian Professional Ice Hockey player

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
-- Robert Byrne

There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
-- Stephen Covey

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
-- Marie Curie

I have become obsessed with thinking positive thoughts and not feeling negative ones, which has resulted in a virtual descent into insanity.
The moral..feel negative thoughts first, release them through expression and then think positive ones. This way around, it works and brings about great joy.
-- Sarah Demellweek

How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?
-- Tony Robbins, 'Peak Performance Coach'

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
-- Hermann Hesse, 1877-1962, Novelist and Poet

It is a very funny thing about life - if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
-- W. Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965, Novelist and Playwright

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working 24 hours a day for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
-- Tom Bland, Author

One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
-- John Stuart Mill, 1806-1873, Member of Parliament, Author and Philosopher

The greatest glory in living lies in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
-- Nelson Mandela, Anti-apartheid activist and 11th President of South Africa

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
-- Jim Rohn, American Business Philosopher and Author

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach, Writer

Life is like riding a bike. It is impossible to maintain your balance while standing still.
-- Linda Brakeall, Author of "Unlocking the Secrets of Successful Women in Business"

They can because they think they can.
-- Publius Virgilius Maro (Virgil), Classical Roman Poet

When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.
-- Chinese Proverb

Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
-- David O. Mckay, 1873-1970, Church Leader and Educator

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
-- Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862, American Author and Philosopher

Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more.
-- A. Lou Vickery, Writer

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.
-- Cicely Tyson, Emmy Award-Winning Actress

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
-- William Feather, 1889-1981, Writer

If things are not going well with you, begin your effort at correcting the situation by carefully examining the service you are rendering, and especially the spirit in which you are rendering it.
-- Roger Babson, 1875-1967, Statistician and Columnist

If criticism is mistaken or mean-spirited, rise above it. Maintain the high ground when you're under fire. No victory is worth winning at the expense of picking up the mud that has been slung at you and throwing it back.
-- Rubel Shelly, Preacher, Educator and Author

Desire is the starting point of all achievement - not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
-- Napoleon Hill, 1883 - 1970, Author of "The Philosophy of Achievement"

I will waste not even a precious second today in anger or hate or jealousy or selfishness. I know that the seeds I sow I will harvest, because every action, good or bad, is always followed by an equal reaction. I will plant only good seeds this day.
-- Og Mandino, 1923-1996, Author and Speaker

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
-- Lou Holtz, American Football Coach and Motivational Speaker

Tough times never last, but tough people do.
-- Robert H. Schuller, Evangelist and Author

For many an individual entity those things that are of sorrow are the greater helps for unfoldment.
-- Edgar Cayce Reading 3209-2

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.
-- Mary Kay Ash, 1918-2001, Businesswoman - Founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California and Actor

It is hope in this wider sense which enabled my father to build, from scratch, one of India's largest modern enterprises. His was an undertaking powered by hard work, initiative, self-belief but, above all else, the capacity, as he would often say, "to dream with your eyes wide open.
-- Anil Ambani, Indian Businessman

Happiness is found in doing. Not merely in possessing.
-- Napoleon Hill, Author of "Think and Grow Rich"

Not only can you do something about the length of your life, but you should also do something about its width and depth.
-- Anon

Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
-- St. Francis of Assisi

There are a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.
-- Anon

Ideas may be as thoughts, made criminal or miracles. Be sure the ideal is proper. Follow that irrespective of outside influence. Know self is right, and then go straight ahead.
-- Edgar Cayce Reading 1739-6

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
-- Frank Gifford, American Football Player and Commentator

One of the lessons I've learned is that the quality of the answers that we get in life is truly determined by the quality of the questions we ask.
-- Paul Martinelli, Speaker and President of LifeSuccess Consulting

I believe people should study a little bit every day. It should become habitual, like brushing your teeth, combing your hair, having a shower or getting dressed. Study the mind, the laws of the universe and paradigms. There's enough information on those subjects to keep a person studying forever.
-- Bob Proctor, co-author of "Who Do You Think You Are? Discover the Purpose of Your Life"

I want to demonstrate by my life and my results, not my talk, not my wishes, but by my results.
-- Gerry Robert, from "Who Do You Think You Are? Discover the Purpose of Your Life"

Self-esteem is a huge piece of my work. You have to believe it's possible and believe in yourself. Because after you've decided what you want, you have to believe it's possible and possible for you, not just for other people. Then you need to seek out models, mentors, and coaches.
-- Jack Canfield, Motivational speaker, co-author of "Chicken Soup for the Soul" and one of the original teachers of "The Secret"

If no one ever took risks, Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.
-- Neil Simon

The turning point, I think, was when I really realized that you can do it yourself. That you have to believe in you because sometimes that's the only person that does believe in your success but you.
-- Tim Blixseth

Wise people learn when they can. Fools learn when they must.
-- Arthur W. Wellington

If you have a positive thought your body actually goes into a positive vibration, you actually attract everything that resonates with that vibration.
-- John Assaraf, Author of "The Answer"

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
-- William J.H. Boetcker, 1873-1962, Religious Leader and Speaker

The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own.
-- Eric Hoffer, 1898-1983, Writer

Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.
-- Tom Clancy, Author

Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
-- Jay Leno, Entertainer

The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
-- Henry Ward Beecher, 1813-1887, Author

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
-- Barbara Sher, Author of "I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was"

The Universe wants to give to you. The moment you begin to change your vibration to one of abundance, it will start sending you people, situations, and opportunities that reflect your inner state.
-- Peggy McColl, Author of "21 Distinctions of Wealth"

Defeat is a state of mind. No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality. To me, defeat in anything is merely temporary, and its punishment is but an urge for me to greater effort to achieve my goal. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth.
-- Bruce Lee, 1940-1973, Martial Artist, Actor and Author

I have always grown from my problems and challenges - from the things that don't work out. That's when I've really learned.
-- Carol Burnett, Actress and Comedian

To be nobody but yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight - and never stop fighting.
-- E.E. Cummings, 1894-1962, Poet

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.
-- Debbi Fields, Founder of Mrs. Fields Cookies

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
-- Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, Scientist, Publisher and Diplomat

Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you. Most of all, other people can't stop you. Only you can stop you.
-- Jeffrey Gitomer, Author and Sales Trainer

It is your attitude, not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
-- Zig Ziglar

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
-- Sam Walton, 1918-1992, Businessman, Entrepreneur and Founder of Wal-Mart

The object of all life is development; and everything that lives have an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining.
-- Wallace Wattles, 1860-191, Author of "The Science of Getting Rich"

Immerse yourself in stories and examples of success...The first step to recession proofing your business is to recession proof your mind.
-- Chris Cardell, Leading authority on Marketing and Advanced Thinking

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
-- Epictetus, Greek Stoic Philosopher

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
-- Ralph Lauren, Salesman, Fashion Designer

Generally speaking, you will do best in that business which will use your strongest faculties - the one for which you are naturally 'best fitted'..... You will get rich most easily in terms of effort, if you do that for which you are best fitted, but you will get rich most satisfactorily if you do that which you WANT to do.
-- Wallace D Wattles, 1860-1911, Author of "The Science of Getting Rich"

A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.
-- Chin-Ning Chu, Chinese American Business Consultant and Author

Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich. The key, I think, is confidence. Confidence and an unshakable belief it can be done - and that you are the one to do it.
-- Felix Dennis, Controversial British Magazine Publisher, Poet and Philanthropist

If you want to get somewhere, you have to know where you want to go - and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
-- Norman Vincent Peale, 1898-1993, Author and proponent of the theory of "Positive Thinking"

There's an old Chinese saying that I just love, and I believe it is so true. It goes like this: "The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed".
-- Bob Parsons, Entrepreneur, Founder & CEO of The Go Daddy Group, Inc

If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.
-- Ray Kroc, 1902-1984, built the most successful fast-food chain in the world - McDonalds

When you undervalue who you are, the world will undervalue what you do.
-- Suze Orman, Financial 'Guru', Writer & TV Personality

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
-- John F.Kennedy, 1917-1963, 35th President of the United States

When we can identify a problem and face the problem with confidence and enthusiasm, the solution is on the way.
-- Zig Ziglar

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
-- Dr. Abraham Maslow, 1908-1970, commenting on the need to develop "Creative Problem Solving Skills"

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is: that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, 1813-1887, Prominent American Clergyman, Author and Abolitionist

One of the things that may get in the way of people being lifelong learners is that they're not in touch with their passion. If you're passionate about what it is you do, then you're going to be looking for everything you can to get better at it.
-- Jack Canfield, Motivational Speaker and Author.

No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.
-- Charles Kendall Adams, 1835-1902, Professor of History and Author

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal - Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude.
-- Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826, 3rd President of the United States and principal author of The Declaration of Independence (1776)

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1895, Essayist, Poet and Novelist

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finder spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget that errand.
-- Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States

I have never been a millionaire. But I have enjoyed a crackling fire, a glorious sunset, a walk with a friend and a hug from a child. There are plenty of life's tiny delights for all of us.
-- Jack Anthony, Author

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
-- Wayne Dyer, Psychotherapist, Author and Speaker

If you know what to do to reach your goal, it's not a big enough goal.
-- Bob Proctor, Author and Speaker

You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.
-- Earl Nightingale, 1921-1989, Syndicated Radio Announcer and Author

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell' em, 'certainly I can!' - and then get busy and find out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919, Twenty-Sixth U.S. President

Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.
-- Dr. Maxwell Maltz, 1899-1975, Author

The mind can't take you where your heart longs to go.
-- Debbie Ford Speaker and Author of "Why Good People Do Bad Things"

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
-- Thomas J. Watson Sr., 1874-1956, founder of International Business Machines (IBM)

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
-- Seneca, Roman Philosopher, 4BC-65AD

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
-- William Feather, 1889-1981, Writer

If you make the unconditional commitment to reach your most important goals, if the strength of your decision is sufficient, you will find the way and the power to achieve your goals.
-- Robert Conklin, Teacher, Author and Speaker

When I hear bad news I look at it as another leadership test that will determine how successful Go Daddy will become. So I no longer dread it. Instead, I enjoy the game of finding the very best way to deal with it, and take great satisfaction in having a hand in resolving the issues that come my way.
-- Bob Parsons, Outspoken Entrepreneur - President of the GoDaddy Corporation

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.
-- Robert F. Bennett

He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes, but he who never asks a question remains a fool forever.
-- Tom Connelly

Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.
-- Andre Maurois, 1885-1967, Writer

When you are clear, what you want will show up in your life, and only to the extent you are clear.
-- Janet Attwood, Author of "The Passion Test - The Effortless Path to Discovering Your Destiny"

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, Television Host, Actress and Producer

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
-- Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, British Statesman and Prime Minister

So what do we do? Anything - something. So long as we don't just sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.
-- Lee Iacocca, Former Chairman of Chrysler Corporation

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
-- Barbara DeAngelis, Author

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
-- Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, Physicist

It's the little things you do that can make a big difference. What are you attempting to accomplish? What little thing can you do today that will make you more effective? You are probably only one step away from greatness.
-- Bob Proctor, Author and Speaker

When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.
-- Catherine Ponder, Author of "Dynamic Laws of Prosperity"

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, 1813-1887, Preacher and Writer

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot, 1888-1965, Poet and Critic

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
-- William James, 1842-1910, Psychologist, Professor and Author

Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose. Everyone has bad stretches and real successes. Either way, you have to be careful not to lose your confidence or get too confident.
-- Nancy Kerrigan

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
-- Washington Irving, 1783-1859, Author

Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.
-- Jack Canfield, Speaker and Author

Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.
-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, 1749-1832, Poet, Dramatist and Novelist