I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism. (Charles M. Schwab)

Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth! (George W. Crane)

Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge. (Source Unknown)

I don’t have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. It’s what you do with it that counts. (Martin Ritt)

I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn’t play in the NBA. There’s always somebody saying you can’t do it and those people have to be ignored. (Bill Cartwright)

I couldn't motivate a bee to sting you if it didn't have the equipment. I couldn't motivate a snake to bite you if it didn't have the teeth. You can only bring out of people what they are capable of giving. Two of the great myths circulating now are that Heinz beans are the best and that I can get out of men more than they have inside them. (Brian Clough, football manager)

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after. (Henry Longfellow 1819 - 92)

Keep away from the 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. (Mark Twain 1835 - 1910)

I praise loudly; I blame softly. (Catherine the Great 1729 - 96)

Good leadership consists in motivation people to their highest levels by offering them opportunities, not obligations. (John Heider)


For every criticism you make of someone’s job performance, make sure you give the person four compliments.
(Thich Hahn)

Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted. (Albert Einstein)

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare, but they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still. (E. W. Faber)

There are two things people want more than sex and money – recognition and praise. (Mary Kay Ash)

Question: do you reward how long an employee sits in the saddle, or how far he or she rode the horse? Sometimes management seems to reward those who put in long hours at work without looking at the results they accomplish. (Source Unknown)

It is hard to sell a product you do not use and a religion you do not live.

Trim your lamp often so that it will give more light and less smoke.

You can’t pray on your knees on Sunday and prey on your friends the rest of the week.

It is inconsistent to say you believe as you should when you behave as you shouldn’t.

You cannot touch your neighbor’s heart with anything less than your own.

Self-control is the best of all vows. Sweetness of speech, benevolence, absence of malice, anger and hatred, forgiveness, patience, forbearance, non-violence, modesty, courtesy, good behaviour, truth, straightforwardness, and firmness: the combination of all these constitutes self-control. (Sivananda)

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks on great and honourable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself. (Cicero 106 - 43 BC)

Demand not that events should happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well. (Epictetus 50 - 138)

Search others for their virtues, and thyself for thy vices. (Thomas Fuller 1608 - 61)

It's a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. (Somerset Maugham 1874 - 1965)

If a man makes himself a worm, he must not complain when he gets trodden on. (Immanuel Kant 1724 - 1804)

It is often found that modesty and humility not only do no good, but are positively hurtful, when they are shown to the arrogant who have taken up a prejudice against you either from envy or from any other cause. (Niccolo Machiavelli 1469 - 1527)

Anyone can become angry, that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not easy. (Aristotle 384 - 322 BC)

A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you. (Ramsey Clark)

"People take your example far more seriously than your advice. -Croft M. Pentz

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"He who is born of God is certain to resemble his Father. -Croft M. Pentz

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The most valuable gift you can give to others is example.-Croft M. Pentz

If you don’t live it, you don’t have it.-Croft M. Pentz

What one does is the result of what one is.-Croft M. Pentz

The world is more interested in what you practice than in what you profess.-Croft M. Pentz

Learning the golden rule is of no value until you practice it.-Croft M. Pentz

Whatever makes men good Christians makes them good citizens.-Croft M. Pentz

My life helps to paint my neighbor’s picture of God.-Croft M. Pentz

The world is looking for good examples—not advice.-Croft M. Pentz

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to another. -Croft M. Pentz

Everyone wants to be noticed; no one wants to be watched. -Croft M. Pentz

You can fake the gifts of the Spirit, but you cannot fake the fruit of the Spirit. -Croft M. Pentz

You win more friends with your ears than with your mouth. -Croft M. Pentz

Accept God’s grace through faith, then prove His grace through works. -Croft M. Pentz

To say little and perform much is the characteristic of a great mind. -Croft M. Pentz

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience. -Croft M. Pentz

The beauty of any day is reflected in your heart. -Croft M. Pentz

A person worth following is a follower of Christ. -Croft M. Pentz

To show others what Christ will do for them, show them what Christ has done for you. -Croft M. Pentz

Only by giving are you able to receive more than you already have. - Jim Rohn

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process. - Jim Rohn

When somebody shares, everybody wins. - Jim Rohn

Nothing teaches character better than generosity. - Jim Rohn

The amount you give isn’t important. What matters is what that amount represents in terms of your life. - Jim Rohn

It’s best to start the discipline of generosity when the amounts are small. It’s easy to give ten cents out of a dollar; it’s a little harder to give a hundred thousand out of a million. - Jim Rohn

Here’s what is exciting about sharing ideas with others: If you share a new idea with ten people, they get to hear it once and you get to hear it ten times. - Jim Rohn

Sharing makes you bigger than you are. The more you pour out, the more life will be able to pour in. - Jim Rohn

Somebody says, “Well, I can’t be concerned about other people. About the best I can do is to take care of myself.” Well, then you will always be poor. - Jim Rohn

What you give becomes an investment that will return to you multiplied at some point in the future. - Jim Rohn

" ""If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they may have planned for you? Not much."" —Jim Rohn
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You hear a good many echoes in the world but mighty few real voices. -Croft M. Pentz

Some people spend money for things they don’t need to impress people they don’t like. -Croft M. Pentz

A pint of example is worth a thousand sermons. -Croft M. Pentz

What’s wrong with the church?  Look in the mirror. -Croft M. Pentz

Anyone who talks by the yard and thinks by the inch should be moved by the foot. -Croft M. Pentz

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

"""It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony in a court of law. Honesty is a vital part of having a good reputation."" —Jim Rohn
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“A person will not buy from you until he is convinced that you are a friend and are acting in his best interest. You must make this clear.” —Brian Tracy

“Being miserable is a habit; being happy is a habit; and the choice is yours.” —Tom Hopkins

“Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.” —Harvey Mackay

“Nothing needs reforming so much as other people’s habits.” —Mark Twain

“The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.” —Brian Tracy

“The secret to momentum in life can be found in the word ‘momentum.’ You create it moment by moment.” —Doug Firebaugh

“The truth is you don’t break a bad habit, you replace it with a good one.” —Denis Waitley

“When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven’t developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges
that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habits and don’t know how to eliminate them effectively.” —W. Clement Stone

Blessed are they who attend strictly to their own business.- Zig Ziglar

So live that when people get to know you, they will want to know Christ. - Zig Ziglar
The beauty of life is that everything has beauty. Mistakes leave us with lessons.

Fears teach courage. We appreciate the good when we've been through the bad. We grow as we struggle.

We cannot all be apostles; but we can all be living epistles.- Zig Ziglar

Where we go and what we do advertises what we are.- Zig Ziglar

You cannot become a saint by comparing yourself with a sinner.- Zig Ziglar

A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success. (Source Unknown)

"Get in, get into the place that's your nature, whether it's running a corporation or picking daisies in a field. Get in there and live to it, live to the fullness of it. Become what you are and I'll say to you: You've done more than most men. Most men don't ever do that. They'll work at a job and not
know why. They'll marry a woman and not know why. They'll go to their graves and not know why. (E.L.Doctorow)"

Talent never asks: Will they like it?" Talent pleases itself. That's the difference between talent and ordinary." (Larry King)

There are four different kinds of bones in an organisation: wish-bones, who wish someone else would do it; jaw-bones, who talk a lot but do very little; knuckle-bones, who knock what everyone else does; and backbones, who do the work. (William Wilkerson)

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. (Henry Kaiser 1882 - 1967)

Coaching is unlocking a person’s potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them. (John Whitmore)

If you commit yourself to performing one 10-minute act of exceptional customer courtesy per day and induce your colleagues in a 100-person company to do likewise, that means 24,000 new courteous acts a year. Such is the stuff of revolutions! (Tom Peters)

Most people are not really conceited, but feel a certain amount of inferiority and tend to get a little discouraged with themselves, therefore encouragement is a very important thing! I do it all the time! I praise everybody for everything they do that I see is good. (David Brandt Berg)

No one can predict to what heights you can soar. Even you will not know until you spread your wings. (Source Unknown)

Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful, just as one is more angry for being told one is angry. (Katherine F. Gerould)

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation. (Saskya Pandita 1182 - 1251)

I’m not a great motivator. I just get rid of guys who can’t motivate themselves. (Lou Holtz)

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. (Goethe)

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one. (John Wooden)

Don’t wait for someone to take you under their wing. Find a good wing and climb up under it. (Frank C. Bucaro)

It’s a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test. (Elbert Hubbard)

Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top-ups. (Peter Davies)

The majority of men are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, terribly objective sometimes, but the real task is in fact to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others. (Soren Kierkegaard 1813 - 55)

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. (Henry Longfellow 1819 - 92)

Don't pretend to be what you don't intend to be. - C. Pentz

Etiquette is a little better than what is absolutely necessary. - C. Pentz
Let your testimony be written in large enough letters that the world can always read it. - C. Pentz

Make sure that what you're living for is truly worth dying for. - C. Pentz

One proof of your love for God is your love for your neighbor. - C. Pentz

Evaluation of performance, merit rating or annual review nourishes short-term performance, annihilates long-term planning, builds fear, demolishes teamwork, nourishes rivalry and politics. It leaves people bitter, crushed, bruised, battered, desolate, despondent, dejected, feeling inferior, some even depressed, unable to comprehend why they are inferior. (W.Edwards Deming 1900 - 93)

Everyone needs to know what is expected of them. Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they are not; it helps them to keep trying. (Merry Browne)

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. (Frank Lloyd Wright)

Over the long run, superior performance depends on superior learning. (Peter Senge)

The golfer who doesn’t count his shots is only there for the walk. (Source Unknown)

Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it. Charles Swindoll (1934-, American pastor, author)

If you want to find out about the road ahead, then ask about it from those coming back. Chinese Proverb

If you have much, give of your wealth; If you have little, give of your heart. Arab Proverb

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat. Malcolm S. Forbes (1919-1990, American publisher, businessman)

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others. Devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. -- Mitch Albom
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What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. Albert Pike (1809-1891, American journalist, lawyer, and soldier)"

"If you want your children to have a peaceful life, let them suffer a little hunger and a little coldness. - Chinese Proverb
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Focus always precedes success. - DENNIS WAITLEY

If you don’t know where you’re going, it doesn’t matter if your alarm doesn’t go off in the morning. - DENNIS WAITLEY

If you go to your place of business to see what happens, you’ll put out fires but make little progress toward your goals. - DENNIS WAITLEY

Purpose is the engine that powers our lives. - DENNIS WAITLEY

There is a gold mine, in your goal mind! - DENNIS WAITLEY

What you get is what you set! - DENNIS WAITLEY

Your mind is the most marvelous bio-computer ever created. It does not deal with vague ideas; it is activated by specifics. - DENNIS WAITLEY

“Don’t become a victim of yourself. Forget about the thief waiting in the alley; what about the thief in your mind?” - JIM ROHN

“It is not what happens that determines the major part of your future. What happens, happens to us all. It is what you do about what happens that counts.”- JIM ROHN

“Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders. Abraham Lincoln once said, ‘Since I will be no one’s slave, I will be no one’s master.’”- JIM ROHN
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“Walk away from the 97% crowd. Don’t use their excuses. Take charge of your own life.”- JIM ROHN
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“You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. You don’t have charge of the constellations, but you do have charge of whether you read, develop new skills, and take new classes.”- JIM ROHN
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“You say, ‘The country is messed up.’ That’s like cursing the soil and the seed and the sunshine and the rain, which is all you’ve got. Don’t curse all you’ve got. When you get your own planet, you can rearrange this whole deal. This one you’ve got to take like it comes.”- JIM ROHN


“Your paycheck is not your employer’s responsibility; it’s your responsibility. Your employer has no control over your value, but you do.”- JIM ROHN

A pessimist is one who expects nothing on a silver platter except tarnish. -Zig Ziglar

Believe your beliefs; doubt your doubts.-Zig Ziglar

The pessimist is the one who is always looking through the wrong end of the telescope.-Zig Ziglar

Two pessimists met at a party. Instead of shaking hands, they shook heads.-Zig Ziglar

When you say, “I can’t,” you are saying, “God can’t.”-Zig Ziglar

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man. - Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965, Austrian-born American law teacher, judge)

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power. Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881, British Prime Minister )

"Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get." Ray Croc (Mc Donalds Founder)

"I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know"

"Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration."

Man was designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness. Zig Ziglar

The best dreams happen with your eyes wide open.

The pessimist sees only the mist.

What's a genius? Someone who aims at something no one else can see and hits it.

Why grieve because all your dreams have not come true? Neither have all your nightmares.

You cannot have good ideas until you have a lot of dreams.

"An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching."

If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he does not know how wide it is, he will jump, and six times out of ten he will
make it. Persian Proverb

"Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight
years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept
in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

- Anthony Robbins (1960-, American author, speaker, peak performance expert)"

If you must begin, then go all the way, because if you begin and quit, the unfinished business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time.
Chogyam Trungpa

You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life. James G. Bilkey

Without consistency there is no moral strength. Author Unknown

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself. William Penn (1644-1718, British religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania )

Chance favors only the prepared mind. Louis Pasteur (1822-1895, French scientist who developed pasteurization)

"If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he does not know how wide it is, he will jump, and six times out of ten he will
make it. Persian Proverb

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Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)

It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well. Joseph Ross

How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking. David J. Schwartz (American trainer, author of "The
Magic of Thinking Big"

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means. William Hazlitt (1778-1830, British essayist)

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Chance favors only the prepared mind. Louis Pasteur (1822-1895, French scientist who developed pasteurization) "

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All of the significant battles are waged within the self. Sheldon Kopp (1929-, American psychologist) "

I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative. Giovani della Casa (1503-1556, Papal secretary of state)

"You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences. W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965, British novelist, playwright )

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One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through
life, never deciding to master anything in particular. Anthony Robbins (1960-, American author, speaker, peak performance expert, coach)



If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it
must be known, that we are at all times ready for War. - George Washington

It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.-George Washington

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.-George Washington

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.-George Washington

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God. -George Washington

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national
morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. -George Washington

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government. -George Washington

NO ARSENAL, NO WEAPON IN THE ARSENALS OF THE WORLD, IS SO FORMIDABLE AS THE WILL AND MORAL COURAGE OF FREE MEN AND WOMEN." - - Ronald Reagan

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over
another. -George Washington

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.- George Washington

The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people,it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government." Patrick
Henry

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace. -George Washington

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.-George
Washington

WHEN THE PEOPLE FEAR THEIR GOVERNMENT THERE IS TYRANNY, WHEN THE GOVERNMENT FEARS THE PEOPLE, THERE IS LIBERTY !" - - THOMAS JEFFERSON

WHENSOEVER THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT ASSUMES UN-DELEGATED POWERS, ITS ACTS ARE UN-AUTHORITATIVE, VOID, AND OF NO FORCE. - - Thomas Jefferson

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. - Thomas Jefferson

“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the
assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence
than an armed man.” (Quoting Cesare Beccaria)-Thomas Jefferson

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.-Thomas
Jefferson

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.-Thomas Jefferson

A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.- Thomas Jefferson

A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of
labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of
industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.- Thomas Jefferson

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. Thomas Jefferson

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. Thomas Jefferson

An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.- Thomas Jefferson

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes. - Thomas Jefferson

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also. - Thomas Jefferson

Be polite to all, but intimate with few. - Thomas Jefferson

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. - Thomas Jefferson

Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto. - Thomas Jefferson

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government. -Thomas Jefferson

Delay is preferable to error. -Thomas Jefferson

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are
always doing. -Thomas Jefferson

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.-Thomas Jefferson

Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.-Thomas Jefferson

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.-Thomas Jefferson

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.-Thomas Jefferson

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.-Thomas Jefferson

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. -Thomas Jefferson

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.-Thomas Jefferson

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
-Thomas Jefferson

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into
tyranny. -Thomas Jefferson

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.-Thomas Jefferson

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be
discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner
of death to the public liberty.... And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the
spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century
or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.-Thomas Jefferson

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.-Thomas Jefferson

History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.- Thomas Jefferson

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.-Thomas Jefferson

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too. -Thomas
Jefferson

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.-Thomas Jefferson

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. -Thomas Jefferson

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. -Thomas Jefferson

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be. -Thomas Jefferson

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their
control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion. -Thomas Jefferson

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.-Thomas Jefferson

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.- Thomas Jefferson

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of
them.-Thomas Jefferson

I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. (Back then!)-Thomas
Jefferson

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.-Thomas Jefferson

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.- Thomas Jefferson

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.-Thomas Jefferson

I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.- Thomas Jefferson

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. -Thomas Jefferson

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is
to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?-Thomas Jefferson

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.- Thomas Jefferson

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

It is better to tolerate that rare instance of a parent’s refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the common feelings by a forcible
transportation and education of the infant against the will of his father.- Thomas Jefferson

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.-Thomas Jefferson

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.-Thomas Jefferson

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.-Thomas
Jefferson

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be
on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.-Thomas Jefferson

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.-Thomas Jefferson

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than
learning.-Thomas Jefferson

Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.-Thomas Jefferson

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.-Thomas Jefferson

Most bad government has grown out of too much government.- Thomas Jefferson

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. -Thomas Jefferson

Never spend your money before you have earned it. -Thomas Jefferson

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.-Thomas Jefferson

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important. -Thomas Jefferson

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

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. -Thomas Jefferson

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them. -Thomas Jefferson

One man with courage is a majority. -Thomas Jefferson

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more. -Thomas Jefferson

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail. -Thomas Jefferson

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then
corruption, its necessary consequence.-Thomas Jefferson

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health,
occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.-Thomas Jefferson

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain
uninterrupted.-Thomas Jefferson

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it. -Thomas Jefferson

Power is not alluring to pure minds.-Thomas Jefferson

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of
the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.-Thomas Jefferson

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful
to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.- Thomas Jefferson

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?- Thomas Jefferson

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.-Thomas Jefferson

Taste cannot be controlled by law.-Thomas Jefferson

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part. -Thomas Jefferson

The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper. -Thomas Jefferson

The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.-Thomas Jefferson

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave. -Thomas Jefferson

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. -Thomas Jefferson

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.-Thomas
Jefferson

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.- Thomas Jefferson

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.-Thomas Jefferson

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.-Thomas Jefferson

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.-Thomas Jefferson

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty
gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.-Thomas Jefferson

The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of
society.-Thomas Jefferson

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.-Thomas Jefferson

The man who reads nothing at all is better than the educated man who reads nothing but newspapers.- Thomas Jefferson

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.-Thomas Jefferson

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.-Thomas Jefferson

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.- Thomas Jefferson

The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.-Thomas Jefferson

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.-Thomas Jefferson

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but
better so than not to be exercised at all.-Thomas Jefferson

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.-Thomas Jefferson

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in
government.-Thomas Jefferson

The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become
the legalized version of the first.- Thomas Jefferson

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.-Thomas Jefferson

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.- Thomas Jefferson

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.-Thomas Jefferson

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.-Thomas Jefferson

To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose
fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association—the guarantee to every one of a free
exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.-Thomas Jefferson

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.-Thomas Jefferson

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.-Thomas Jefferson

Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.-Thomas Jefferson

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among
these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.-Thomas Jefferson

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding
generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.-Thomas Jefferson

We never repent of having eaten too little.-Thomas Jefferson

Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.-Thomas Jefferson

What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?-Thomas Jefferson

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.-Thomas Jefferson

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.-Thomas Jefferson

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.-Thomas Jefferson

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.-Thomas Jefferson

When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.-Thomas Jefferson

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.-Thomas Jefferson

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.- Thomas Jefferson

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.-Thomas Jefferson

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.-Thomas Jefferson

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.-Thomas Jefferson

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. "

“A person in authority is not necessarily a saint, an artist, a philosopher or a hero, but he respects truth, appreciates what is beautiful, knows how to
behave himself and is courageous in meeting his obligations.” —Earl Nightingale

“Always demanding the best of oneself, living with honor, devoting one’s talents and gifts to the benefits of others—these are the measures of success that
endure when material things have passed away.” —Gerald Ford

“Average people look for ways of getting away with it; successful people look for ways of getting on with it.” —Jim Rohn

“Leaders know one thing… if they have no one following… it’s gonna be a long walk.” —Doug Firebaugh

“Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.” —Brian Tracy

“Leadership is not a right—it’s a responsibility.” —John Maxwell

“Managers help people to see themselves as they are. Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are.” —Jim Rohn

“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

“Success is not a pie with a limited number of pieces. The success of others has very little bearing on your success. You and everyone you know can become
successful without anyone suffering setbacks, harm, or downturns.” —Denis Waitley

“Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.” —Zig Ziglar

“Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What's in it for me?’” —Brian Tracy

“Those who will lead in this life must start against the crowd and lead forcefully until the crowd sees the results and changes their direction.” —Chris
Widener

“When you identify something that you do well, that you enjoy doing, and that supports the values that are important to you, you have defined success in your
terms.” —Nido Qubein

“You don’t become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems.” —Mark Victor Hansen

Intelligence is like a river—the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Knowledge humbles great men, astonishes the common man, and puffs up the little man.

Knowledge is power only when it is turned on.

Knowledge is power, and so is dynamite. Both are dangerous unless handled wisely.

You can always tell a well-informed man—his ideas are the same as yours.

A man who cannot tolerate small misfortunes can never accomplish great things. - Chinese Proverb

If you're looking for perfection, look in the mirror. If you find it there, expect it elsewhere. Malcolm S. Forbes (1919-1990, American publisher,
businessman)

If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865, American President (16th)

Tomorrow's battle is won during today's practice. - Japanese Proverb

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""Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something, then you have the time to do something about it."" -- Anthony D'Angelo"

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes. - Chinese Proverb

"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd." —James Crook

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right. - Hannah Whitall Smith

You create your opportunities by asking for them. - Patty Hansen(American Author)
Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records. William A. Ward

Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do. - Albert Gray

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

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. - Dale Carnegie (1888-1955, American Author, Trainer)

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true. - Woodrow T. Wilson (1856-1924, Twenty-eighth President of the USA)

If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference. - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA)


There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction. John F. Kennedy
(1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA)


He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. Muhammad Ali (1942-, American Boxer)


Success is 99 percent failure. Soichiro Honda (Japanese businessman, founder of Honda Motor Corp.)


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)

Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying. - Frank Burford
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 (1910-, American Basketball Coach)

If you got the guts to stick it out, you are going to make it. - Brian Hays

You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for... unless it's contagious! Franklyn Broude

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. Maureen Dowd (American Newspaper Columnist)

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind. Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519, Italian Inventor, Architect, Painter, Scientist, Sculptor)


It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. Albert Einstein (1879-1955, German-born American Physicist)

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves. William A. Ward

Don't take the casual approach to life. Casualness leads to casualties. Jim Rohn
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear. -- Harvey Mackay

I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention. -- Diane Sawyer


Be a great listener. Ask questions and listen intently to the answers. -- Brian Tracy


We should quietly hear both sides. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Make the most of every opportunity to train, teach and improve your players and team.

Practice under pressure situations and you will perform well when it truly counts.

Never panic. Face adversity with confidence knowing you have prepared.

You have to plan and prepare to guard against distractions.

Physical conditioning in the spring always becomes a determining factor at some point during the fall season.

I know what it feels like to be booed by 80,000 and have a standing ovation by the same 80,000 in the same day. So that is a situation I think the Lord put me in at that part of my life because He knew I was going to be a coach.
He knew I needed that grooming.


There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. -- Albert Einstein

The next time it begins to rain... lie down on your belly, nestle your chin into the grass, and get a frog's-eye view of how raindrops fall... The sight of hundreds of blades of grass bowing down and popping back up like piano keys strikes me as one of the merriest sights in the world. -- Malcolm Margolin


When we accept tough jobs as a challenge and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen. -- Arland Gilbert

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is - a miracle and unrepeatable. -- Margaret Storm Jameson

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness. -- Percival

Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles. -- Bob Richards

Nothing will work unless you do. - Maya Angelou

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it,
change your attitude. - Maya Angelou

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. Aesop (620-560 BC, Greek Fabulist)

Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool. Og Mandino (1923-1996, American Motivational Author, Speaker)

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial. - H. Ross Perot (1930-, American Businessman & Politician)

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)

It doesn't take a lot to make me happy. I like to work out. I like to play ball. I like to spend time with my friends. I like to make myself better every day. I like to try to learn. It doesn't take money to do that. - Steve Nash

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. - William James (1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author)

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)

Enthusiasm, like measles, mumps and the common cold, is highly contagious. - Emory Ward

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality. - Les Brown (1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer)

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Albert Einstein 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist)

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence. Colin Powell (1937-, American Army General)

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy. Malcomb S. Forbes
(1919-1990, American Publisher, Businessman)

If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a tiny one, but trust that it may be the largest one possible for now. Mildred Mcafee

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. Charles F. Kettering (1876-1958, American Engineer, Inventor)


One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer, another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want.- Proverbs 11:24

Anyone can cut an apple open and count the number of seeds. But, who can look at a single seed and count the trees and apples? Dottie Walters (American Entrepreneur, Speaker, Author)

Nothing of great value in life comes easily. The things of highest value sometimes come hard. The gold that has the greatest value lies deepest in the earth, as do the diamonds. Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993, American Christian Reformed Pastor, Speaker, Author)

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing. - John Andrew Holmes

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals. - Larry Bird (American Basketball Player, Coach)

If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the
house. If there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world. - Chinese Proverb

We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them. - Seneca
(BC 3-65 AD, Roman Philosopher, Dramatist, Statesman)

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 (1925-, British Stateswoman, Prime Minister (1979-90))

Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice. Stephen R. Covey (American Speaker, Trainer, Author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People)

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things. - Source Unknown

Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. -- Abigail Adams

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. Indira Gandhi

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.


As you think, so shall you become.


Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into. Brian Tracy

I love the man who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grows brave by reaction. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. Thomas Paine (1737-1809, Anglo-American Political Theorist, Writer
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. Milton Berle

Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. Stephen Covey

Pa, he always said a man had to look spry for himself, because nobody else would do it for him; your opportunities didn't come knocking around, you had to hunt them up and hog-tie them. Louis L'Amour

There is a millionaire inside of you...you decide who wins. -- Doug Firebaugh
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose — somehow we win out. -- Ronald Reagan

People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be. -- Harvey Mackay
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents. -- Eric Hoffer

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart. -- Robertson Davies

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. -- Napoleon Hill

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain. -- Khalil Gibran

DETERMINATION

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. -- Og Mandino

When someone tells me there is only one way to do things, it always lights a fire under my butt. My instant reaction is, I'm going to prove you wrong! -- Picabo Street
In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer. -- Albert Camus

If you have an important point to make, don´t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time a tremendous whack. -- Winston Churchill
There is no security in life, only opportunity. Denis Waitley


Out of clutter, find Simplicity. From discord, find Harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies Opportunity. Albert Einstein

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Napoleon Hill

The only competition you will ever have is the competition between your disciplined and undisciplined mind. -- James A. Ray

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. -- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. -- Stephen King

When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish-it is then that you must not hesitate. -- Dag Hammarskjold

Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference. -- Mark Victor Hansen

Stop rationalizing, stop stewing. Get up out of your chair and start doing. -- Denis Waitley


It's a strange thing, you have said it thousands of times I am sure… you will never know what you can do until you try. However the sad truth is, that most people never try anything until they know they can do it. -- Bob Proctor
For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been'. -- John Greenleaf Whittier

Get excited and enthusiastic about your own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire – you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away. -- Denis Waitley

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by obvious realities. We need men and women who can dream of things that never were... -- John F. Kennedy

Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come. Og Mandino

I've missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 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. Michael Jordan
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow. Harvey Mackay

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious
dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it be, without wishing for what he has not. --- Seneca
(4 B.C. - 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher)


To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. Elbert Hubbard (1859-1915, American Author, Publisher)

If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal. -- Zig Ziglar

Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life. -- Christiane Northrup

Develop an 'attitude of gratitude.' Say think you to everyone you meet for everything they do for you. -- Brian Tracy

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. -- Albert Schweitzer


Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. -- Melody Beattie

But as I look back at my life, it is easy to see that the times when my wisdom and understanding grew to new levels; those times when I approached becoming the person I long to e; it was always the times that followed negative circumstances. -- Vic Johnson

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely. -- Karen Kaiser Clark


Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

God remembers what we forget, and we remember, unfortunately, what God forgets.


It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failings than to point out those of others.


The three things we need to be dead to: to be dead in Christ, to be dead to sin, and to be dead to what people think.


You cannot pour deep spirituality into a shallow life.

You deny Christ when you fail to deny yourself.

The more you express gratitude for what you have the more you will have to express gratitude for. Zig Ziglar


God doesn't ask you to be the best only to do your best.

Good gardening is largely a matter of taking pains mostly in the small of the back.
Learn to harness your handicaps.

There is more to be gained by being first than fast.

There is no defeat except in no longer trying.

To respond is positive, to react is negative. Zig Ziglar

Accept the circumstances, then seek to overcome them.

The best time to hold on is when you reach the place where the average person gives up.

The man who is not strong against anything is usually not strong for anything.

The shadows are behind you if you walk toward the light.

Today is not won by old victories nor lost by old defeats.

When a company or an individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the corner. - Zig Ziglar

Most people who fail in their dreams fail not from lack of ability but from lack of commitment. -Zig Ziglar

Discouragement is faith in the devil.

Don't be content by being average. Being average means you are as near to the bottom as you are to the top.

If the door to success is marked pull and still won't open, ignore the sign and push.

In most cases, IQ is less important to a person's education than I will.

The wise man doesn't expect to find life worth living; he makes it that way.

Discipline yourself to do the things you need to do when you need to do them, and the day will come when you will be able to do the things you want to do when you want to do them! - Zig Ziglar

Dieting is the triumph of mind over platter.

It is all right to spend money to make character; it is wrong to spend character to make money.


No man's character is better than his word.

Reputation is what people say about you on your tombstone. Character is what God has written about you in His Book.

What you are when you are not trying to be anything is the supreme test of what you really are.

You can no more blame circumstances for your character than the mirror for your appearance.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things that he can afford to let alone.
If you take your problems to the Lord, that is natural. If you give your problems to the Lord, that is spiritual.

Problems cause some to break while others use them to break records.

There is very little blessing or reward in serving the Lord conveniently.
When you're all wrong and willing to admit it, you're all right.

The best thing a parent can do for a child is to love his or her spouse. Zig Ziglar

Many people aim to do right but are just poor shots.

People who live it up may someday have to live it down.

Salvation is free, but discipleship is costly.

The person who never changes his mind never improves his mistakes either.

The road to success is always under construction.

It will cost you more to say no to God than to say yes.

Learn from the mistakes of others-you'll never live long enough to make them all yourself.

Once it was the fashion to take a bath weekly and religion daily.

To have God's smile will mean the frown of man.

When the going gets easy, you'd better check and see if you are going downhill.

We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.





If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.
Chinese Proverb




Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn. John Wesley (1703-1791, British Preacher, Founder of Methodism)

If you're still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today.
Joyce Chapman (American Author)

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur. Vince Lombardi


You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take. Wayne Gretzky (1961-, Canadian Hockey Player)

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses. Napoleon Hill(1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Author, Think and Grow Rich)


The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts. Booker T. Washington
(1856-1915, American Black Leader and Educator)

Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. Winston Churchill
Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them. (Lou Holtz) -
so just them to Jesus for He cares for you (added by Feb)


The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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. Charlie Tremendous Jones

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments. Gustave Flaubert

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 K. Adams

When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim -- improve yourself. Gilbert Arland

I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973, Spanish Artist)

The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them. Lao-Tzu (BC 600-?, Chinese Philosopher, Founder of Taoism, Author of the Tao Te Ching


EARN as much as you can. SAVE as much as you can. INVEST as much as you can. GIVE as much as you can.
Rev. John Wellesly (American Minister)


When you want to encourage a greater sense of responsibility in others (and yourself), emphasize the anticipation of accomplishment, not the penalties for failure. Roger Crawford (American Resiliency Expert, Speaker, Author)

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. Eric Hoffer (1902-1983,American Author, Philosopher)

The greatest problem you have is your greatest opportunity. Michael Wickett American Motivational Speaker, Sales Trainer)


Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough. Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA)

All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners... Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing... not moving toward excellence.
Denis Waitley (1933-, American Author, Speaker, Trainer, Peak Performance Expert)


Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. Peter F. Drucker (1909-, American Management Consultant, Author)


Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. John Quincy Adams (1767-1848, Sixth President of the USA)


The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens. Arnold Schwarzenegger


I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me. Charles Swindoll

Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe. Winston Churchill (1874-1965, British statesman, Prime Minister)

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated and disciplined. Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969, American minister)

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles. Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969, American minister)

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down. Mary Pickford (1893-1979, Canadian-born American Actress)

"Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing." - T. Jefferson

"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Each player must accept the cards life deals him. But once they are in hand, he alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.”--Voltaire

"Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come."--Robert Louis Stevenson

"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones. When you have finished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."--Victor Hugo

"It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear. Never load yourselves so, my friends. If you find yourselves so loaded, at least remember this: it is your own doing, not God's. He begs you to leave the future to Him, and mind the present."--George MacDonald

"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away."

"The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work."

"First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends: wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end."


"Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed."

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit."

"I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." Benjamin Franklin

A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction. Benjamin Spock (1903-, American Pediatrician)

"Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourself a difficult task, but youwill succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles." - Helen Keller

"I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done." - Henry Ford

"He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty. "

"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."

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

“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.” - Les Brown

“Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. ‘Nothing’ is the worst thing that can happen to us.” - Les Brown

"Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way."

"The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work."

"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work."
"Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success."

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964)

"without purpose time has no meaning, efforts have no reason, and life has no precision" - Myles Munroe.

"Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard."

One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission. Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881, British Statesman)
There’s no substitute for guts. Paul "Bear" Bryant (1913-1983, American Football Coach)

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out. Thomas B. Macaulay (1800-1859, American Essayist and Historian)

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and perceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and last some crisis shows what we have become. Brooke Foss Westcott

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time. Charles F. Kettering (1876-1958, American Engineer, Inventor)

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. Chinese Proverb

All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose. Brian Tracy (American Trainer, Speaker, Author, Businessman)

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519, Italian Inventor, Architect, Painter, Scientist, Sculptor)

Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life. Ann Landers (1918-, American Advice Columnist)

Don't be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It's the horse that finishes a neck ahead wins the race. Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919, American Industrialist, Philanthropist)

I believe that if you think about disaster you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience. Edward Vernon Rickenbacker (1890-1973, American Aviator, World War I Ace)

Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward with the life that God intended for you. Og Mandino (1923-1996, American motivational author, speaker)

If you want to find out about the road ahead, then ask about it from those coming back. Chinese Proverb

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919, American President (26th))

You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones. Dale Earnhardt (1952-, American race car driver)

Don't complain because you don't have. Enjoy what you've got. H. Stanley Judd, (American author)

He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule. Filipino Proverb

If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865, 16th President of the USA)

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. Martin Luther King (1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964)

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. Maureen Dowd (American Newspaper Columnist)

There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes! But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people. - Jan Ashford

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Winston Churchill(1874-1965, British Prime Minister)

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind. Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519, Italian Inventor, Architect, Painter, Scientist, Sculptor)

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny. Carl Schurz (1829-1906, German-born American Senator)

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves. Dale Carnegie (1888-1955, American Author, Trainer )

Your talent is God's gift to you; what you do with it is your gift to God. Leo Buscaglia (American Expert on Love, Lecturer, Author)

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on! Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA)

"He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions."
Those who want to succeed will find a way, those who don`t will find an excuse! Leo Aguila

There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in adetermined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do. Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine)

Whatever does not destroy me makes me stronger. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900, German Philosopher)

"Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well." Louisa May Alcott

"Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the LORD for it." Louisa May Alcott
"Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion."

"Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men." - Martha Graham teacher & choreographer of modern dance

"Fascination is one step beyond interest. Interested people want to know if it works. Fascinated people want to learn how it works." Jim Rohn

"Be curious always, for knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it." Sudie Back
"Cardiovascular problems alone in America create over a thousand funerals a day… and 90% of the problem is neglect." -- Jim Rohn

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

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure. Lao-Tzu

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion. William C. Bryant (1794-1878, American Poet, Newspaper Editor)

Luck marches with those who give their very best. H. Jackson Brown Jr. (American Author of "Life's Little Instruction Book" Series)

"The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation."

The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win. Bobby Knight (1940-, American Basketball Coach)

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. John Enoch Powell (1912-, British Statesman)

"You're going to be interacting with checkout clerks, car rental agents, and dry cleaner staff anyway, so why not make each of those few interaction minutes delightful? It costs nothing to smile, make eye contact, and offer a sincere compliment. The payoff is that you'll feel better for those minutes, as will the person you're briefly connected with. It's all a matter of your choice." -- George Walther


No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated and disciplined. - Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969, American minister)

He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule. Filipino Proverb

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated and disciplined. - Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969, American minister)

Give God what's right -- not what's left.

We don't change God's message -- His message changes us.

The church is prayer-conditioned.

When God ordains, He sustains.

WARNING: Exposure to the Son may prevent burning.

Plan ahead -- It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

Most people want to serve God, but only in an advisory position.

Suffering from truth decay? Brush up on your Bible.

Exercise daily -- walk with the Lord.

Never give the devil a ride -- he will always want to drive.

Nothing else ruins the truth like stretching it.



Man's way leads to a hopeless end -- God's way leads to an endless hope .

Compassion is difficult to give away because it keeps coming back.

He who angers you controls ! you.

Worry is the darkroom in which negatives can develop.

Give Satan an inch & he'll be a ruler.

Be ye fishers of men -- you catch them & He'll clean them.

God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called.

A lot of kneeling will keep you in good standing.

He who kneels before God can stand before anyone.

In the sentence of life, the devil may be a comma--but never let him be the period.

Don't put a question mark where God puts a period.

Are you wrinkled with burden? Come to the church for a face-lift.

When praying, don't give God instructions - just report for duty.

Don't wait for six strong men to take you to church.

A bully is always a coward BUT a kind and true friend is always bold as a lion.

"If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothingyou cannot achieve." - Lao tzu

"Christ must be the light that shines through you, and the people looking at you must see only Jesus. You have a challenge from Jesus to meet: He has shed the light, and you will take His light and lighten every heart you meet." ~ Mother Teresa

It's never too late to be who you might have been. ~ George Eliot

"You're not ready to live until you are ready to die." ~ Chuck Swindoll

Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable. Og Mandino (1923-1996, American motivational author, speaker)

"Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it."

"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation."

Confidence is not always being right but not fearing to be wrong. It is not always measured by positive results but by continued desire to try all possible efforts to succeed.

Give your very best in every thing you do so that if you fail you will have no regrets.

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. Auguste Rodin (1840-1917, French sculptor)

"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."

"To solve any problem, there are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, whom could I ask?" Jim Rohn

"What would you do, how would you change your life, if you learned today that you only had six months to live?" Brian Tracy

"An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea."

"The guy says, 'When you work where I work, by the time you get home, it's late. You've got to have a bite to eat, watch a little TV, relax and get to bed. You can't sit up half the night planning, planning, planning.' And he's the same guy who is behind on his car payment!" Jim Rohn

"He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law."

"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

"You can have anything you want in this world; if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price." - Mary Kaye

"If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got."

“A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a whole life’s experience.”~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom; mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”~ Lao Tzu
"As a man thinks in his heart, so is he." -- Proverbs 23:7, Bible

"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones." -- Phillips Brooks

"Character is a quality that embodies many important traits, such as integrity, courage, perseverance, confidence and wisdom. Unlike your fingerprints that you are born with and can´t change, character is something that you create within yourself and must take responsibility for changing" -- Jim Rohn

"I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This conflict with difficulty makes us acquainted with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial." -- Edmund Burke

"My preferred person today is one who is always aware of the needs of others, or their pain and fear and unhappiness, and their search for self-respect. I once liked clever people. Now I like good People." -- Soloman Freehof

"The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it." -- John Ruskin

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved." -- Helen Keller

"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving." -- Dale Carnegie

"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death." -- Thomas Paine

"Be absolutely clear about who you are and what you stand for. Refuse to compromise." -- Brian Tracy

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character." -- Albert Einstein
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." -- Abraham Lincoln


"I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!" -- Theodore Roosevelt

"If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it." -- Marcus Aurelius

"The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back." -- Abigail Van Buren

"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." -- Frank Outlaw

"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."

"When it comes to change, there are three seasons of timing: People change when they hurt enough that they have to, when they learn enough that they want to, and when they receive enough that they are able to." (John Maxwell)

Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability. -- Roy L. Smith

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. -- Stephen King

The only competition you will ever have is the competition between your disciplined and undisciplined mind. -- James A. Ray

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors. -- Jim Rohn

"We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them." - Albert Einstein

"The man says, 'If I had a fortune, I'd take good care of it. But I only have a paycheck and I don't know where it all goes.' Wouldn't you love to have him running your company?" Jim Rohn

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. - Ashe

"One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes." B. Disraeli

"Don't wait. The time will never be just right."


If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence. John B. Gough (1817-1886, British-born American temperance orator)

As a rule, you will find that those who complain about the way the ball bounces are usually the ones who dropped it. - ZINGERS

Please don’t pray for rain if you are going to complain about the mud. - ZINGERS
The loudest boos always come from those in the free seats. - ZINGERS


Those who beef too much often land in the stew. - ZINGERS

Watch your attitude toward the thing that troubles you. Your attitude may hurt more than the thing. - ZINGERS

"Success demands singleness of purpose." - Simple-ology

We retain 10% of what we read. We retain 20% of what we hear. We retain 30% of what we see. We retain 50% of what we hear and see. We retain 70% of what we say. We retain 90% of what we do.

The "20/80 Rule" tells us we will typically accomplish 80% of our results through 20% of our effort. The other 20% of additional results comes from about 80% of additional effort.

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same." R. Reagan

"An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching." - from Simple-ology

"Who are the learned? They who practice what they know." - from Simple-ology
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly."

Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worth- while." Grenville Kleiser

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."- Conrad Hilton

"Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus." -Oprah Winfrey

"Success is getting and achieving what you want. " -- Bernard Meltzer

"You are successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal." -- Chuck Carlson

"It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world."

"Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it."

"No crime is so great as daring to excel."

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - W. Churchill

"Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture." Amelia Earhart

"No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves." - Amelia Earhart

"Victory belongs to the most persevering."

"Doubt can only be removed by action."

"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses."

"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world." Samuel Langhome Clemens (Mark Twain)

"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." Samuel Langhome Clemens (Mark Twain)

"We must use *time* wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right."

"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome."

"We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort."

"Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation."

"Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work." - Jack Nicklaus

"Focus on remedies, not faults." - Jack Nicklaus

"Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time." - B. Shaw

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them - B. Shaw

"Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one."

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the one who'll decide where you'll go" Theodor Seuss Geisel


Whenever someone must always rationalize and examine whether the things of God are beneficial to them, you know that they are not hungry enough for God - Os Hillman


"Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieveany goal that is worthwhile." - Vince Lombardi

"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." - Vince Lombardi

"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."
Stewardship reveals what we believe about God and ourselves - Os Hillman


Let us realize that the privilege to work is a gift, that power to work is a blessing, that love of work is success. David O. McKay

If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. Chinese Proverb

I will tell you that there have been no failures in my life. I don't want to sound like some metaphysical queen, but there have been no failures. There have been some tremendous lessons. Oprah Winfrey(1954-, American TV Personality, Actress, Author)


When a dream takes hold of you, what can you do? You can run with it, let it run your life, or let it go and think for the rest of your life about what might have been. — Patch Adams, M.D.


"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."