Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning;

they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to

tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.

Harvey Mackay runs Mackay Envelopes, Inc., in Minneapolis,

but he is better known for his syndicated column. is the author

of the New York Times #1 bestsellers Swim With The Sharks

Without Being Eaten Alive and Beware the Naked Man Who

Offers You His Shirt.

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision
just passes time. Vision with action can change the world. A

true
leader must first see an idea as opportunity, then choose to act

upon it.

Joel Barker
(American Businessman, Consultant, Author)


To solve big problems you have to be willing to do unpopular
things.

Lee Iacocca
(1924-, American Businessman, Former CEO of Chrysler)


The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of
getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks

into small
manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.

Mark Twain
(1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer)

The past is an illusion. You must learn to live in the present
and accept yourself for what you are now. What you lack in

flexibility
and agility you must make up with knowledge and constant

practice.

Bruce Lee
(1940-1973, Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial

Artist)

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

John Enoch Powell
(1912-, British Statesman


The more you know the less you need to say.

Jim Rohn
(American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher)

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for
others are a sign of strength.

Billy Graham
(1918-, American Evangelist)


Success is 99 percent failure.

Soichiro Honda
(Japanese businessman, founder of Honda Motor Corp.)

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Stephen R. Covey
(American Speaker, Trainer, Author of "The 7 Habits of Highly

Effective
People")

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every
day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day,

something no one
else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be

always
part
of unanimity.

Christopher Morley
(1890-1957, American Novelist, Journalist, Poet)

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they

are.
I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the

world
are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they

want and if
they can't find them, make them.

George Bernard Shaw
(1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist)


Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary
people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather

what is
impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see

it as
possible.

Cherie Carter-Scott
(American Author, Speaker, Trainer)

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to
have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what

they want
so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse.

You
must first be who you really are, then, do what you need to do,

in order to
have what you want.

Margaret Young
(American Author)


My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because

they
are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you

don't make
them because they're popular; you make them because they're

right.

Theodore Hesburgh
(American Educator)



Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch
which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it

burn
as brightly as possible before handing it on to future

generations.

George Bernard Shaw
(1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist)

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.

Charles F. Kettering
(1876-1958, American Engineer, )


We shall never learn to know ourselves except by
endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness, we
realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness;
and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are
from being humble.
... Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)

The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare
to win.

Bobby Knight

The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to
make sure that as soon as you set them, you immediately

begin to create
momentum. The most important rules that I ever adopted to help

me in
achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful

man who
taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave

the
site of setting a goal without first taking some form of positive

action
toward
its attainment.

Anthony Robbins
(1960-, American Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert)

"Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of

change."

-- Brian Tracy

If you do not value yourself independently of your achievements,

you will not value your achievements.

Gillian Butler, PhD and Tony Hope, MD. Gillian Butler is a

clinical psychologist. Tony Hope is a psychiatrist


"One is successful just in the sincere attempt to become
successful."


"You cannot climb a mountain if you will not risk a fall."


"Fear is the cancer of the human spirit."


"The greatest heroic feats in history cannot hold a candle to
the courage it takes to raise a child."


"If I die tonight in my sleep:
let me have hugged and told my children that I love them,
let me have told my mother how much she is loved and

appreciated,
let me have helped a friend or better, a stranger,
let me have worked very hard these past hours in the name of

my
personal progress, and, let me have gone to sleep with the
knowledge that I did the very best I could do today."


"Give a shelterless man tools and he will build a home.
Inspire him, encourage him, give him vision, and he will build
an empire."


"Life is a Gift, not a Prize."


"There's no more nobler mission than positively impacting

people
in their lives."


"You'll never go wrong doing anything for the right reason."


"Loss creates a vacuum into which something greater always

flows."


"What you Think is what you Get."