Handling Customer

Fielding customer complaints is tough business: for starters, there's not always a clear-cut solution to the problem. Then there are the customers who seem to be spoiling for a fight....

When a customer calls with a problem, it indicates that the customer is sufficiently motivated to engage your company. Sure, your company could recite its standing policy back at them, or attempt some other defensive measure. But all you’ll wind up doing is alienating a customer and eliminating any possible of repeat business.

So try this approach: 'We try to deliver a quality product, but we know we aren’t perfect. Tell me about the problem.'

This approach SEEMS commonsensical but it's amazing how many companies don't set this sort of policy in stone. You’ll be surprised how a little courtesy and diplomacy can diffuse a tense confrontation. At the very least, you won't be picking fights with the very people who make your business possible--the customers!

Best Quotes for the Day!!

"Remember where you have been and know where you are going. Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way."
Nikita Koloff

"Life is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time."
Margaret Mead

"One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others."
Archibald Rutledge

Best Quotes of the Day!

"Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect."

--Margaret Mitchell

"There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what 

you want; and after that, to enjoy it.  Only the wisest of 

mankind achieve the second"

--Logan Pearsall Smith

"Faith is the only known cure for fear."

--Lena K. Sadler

Best Quotes of the Day!

"Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect."

--Margaret Mitchell

"There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what 

you want; and after that, to enjoy it.  Only the wisest of 

mankind achieve the second"

--Logan Pearsall Smith

"Faith is the only known cure for fear."

--Lena K. Sadler

Motivation for the Day: "Make the other person happy doing the thing you suggest." - Dale Carnegie

Nobody enjoys doing chores, but almost everyone will perform a task if its to their benefit.

The trick, then, is to present an assignment to a subordinate in such a way that it appears to be in his or her interest to tackle it.

For example, don’t tell your assistant, 'The stock room looks like a pig sty. Straighten it up before you leave tonight.'

Instead try this approach. 'I told the boss how efficiently you re-organized the stock room. She wants to stop by tomorrow to see it. Could you make sure that the room is still in good order?' Manipulative? Not if there is a clear reward to the responsible employee who views an onerous task as an opportunity. Just be sure that this worker's efforts ARE noticed by the powers that be....

Quotes on "Attitude"

The longer I live, the more I realise the impact of attitude on life.

It is more important than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than whatever anyone might say or do.

It is more important than appearances, giftedness or skill.
The remarkable thing is that we have the choice to create the attitude we have for that day.

We cannot change our past. We cannot change the way people act. We cannot change the inevitable.

The one thing we can change is the only thing we have control over, and that is our attitude.

I am convinced that life is 10% what actually happens to us and 90% how we react to it.

Inspirational mail : The Tomato business

An unemployed man is desperate to support his family of a wife and three kids.
He applies for a janitor's job at a large firm and easily passes an aptitude test.
The human resources manager tells him, 'You will be hired at minimum wage of $5.35 an hour. Let me have your e-mail address so that we can get you in the loop. Our system will automatically e-mail you all the forms and advise you when to start and where to report on your first day.'
Taken back, the man protests that he is poor and has neither a computer nor an e-mail address.
To this the manager replies, 'You must understand that to a company like ours that means that you virtually do not exist. Without an e-mail address you can hardly expect to be employed by a high-tech firm. Good day.'
Stunned, the man leaves. Not knowing where to turn and having $10 in his wallet, he walks past a farmers' market and sees a stand selling 25 lb crates of beautiful red tomatoes. He buys a crate, carries it to a busy corner and displays the tomatoes. In less than 2 hours he sells all the tomatoes and makes 100% profit. Repeating the process several times more that day, he ends up with almost $100 and arrives home that night with several bags of groceries for his family.
During the night he decides to repeat the tomato business the next day. By the end of the week he is getting up early every day and working into the night. He multiplies his profits quickly.
Early in the second week he acquires a cart to transport several boxes of tomatoes at a time, but before a month is up he sells the cart to buy a broken-down pickup truck.
At the end of a year he owns three old trucks. His two sons have left their neighbourhood gangs to help him with the tomato business, his wife is buying the tomatoes and his daughter is taking night courses at the community college, so she can keep books for him.
By the end of the second year he has a dozen very nice used trucks and employs fifteen previously unemployed people, all selling tomatoes. He continues to work hard.
Time passes and at the end of the fifth year he owns a fleet of nice trucks and a warehouse that his wife supervises, plus two tomato farms that the boys manage. The tomato company's payroll has put hundreds of homeless and jobless people to work. His daughter reports that the business grossed over one million dollars.
Planning for the future, he decides to buy some life insurance.
Consulting with an insurance adviser, he picks an insurance plan to fit his new circumstances. Then the adviser asks him for his e-mail address in order to send the final documents electronically.
When the man replies that he doesn't have time to mess with a computer and has no e-mail address, the insurance man is stunned, 'What, you don't have e-mail? No computer? No Internet? Just think where you would be today if you'd had all of that five years ago!'
'No!' snorts the man. 'If I'd had e-mail five years ago I would be sweeping floors and making $5.35 an hour.'
Author Unknown

Quotes of Aristotle

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
Aristotle

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
Aristotle

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
Aristotle

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
Aristotle

All men by nature desire to know.
Aristotle

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
Aristotle

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
Aristotle

As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart sustaineth him; and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.
Aristotle

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
Aristotle

Bad men are full of repentance.
Aristotle

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Aristotle

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
Aristotle

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
Aristotle

Change in all things is sweet.
Aristotle

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Aristotle

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
Aristotle

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Aristotle

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
Aristotle

Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
Aristotle

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Aristotle

Education is the best provision for old age.
Aristotle

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Aristotle

For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
Aristotle

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle

Friendship is essentially a partnership.
Aristotle

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
Aristotle

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Aristotle

Homer has taught all other poets the are of telling lies skillfully.
Aristotle

Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle

Hope is the dream of a waking man.
Aristotle

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
Aristotle

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
Aristotle

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
Aristotle

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
Aristotle

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
Aristotle

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Aristotle

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
Aristotle

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
Aristotle

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
Aristotle

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Aristotle

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.
Aristotle

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
Aristotle

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
Aristotle

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle

Man is by nature a political animal.
Aristotle

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
Aristotle

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
Aristotle

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
Aristotle

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
Aristotle

Most people would rather give than get affection.
Aristotle

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Aristotle

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Aristotle

Nature does nothing uselessly.
Aristotle

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
Aristotle

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
Aristotle

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
Aristotle

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
Aristotle

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
Aristotle

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
Aristotle

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
Aristotle

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Aristotle

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Aristotle

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
Aristotle

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
Aristotle

Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable -should persist after the beauty was gone.
Aristotle

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Aristotle

That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.
Aristotle

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Aristotle

The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.
Aristotle

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Aristotle

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
Aristotle

The end of labor is to gain leisure.
Aristotle

The gods too are fond of a joke.
Aristotle

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
Aristotle

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
Aristotle

The law is reason, free from passion.
Aristotle

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
Aristotle

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
Aristotle

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale - and that alone can guide.
Aristotle

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
Aristotle

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
Aristotle

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle

The secret to humor is surprise.
Aristotle

The soul never thinks without a picture.
Aristotle

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Aristotle

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Aristotle

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
Aristotle

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
Aristotle

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
Aristotle

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
Aristotle

This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.
Aristotle

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
Aristotle

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
Aristotle

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
Aristotle

To the query, ''What is a friend?'' his reply was ''A single soul dwelling in two bodies.''
Aristotle

Tragedy is thus a representation of an action that is worth serious attention, complete in itself and of some amplitude... by means of pity and fear bringing about the purgation of such emotions.
Aristotle

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

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
Aristotle

We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
Aristotle

We make war that we may live in peace.
Aristotle

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
Aristotle

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
Aristotle

Well begun is half done.
Aristotle

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
Aristotle

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
Aristotle

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Aristotle

Wit is educated insolence.
Aristotle

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Aristotle

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Aristotle

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
Aristotle

Quotes of Albert Einstein

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
Albert Einstein

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
Albert Einstein

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
Albert Einstein

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
Albert Einstein

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
Albert Einstein

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.
Albert Einstein

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
Albert Einstein

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.
Albert Einstein

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
Albert Einstein

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Albert Einstein

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Albert Einstein

Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
Albert Einstein

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Albert Einstein

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Albert Einstein

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Albert Einstein

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.
Albert Einstein

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
Albert Einstein

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Albert Einstein

Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind.
Albert Einstein

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Albert Einstein

Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me.
Albert Einstein

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert Einstein

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
Albert Einstein

Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
Albert Einstein

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Albert Einstein

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Albert Einstein

Force always attracts men of low morality.
Albert Einstein

Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this walked the earth in flesh and blood.
Albert Einstein

God always takes the simplest way.
Albert Einstein

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Albert Einstein

God does not play dice.
Albert Einstein

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
Albert Einstein

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein

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

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein

He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Albert Einstein

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Albert Einstein

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Albert Einstein

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill! In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot.
Albert Einstein

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Albert Einstein

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Albert Einstein

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
Albert Einstein

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
Albert Einstein

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
Albert Einstein

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
Albert Einstein

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
Albert Einstein

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
Albert Einstein

I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!
Albert Einstein

I have just got a new theory of eternity.
Albert Einstein

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
Albert Einstein

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert Einstein

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein

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

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
Albert Einstein

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
Albert Einstein

I want to know God's thoughts... the rest are details.
Albert Einstein

If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein

If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
Albert Einstein

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert Einstein

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Albert Einstein

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
Albert Einstein

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
Albert Einstein

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
Albert Einstein

Information is not knowledge.
Albert Einstein

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
Albert Einstein

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
Albert Einstein

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Albert Einstein

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Albert Einstein

It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Albert Einstein

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
Albert Einstein

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
Albert Einstein

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
Albert Einstein

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
Albert Einstein

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
Albert Einstein

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Albert Einstein

Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps it all will.
Albert Einstein

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
Albert Einstein

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
Albert Einstein

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Albert Einstein

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein

Love is a better teacher than duty.
Albert Einstein

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
Albert Einstein

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
Albert Einstein

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
Albert Einstein

Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
Albert Einstein

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Albert Einstein

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Albert Einstein

Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.
Albert Einstein

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
Albert Einstein

Never lose a holy curiosity.
Albert Einstein

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Albert Einstein

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
Albert Einstein

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

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
Albert Einstein

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
Albert Einstein

On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it.
Albert Einstein

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
Albert Einstein

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
Albert Einstein

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Albert Einstein

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
Albert Einstein

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Albert Einstein

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
Albert Einstein

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
Albert Einstein

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
Albert Einstein

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
Albert Einstein

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Albert Einstein

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Albert Einstein

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
Albert Einstein

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
Albert Einstein

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
Albert Einstein

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Albert Einstein

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
Albert Einstein

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Albert Einstein

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
Albert Einstein

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Albert Einstein

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein

The environment is everything that isn't me.
Albert Einstein

The faster you go, the shorter you are.
Albert Einstein

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Albert Einstein

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Albert Einstein

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
Albert Einstein

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
Albert Einstein

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
Albert Einstein

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
Albert Einstein

The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks.
Albert Einstein

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Albert Einstein

The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Albert Einstein

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
Albert Einstein

The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Albert Einstein

The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.
Albert Einstein

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
Albert Einstein

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Einstein

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Albert Einstein

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
Albert Einstein

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Albert Einstein

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Albert Einstein

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
Albert Einstein

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
Albert Einstein

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Albert Einstein

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Albert Einstein

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
Albert Einstein

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

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Albert Einstein

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
Albert Einstein

They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.
Albert Einstein

Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.
Albert Einstein

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
Albert Einstein

To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
Albert Einstein

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Albert Einstein

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
Albert Einstein

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
Albert Einstein

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
Albert Einstein

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
Albert Einstein

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
Albert Einstein

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
Albert Einstein

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Albert Einstein

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.
Albert Einstein

When the solution is simple, God is answering.
Albert Einstein

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
Albert Einstein

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
Albert Einstein

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert Einstein

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
Albert Einstein

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
Albert Einstein

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
Albert Einstein

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Albert Einstein

Quotes on Acheivement by famous people around the globe

Achievement


Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish
Jean De La Fontaine
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless.
You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life,
something greater than yourself
Denis Waitley
Set your sights high, the higher the better.
Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now.
Realize that nothing is too good.
Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way
Eileen Caddy
I move forward in my life every day, even if it's only a tiny step,
because I know that great things are accomplished with tiny moves,
but nothing is accomplished by standing still
Zig Ziglar
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender
Vince Lombardi
We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn.
Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service
Earl Nightingale

All of the great achievers of the past have been visionary figures;
they were men and women who projected into the future.
They thought of what could be, rather than what already was,
and then they moved themselves into action, to bring these things into fruition
Bob Proctor
No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem,
if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things
Channing Pollock

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly
Dr. Robert Schuller

Goal-setting illuminates the road to success just as runway lights
illuminate the landing field for an incoming aircraft
Nido Qubein

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward.
They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert
integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers,
the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary
Cecil Beaton
The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become
the best that you can become
Harold Taylor

I've found that often, just when you think you've hit a wall, you experience
a breakthrough that takes you to new heights in accomplishment
Stedman Graham

Achievers rarely, if ever, see a problem as permanent,while those
who fail see even the smallest problems as permanent
Tony Robbins
Ambition is the spur that makes men struggle with destiny.
It is heaven's own incentive to make purpose great and achievement greater
Donald G. Mitchell
It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer,
the achiever - the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it
Vince Lombardi
We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we
find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to
conquer and goals to achieve
Maxwell Maltz
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement,
achievement, and success have no meaning
Benjamin Franklin
The more reasons you have for achieving your goal, the more determined you will become
Brian Tracy
Goals are like stepping-stones to the stars.
They should never be used to put a ceiling or a limit on achievement
Denis Waitley
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence
Helen Keller
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that.
A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now.
Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
Nolan Bushnell
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out if they've got a second.
Give your dreams all you've got. You'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you
William James

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

A wish is a desire without energy
Paramanhansa Yogananda
You accomplish victory step by step, not by leaps and bounds
Lyn St. James

There is real magic in enthusiasm.
It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment
Norman Vincent Peale
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances
Bruce Barton
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it
Michael Jordan

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome
Samuel Johnson
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement
Henry Ford

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers
Orison Swett Marden
Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily.
Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on.
If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too.
Keep believing and keep on keeping on
Norman Vincent Peale

Champions are propelled by desire, not compelled by fear
Denis Waitley
Determine what specific goal you want to achieve.
Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving
singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader
Paul J. Meyer
I am a big believer in the 'mirror test'.
All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell
the person you see there, that you've done your best
John McKay

Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible,
and suddenly you are doing the impossible
St. Francis of Assisi

A decision is made with the brain. A commitment is made with the heart.
Therefore, a commitment is much deeper and more binding than a decision
Nido Qubein
To show your true ability is always, in a sense, to surpass the limits of your ability,
to go a little beyond them: to dare, to seek, to invent; it is at such
a moment that new talents are revealed, discovered, and realized
Simone de Beauvoir
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade
Tom Peters
Never mistake activity for achievement
John Wooden
The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself
Denis Waitley
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing
can be done without hope and confidence
Helen Keller
Only one thing is ever guaranteed, that is that you will definitely
not achieve the goal if you don't take the shot.
Wayne Gretzky
Who works achieves and who sows reaps
Arabian Proverb
Every great work, every great accomplishment,
has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision,
and often just before the big achievement,
comes apparent failure and discouragement
Florence Scovel Shinn

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving
Albert Einstein
I can change. I can live out of my imagination instead
of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless
potential instead of my limiting past
Stephen Covey
I have always struggled to achieve excellence.
One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve
something without a struggle it's not going to be satisfying
Greg LeMond
Cyclist and 3 Times Winner of the Tour de France
What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve
Napoleon Hill
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans
Max Ehrmann

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
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, magic and power in it. Begin it now.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you want to achieve widespread impact and lasting value, be bold
Howard Schultz
A gem cannot be polished without friction
Chinese Proverb
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as
what you become by achieving your goals
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible
Mary Baker Eddy
Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of
aspiration and expectation
Jack Nicklaus
Do what you love, love what you do, and deliver more than you promise
Harvey Mackay

The key to achievement lies in being a 'HOW' thinker, not an 'IF' thinker
Author Unknown
When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to
accomplish what at first seemed impossible
Nido Qubein
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it
Sir Winston Churchill
If we did all the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves
Thomas Edison
It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer,
the achiever - the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it
Vince Lombardi
Most of the things worth doing in the world have been
declared impossible before they were attempted
Earl Nightingale

Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit
Conrad Hilton
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish,
but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything
Napoleon Hill
Each of us was born with wings and has the ability to go farther than we ever
thought possible, to do things beyond our wildest imaginings
Barbara Stanny
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence
Helen Keller
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice.
It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved
Jeremy Kitson
The single common denominator of people who
achieve great things is a sense of destiny
Author Unknown
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that
he really wants to and makes up his mind to do.
We are capable of greater things than we realize
Norman Vincent Peale

To accomplish great things, we must not only act,
but also dream; not only plan, but also believe
Anatole France

The greatest achievement is to out perform yourself
Denis Waitley
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation
Jack Kinder
All great achievements have one thing in common - people with a passion to succeed
Pat Cash

If we are to achieve results never before accomplished,
we must expect to employ methods never before attempted
Francis Bacon
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
Weak desire brings weak results
Napoleon Hill
There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference
between mediocrity and accomplishment
Norman Vincent Peale

Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the
children of the blueprints of your ultimate achievements
Napoleon Hill
To achieve the impossible, one must think the absurd; to look where
everyone else has looked, but to see what no else has seen
Author Unknown
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit
Harry S Truman
Desire is the starting point of all achievement
Napoleon Hill
I've found that often, just when you think you've hit a wall,
you experience a breakthrough that takes you to new heights in accomplishment
Stedman Graham

Attitude


All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable,
those that are movable, and those that move
Benjamin Franklin

You can't always change your situation, but you can always change your attitude
Larry Hargraves
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude
Maya Angelou
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will
Zig Ziglar

Ability is what you're capable of doing.
Motivation determines what you do.
Attitude determines how well you do it
Raymond Chandler

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan,
carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life.
But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered
merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign
Victor Hugo

If a man empties his purse in his head, no one can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest
Benjamin Franklin
Risk more than others think is safe.
Care more than others think is wise.
Dream more than others think is practical.
Expect more than others think is possible.
Claude T. Bissell
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to
know whether you did it or not
Oprah Winfrey
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Challenge each problem you face with purposeful thought and determined action.
Resolve that 'every' situation you encounter will make you better, stronger,
wiser, more skillful and more loving
Steve Brunkhorst
Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us
Earl Nightingale
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams
Les Brown
There is a little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference.
That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative
W. Clement Stone

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds;
it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities
that were somehow absent before the change
Earl Nightingale
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving,
and that's your own self
Aldous Huxley
Develop an 'attitude of gratitude.'
Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything they do for you
Brian Tracy
We must learn to help those who deserve it, not just those who need it.
Life responds to deserve not need
Jim Rohn
We have to go for what we think we're fully capable of,
not limit ourselves by what we've been in the past
Vivek Paul
When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy,
care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life
Jean Shinoda Bolen
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself
Galileo
People who soar, are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change.
Charles R. Swindoll
A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
Author Unknown

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference
Sir Winston Churchill
Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations
Faith Baldwin

We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life.
But we can decide what happens in us ... how we can take it,
what we can do with it ... and that is what really counts in the end
Joseph Fort Newton

Do your work with all your heart and you will succeed
Elbert Hubbard
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and
vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says,
'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it
William James
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances,
but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes
Hugh Downs

When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with
the positive principle, you can do incredible things
Norman Vincent Peale
The most significant change in a person's life is a change of attitude.
Right attitudes produce right actions
William J. Johnson
We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts
Madeleine L'Engle
If you don't program yourself, life will program you!
Les Brown
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over
and showing it principally in one place
Josh Billings
A decision is made with the brain. A commitment is made with the heart.
Therefore, a commitment is much deeper and more binding than a decision
Nido Qubein

The last of the human freedoms: to choose one's attitude in any
given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way
Viktor Frankl

Throughout all history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers,
and prophets have disagreed with one another on many different things.
It is only on this one point that they are in complete and unanimous agreement.
We become what we think about
Earl Nightingale

Your attitude is either the lock on, or the key to the door of success
Denis Waitley
If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think
Clarence Darrow
A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Someday may never come. So live each day better than the last.
That way you'll wake up with so much excitement and anticipation
you'll jump out of bed and shout 'I can't wait!'
Bob Perks
It takes a smart person to have the last word and not use it
Author Unknown
It is good to have an end to journey towards;
but it is the journey that matters in the end
Ursula Le Guin
Good humor is a tonic for mind and body.
It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression.
It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens.
It is the direct route to serenity and contentment
Grenville Kleiser
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
George Bernard Shaw
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which,
more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome
William James
While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity
Publilius Syrus

Sometimes the slightest shift in the way you look at things,
a seemingly insignificant change in perspective can alter your life forever
Author Unknown
Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped
African Proverb
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how
anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us
Stephen R. Covey
Wherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you. Even if it is
a little thing, do something for which there is no pay but the
privilege of doing it. Remember, you don't live in a world all of
your own
Albert Schweitzer
The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels
Hazrat Inayat Khan
The most important question to ask on the job is not 'What am I getting?'
The most important question to ask on the job is 'What am I becoming?'
Jim Rohn
Good humour is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society
William Makepeace
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to
Robert Half
The world can change in an instant.
So can the way you choose to see it.
Why not choose to see the good in yourself and others
Bob Perks
Many an opportunity is lost because a man is
out looking for four-leaf clovers
Author Unknown

Create your future from your future, not from your past
Werner Erhard
Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway
John Wayne

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise
Mary Kay Ash
The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it,
but that it is too low and we reach it.
Michelangelo
I feel the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more
Jonas Salk
Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing
Albert Schweitzer
No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power
to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change
Barbara DeAngelis

Two stonecutters were asked what they were doing.
The first said, 'I'm cutting this stone into blocks.'
The second replied, 'I'm on a team that's building a cathedral'
Author Unknown
Enthusiasm finds the opportunities, and energy makes the most of them
Henry Hoskins

The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow.
Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show
Author Unknown
Set your sights high, the higher the better.
Expect the most wonderful things to happen; not in the future but right now
Eileen Caddy
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out
James. B. Conant
Ability is what you're capable of doing.
Motivation determines what you do.
Attitude determines how well you do it
Lou Holtz
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy that makes happiness
Charles Sprugeon
Deal with the world the way it is, not the way you wish it was
John Chambers
The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot
Michael Althsuler
Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey
Babs Hoffman
What is important is not what happens to us,
but how we respond to what happens to us
Jean-Paul Sartre
People who have a positive attitude, are inspired, motivated and passionate
about what they believe in, communicate better and more effectively
Keith Ready
Your attitude determines your altitude
Zig Ziglar

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine with only interests
John Stuart Mill
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves,
some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all
Sam Ewig
There is no danger of developing eyestrain from looking on the bright side of things
Author Unknown
If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort,
eventually you will overcome your immediate problems
and find you are ready for greater challenges
Pat Riley
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else,
will affect its successful outcome
William James
You are what you think about all day long
Dr. Robert Schuller
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade
Author Unknown
The most unknown, unused and unrecognised tool of the human mind,
is the recognition that attitude is always a choice
Mark Horton
Excellence


Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment
Oprah Winfrey

A man is relieved and happy when he has put his heart into his work and done his best
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The noblest search is the search for excellence
Lyndon B. Johnson
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.
Make big plans, aim high in hope and work
Daniel H. Burnham
Set excellent performance as your standard and strive to achieve it each day
Brian Tracy

Don't wait for an employer, friend, or mentor to show appreciation for your work.
Take pride in your own efforts on a daily basis
Denis Waitley
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are
August W. Hare

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential<
these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence
Eddie Robinson

Strive for perfection in everything. Take the best that exists and make it better.
If it doesn't exist, create it. Accept nothing nearly right or good enough
Henry Royce
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity
Leonard Berry

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment
Thomas Carlyle

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing
Harriet Braiker

It's simple ... go the extra mile and you will stand out from the crowd
Robin Crow

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence
Martin Luther King, Jr.

I believe one of the most important priorities is to do whatever we do as well as we can
Victor Kermit Kiam

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better
Pat Riley
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence.
To know how to do something well is to enjoy it
Pearl S. Buck
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work
Aristotle
Productivity is determined not by work ... but by effective actions disguised as work
Doug Firebaugh
Believe in the best ... have a goal for the best,
never be satisfied with less than your best,
try your best, and in the long run things will turn out for the best
Henry Ford

Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends
Brian Tracy

Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is.
It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything.
Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best
Sir Laurence Olivier
Then give to the world the best you have,
and the best will come back to you
Madeline Bridges

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work
Aristotle

We must overcome the notion that we must be regular.
It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre
Uta Hagen

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't
Martin Van Buren
I have always struggled to achieve excellence.
One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something
without a struggle it's not going to be satisfying
Greg LeMond
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him
John Steinbeck
Celebrate what you've accomplished,
but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed
Mia Hamm
Strive for perfection in everything. Take the best that exists and make it better.
If it doesn't exist, create it. Accept nothing nearly right or good enough
Henry Royce
It is not the straining for great things that is most effective;
it is the doing of the little things, the common duties, a little better and better
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

One that desires to excel should endeavour in those things
that are in themselves most excellent
Epictetus

Emphasize the best, and minimize the rest
Katherine Hammett

Whatever your discipline, become a student of excellence in all things.
Take every opportunity to observe people who manifest the qualities of mastery.
These models of excellence will inspire you and guide
you toward the fulfillment of your highest potential
Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way
Booker T. Washington
A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance
Tom Flores

Reality forms around your commitments.
The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it
Max Steingart

Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude
Colin L. Powell
Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement
if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day
Booker T. Washington
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to
reach your full potential ... these are the keys that
will unlock the door to personal excellence
Eddie Robinson
What we hope ever to do with ease,
we must learn first to do with diligence
Samuel Johnson
Be great in act, as you have been in thought
William Shakespeare
Striving for excellence motivates you;
striving for perfection is demoralizing
Harriet Braiker

It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is.
It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything.
Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best
Sir Laurence Olivier
Champions keep playing until they get it right
Billie Jean King
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment
to improve the world
Anne Frank
The will to win, the desire to succeed,
the urge to reach your full potential...these are the keys
that will unlock the door to personal excellence
Eddie Robinson

The starting point of all achievement is desire
Napoleon Hill
Excellence is an art won by training and habitation.
We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,
but rather we have those because we have acted rightly.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act but a habit
Aristotle

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess,
but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects
Alexis de Tocqueville

Always seek to excel yourself. Put yourself in competition with yourself each day.
Each morning look back upon your work of yesterday and then try to beat it
Charles M. Sheldon

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
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it
W. Somerset Maugham
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion
to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their
chosen field of endeavour
Vincent Lombardi
There is nothing impossible to him who will try
Alexander the Great
Quality is not an act. It is a habit
Aristotle
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 Winfrey
He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.
Dream lofty dreams and as you dream so shall you become
James Allen

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
Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence.
Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you
that there is no limit to what you can accomplish
Brian Tracy
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream.
This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away
Denis Waitley

Make your life a masterpiece;
imagine no limitations on what you can be, have or do.
Brian Tracy

Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm.
Nothing great was ever achieved without it because
it gives any challenge or any occupation, no matter
how frightening or difficult, a new meaning.
Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of
mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles
Og Mandino
Strive for perfection in everything.
Take the best that exists and make it better.
If it doesn't exist, create it.
Accept nothing nearly right or good enough
Henry Royce
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
It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts;
it's what you put into the practice
Eric Lindros
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort
John Ruskin
Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for
doing a great deal at once. True greatness consists in being great in the little things
Charles Simmons
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention,
sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution;
it represents the wise choice of many alternatives
Willa A. Foster
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach you full potential,
these are the keys that will unlock the door of personal excellence
Eddie Robinson

Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well,
you can do a bigger thing well, too
Joseph Storey
Some people have greatness thrust upon them.
Few have excellence thrust upon them, they achieve it.
They do not achieve it unwittingly by doing what comes naturally
and they don't stumble into it in the course of amusing themselves.
All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose
John William Gardner
Great things are not done by impulse,
but by a series of small things brought together
Vincent Van Gogh

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself
William Faulkner
Whatever your discipline, become a student of excellence in all things.
Take every opportunity to observe people who manifest the qualities of mastery.
These models of excellence will inspire you and guide
you toward the fulfilment of your highest potential
Tony Buzan
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit
Aristotle
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expect of you
Henry Ward Beecher
Remember every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it.
Autograph your work with excellence
Author Unknown
Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to become better
Pat Riley
Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it
George Halas
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence.
To know how to do something well is to enjoy it
Pearl S. Buck
Excellence can be attained if you Care more than others think is wise,
Risk more than others think is safe,
Dream more than others think is practical,
and Expect more than others think is possible
Author Unknown
When someone does something well, applaud!
You will make two people happy
Samuel Goldwyn
If your number one goal is to make sure that everyone likes and approves of you,
then you risk sacrificing your uniqueness and, therefore, your excellence
Author Unknown
Inspirational

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it,
but because they didn't stop to enjoy it
William Feather
Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend
Albert Camus
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come.
We have only today. Let us begin
Mother Teresa
Encourage one another. Many times a word of praise or thanks or appreciation
or cheer has kept people on their feet
Charles Swindoll

The fruits of life fall into the hands of those who climb the tree and pick them
Earl Tupper

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back
Chinese Proverb

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear
Maya Angelou

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the
young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the
striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong.
Because some day in life you will have been all these
George Washington Carver

The reason a dog has got so many friends is because its tail waggles and not its tongue.
Author Unknown

An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart
David Augsburger

Your best friend should bring out the best in you
Denis Waitley
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it
with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith
Henry Ward Beecher
The only way to have a friend is to be one
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped
Anthony Robbins
If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends
Merry Browne
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
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches,
but to reveal to him his own
Benjamin Disraeli

Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals.
Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want
Marsha Sinetar
I've always said that the better off you are, the more
responsibility you have for helping others
Carlos Slim Helu
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart
and to sing it to them when they have forgotten
Author Unknown
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful
Denis Waitley
Our memories are our most priceless possessions
Author Unknown

We sing because we're happy and happy because we sing
Denis Waitley
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't hold something in your arms that you could never hold in your heart
Author Unknown

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans
John Lennon
Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness
Oliver Wendell Holmes

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows
St. Francis of Assisi

Children are an investment, and grandchildren are the dividends
Hilt Hammett
Laughter is the best way to make somebody's heart beat
Robert Holden
Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past,
what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.
Arnold H. Glasgow
Experience is the best of teachers, but her fees are heavy
Author Unknown
Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been
Mark Twain
What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly
Lao Tsu

If you live in my heart, you live rent free
Irish Proverb

You will find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people.
Why not make earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others?
Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy
Lydia M. Child

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do,
something to love, and something to hope for
Joseph Addison
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires
William Arthur Ward
In five years, you'll be exactly the person you are today
except for the books you read and the people you meet
Charlie 'Tremendous' Jones

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery
Mark Van Doren

You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of your heart that you truly give
Lorraine Hayward
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else
Booker T. Washington

Never let yesterday use up too much of today
Will Rogers
Sooner or later we must realize there is no station,
no one place to arrive at once and for all. The true joy of life is the trip
Robert J. Hastings
I praise loudly. I blame softly
Catherine the Great
To acquire knowledge, one must study;
but to acquire wisdom, one must observe
Marilyn vos Savant
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses,
for you only get to play one round
Ben Hogan
Worry gives a small thing a big shadow
Swedish Proverb
Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a
smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest
compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which
have the potential to turn a life around
Leo Buscaglia
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like
individual responsibility
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going
Jim Ryun
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire
William Butler Yeats
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are,
raise your sights and see possibilities - always see them, for they're always there
Dr.Norman Vincent Peale
To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind.
To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will.
To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed
Bernard Edmonds
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a
single moment before starting to improve the world
Anne Frank
Your brain doesn't know what it cannot do until you tell it
Ed Strachar
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening
when you would have preferred to talk
Doug Larson
The mind is like the stomach.
It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests
A.J. Nock
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago
Warren Buffett
Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't
even remember leaving open
Rose Wilder Lane
Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you
Marsha Normam
A vision is not just a picture of what could be;
it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more
Rosabeth Moss Kanter

If I had eight hours to cut down a big tree,
I'd spend 6 hours sharpening the axe
Abraham Lincoln
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Celebrate what you want to see more of
Tom Peters
The thoughts we choose to think are the tools
we use to paint the canvas of our lives
Louise Hay
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings
Eric Hoffer
Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear
everything you say about them
Stephen R. Covey
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get
only with what you are expected to give ... Which is everything
Katharine Hepburn
What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use
things, instead of using people and loving things
Author Unknown
Love is a force more formidable than any other.
It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured,
yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment,
and offer you more joy than any material possession could
Barbara De Angelis
Inspire yourself and others will be inspired.
Motivate yourself and others will be motivated.
Develop yourself and others will start to develop themselves.
Be an example first and then the world changes around you
Author Unknown
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so?
Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live.
Before they know it, time runs out
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless
Mother Teresa
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it
William Arthur Ward
Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules,
then you must forget the rules and play from your heart
Author Unknown
You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head,
but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair
Chinese Proverb
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant,
there is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks
Johann Gottfried von Herder
Shoot for the moon; even if you miss you'll land among the stars
Les Brown
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life and your relationships.
Be grateful for all the people who show up in your life
Author Unknown

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action
James Russell Lowell

Most of today's worries are like puddles: tomorrow they will have evaporated
Author Unknown
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls,
the longer it dwells and the deeper it sinks into the mind
Samuel Coleridge

A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart
Author Unknown
Leadership

There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient.
Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play
William B. Given, Jr.
Dare to go forward. Courage is the mark of greatness in leadership
Brian Tracy
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people
Woodrow Wilson

The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way
Henry Miller
Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow
Vince Lombardi
In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people,
they no longer can lead solely based on positional power
Ken Blanchard
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing.
The worst thing you can do is nothing
Theodore Roosevelt
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument,
debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand
Colin Powell
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely
Auguste Rodin
Remember that the six most expensive words in business are: 'We've always done it that way'
Catherine DeVrye
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push.
A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough
Richard M. Devos
A leader is someone who creates infectious enthusiasm
Ted Turner
If there is anything I would like to be remembered for it is that
I helped people understand that leadership is helping other people grow and succeed.
To repeat myself, leadership is not just about you. It's about them
Jack Welch

Leadership is not magnetic personality that can just as well be a glib tongue.
It is not 'making friends and influencing people' that is flattery.
Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights,
the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard,
the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations
Peter Drucker

The five most important words a leader can speak are - 'I am proud of you'
The four most important are - 'What is your opinion?'
The three most important are - 'If you please'
The two most important are - 'Thank You'
And the most important single word of all is - 'You'
Denis Waitley

You can tell a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell a man is wise by his questions
Naguib Mahfouz
Change cannot be avoided ... change provides the opportunity for innovation.
It gives you the chance to demonstrate your creativity
Felice Jones
To become a leader, then, you must become
yourself, become the maker of your own life
Warren G. Bennis
Techniques don't produce quality products or pick up
the garbage on time; people do, people who care, people
who are treated as creatively contributing adults
Tom Peters
The past doesn't equal the future.
All great leaders, all people who have achieved in any area of life,
know the power of continuously pursuing their vision,
even if all the details of how to achieve it aren't yet available.
Tony Robbins
When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced
courses of action you should take, choose the bolder
William Joseph Slim
A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well
and to help those who are doing well to do even better
Jim Rohn
The best way to gain and hold the loyalty of your
personnel is to show interest in them and care for
them, by your words and actions, in everything you do.
Secrets of Effective Leadership

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership
determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall
Stephen R. Covey

The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their
attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs.
He influences them by the dynamism of his faith.
He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met,
the need resolved, the crisis overcome
John Haggai

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more,
do more and become more, you are a leader
John Quincy Adams

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves
Ray Kroc

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved.
He inspires the power and energy to get it done
Ralph Nader
Great managers make themselves dispensable and let frontline people make the decisions
Sinclair Beecham
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire
to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your
peers, and about the people you serve
Brian Koval

Leadership is action, not position
Donald H. McGannon

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others
to want to do something you are convinced should be done.
Vance Packard
Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common
to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility
John McCain

Leaders tap into the emotions of their people by getting excited themselves
Brian Tracy
When you walk your talk, people listen
German Proverb

One cannot consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar
Helen Keller
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process
of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life
to be congruent with those most important things
Stephen Covey

The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do professionally and personally,
and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures
Warren G. Bennis

In the past a leader was a boss. Today’s leaders must be partners with their people ...
they no longer can lead solely based on positional power
Ken Blanchard

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united
with faith in his justice
George Washington Goethals

If you are going to help people reach their potential,
they need to be recognised and rewarded. Everyone needs that
Jacqueline Norcel
The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people
to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability
Fred A. Manske Jr

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs
of those who would be affected by it
Marian Anderson
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and
become more, you are a leader
John Quincy Adams
Ability is what you're capable of doing.
Motivation determines what you do.
Attitude determines how well you do it
Raymond Chandler
A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share
of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit
Author Unknown
Leaders aren't born, they are made.
And they are made just like anything else, through hard work"
Vince Lombardi

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked;
leadership is defined by results not attributes
Peter F. Drucker

There is only one thing worse than training employees and losing them,
and that's not training them and keeping them
Zig Ziglar
The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers...
Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership
Gary Wills
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality
Warren Bennis
To be successful in business, you have to be going somewhere,
and everyone in the company has to know where it is.
That's a basic rule, a higher law, but most companies miss it.
They miss the fact that you have a much better chance
of winning if everyone knows what it takes to win
Jack Stack
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune
Author Unknown
Leadership is demonstrated at the moment of need.
You learn to be a leader by acting, by doing
Carlos Ghosn
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character.
But if you must be without one, be without the strategy
Norman Schwarzkopf
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart,
than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership
are expressed, ultimately, in its practice
Max DePree
People don’t mind being challenged to do better if they
know the request is coming from a caring heart
Ken Blanchard

Leadership is simply an energy that mobilizes people and moves them
Doug Firebaugh

People have a reservoir of talent worth discovering.
They just have to be given the opportunity to discover it in themselves
Ricardo Semler
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way
John C. Maxwell

Managers help people see themselves as they are;
Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are
Jim Rohn
Tell me, and I'll forget. Show me, and I'll remember.
Involve me, and I'll learn.
Marla Jones

True leaders always practice the three R's:
Respect for self; Respect for others; Responsibility for all their actions.
Author Unknown
If you want to lead, first learn how to follow
Rick Beneteau

It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement,
to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
Joe Klock
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in
other men the conviction and the will to carry on
Walter Lippmann

Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen,
well-timed, sincere words of praise.
They're absolutely free and worth a fortune
Sam Walton
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision.
Vision is the perfume of the mind
Harriet Rubin

A coach is someone who tells you what you don't want to hear,
who has you see what you don't want to see,
so you can be who you have always known you could be
Tom Landry
A truly successful leader in any business or organisational endeavour
is exemplified in their ability to galvanise and engage
the support of their greatest asset . . . people
Keith Ready
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

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily,
even if you had no title or position
Author Unknown
It all comes down to this:
If you want one year of happiness, grow grain.
If you want 10 years of happiness, grow trees.
If you want 100 years of happiness, grow people
Harvey Mackay
It is wonderful when the people believe in their leader:
but it is more wonderful when the leader believes in the people
Author Unknown
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done,
because he wants to do it
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers - not their minds
Author Unknown
The task of a leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been
Henry Kissinger
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument,
debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand
General Colin Powell
You do not lead by hitting people over the head,
that's assault, not leadership
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions
Harold S. Geneen
A leader takes people where they want to go.
A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be
Rosalynn Carter
The most successful leader of all is the one who sees another picture not yet actualised
Mary Parker Follett
Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel.
If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish
Sam Walton
It is wonderful when the people believe in their leader:
but it is more wonderful when the leader believes in the people!
Author Unknown
Persistence


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

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day
what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal
Elbert Hubbard
Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you plan to stop peddling
Claude Pepper
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen,
but give us the determination to make the right things happen
Peter Marshall

Focus on the solution, not the problem
Walter Anderson
The majority of people meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in
creating new plans to take the place of those which fail
Napoleon Hill

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure
Edward Eggleston
Champions know there are no shortcuts to the top.
They climb the mountain one step at a time
Judi Adler
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
Lord Acton
If you make the unconditional commitment to reach your most important goals,
if the strength of your decision is sufficient, you will find the way and the power to achieve your goals
Robert Conklin

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence,
is the quality that most frequently makes for success
Dale Carnegie
Greatness is not where we stand, but in what direction we are moving.
We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it but sail we must,
and not drift, nor lie at anchor
Oliver Wendall Holmes

People do not lack strength; they lack will
Victor Hugo
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate that can circumvent or hinder
or control the firm resolve of a determined soul
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master
and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty
William J. Bennett

Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional
Roger Crawford
Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over
F. Scott Fitzgerald

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance,
sweeps away all obstacles
Claude M. Bristol

All you need is the plan, the road map,
and the courage to press on to your destination
Earl Nightingale
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish
John Quincy Adams

Obstacles don't have to stop you.
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it
Michael Jordan
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down
Charles F. Kettering

You can surmount the obstacles in your path if you are determined,
courageous and hard-working. Never be faint-hearted.
Be resolute, but never bitter
Ralph J. Bunche
Strive for perfection in everything.
Take the best that exists and make it better.
If it doesn't exist, create it.
Accept nothing nearly right or good enough
Henry Royce
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success
Napoleon Hill
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman,
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air
John Quincy Adams
The last dejected effort often becomes the winning stroke
W.J. Cameron

If your plan isn't working, adjust your plan. Never give up
Matt Martin
It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop
Confucius

In each of us are places where we have never gone.
Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them
Dr. Joyce Brothers
A day will never be anymore than what you make of it.
Practice being a doer!
Josh S. Hinds
Determination is the wake-up call to the human will
Tony Robbins
Inspiration grows into full-scale creation through persistence and imagination
Carol Lloyd
Have the dogged determination to follow through to achieve your goal;
regardless of circumstances or whatever other people say, think, or do
Paul Meyer
If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something
Franklin D. Roosevelt
As you work toward your goal, anxiously anticipating the light at the end of
the tunnel, don't forget to notice the light that shines upon you today
Michelle C. Ustaszeski
Act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done by hesitation
Thomas Henry Huxley
While no road is ever straight, dedication and persistence
will always lead you to your dreams
Arte Moreno

A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence
Jim Watkins

It's always too soon to quit
Norman Vincent Peale

Victory belongs to the most persevering
Napoleon Bonaparte

Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth
Julie Andrews
Being defeated is often a temporary condition.
Giving up is what makes it permanent
Marilyn vos Savant
Inspiration grows into full-scale creation through
persistence and imagination
Carol Lloyd
Continuous effort not strength or intelligence is the key to unlocking our potential
Sir Winston Churchill
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that?
We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.
We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained
Marie Curie
As you go along your road in life, you will, if you aim high enough,
also meet resistance... but no matter how tough the opposition may seem,
have courage still and persevere
Madeleine Albright

Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily.
Never tell yourself this is too much for me.
It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too.
Keep believing and keep on keeping on
Norman Vincent Peale

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another
Walter Elliot

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems
Lee Iacocca
There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks
David Lloyd George
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. Y
ou will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have
Norman Vincent Peale

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second
William James
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year,
but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place.
If I quit, however, it lasts forever
Lance Armstrong
What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available
only when you are in that state of mind in which you know exactly what
you want and are fully determined not to quit until you get it
Alexander Graham Bell
With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable
Thomas Foxwell Buxton
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses
the only strength which can overcome adversity
Albert Schweitzer
The race goes not always to the swift...
but to those who keep on running
Author Unknown
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get
tired of doing the hard work you already did
Newt Gingrich
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from
life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible
Richard M. DeVos
It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop
B.C. Forbes
A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere
and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles
Christopher Reeve
I'm very determined and stubborn.
There's a desire in me that makes me want to do more and more, and to do it right.
Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit
Mary Lou Retton
If you do what you ought to do, when you ought to do it, the time will come when
you can do the what you want to do, when you want to do it
Zig Ziglar

Energy and persistence conquer all things
Benjamin Franklin
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.
He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind
Leonardo da Vinci
Everyone's got it in him, if he'll only make up his mind and stick at it.
None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities.
There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us
Charles M. Schwab
Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination
Karl von Clausewitz
Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.'
Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command,
and better tools will be found as you go along
Napoleon Hill

The rock that is an obstacle in the path of one person becomes a stepping
stone in the path of another
Author Unknown

If you consistently do the best you can, with integrity,
you will regret less and move forward with greater ease
Brian Koslow
The test of character is not persistence when you expect a light at the end of the tunnel.
The true test is performance and persistence when you see no light coming
James A. Ray
It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down
all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles
Claude M. Bristol
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another
Walter Elliott
Nothing ever comes to one that is worth having except as a result of hard work
Booker T. Washington
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal.
My strength lies solely in my tenacity
Louis Pasteur
Either I will find a way, or I will make one
Philip Sidney
The majority of people meet with failure because they lack the persistence
to create new plans to take the place of failed plans
Mark Victor Hansen
There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence.
It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined 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
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman,
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air
John Quincy Adams
I believe that persistent effort, supported by a character-based foundation,
will enable you to get more of the things money will buy
and all of the things money won't buy
Zig Ziglar
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent
Calvin Coolidge
The most essential factor is persistence, the determination never to allow your energy
or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come
James Whitcomb Riley
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough
at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons' determination
Tommy Lasorda

Personal Growth


The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes,
but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker
Helen Keller

Don't read a book and be a follower; read a book and be a student
Jim Rohn
Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn't all a dream?
Ashleigh Brilliant
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure
Paulo Coelho
It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart
Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton

Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent
if no birds sang except those that sang best
Henry Van Dyke

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one
Eleanor Roosevelt

You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.
This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life
Steve Jobs

What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant
Robert Louis Stevenson

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings
Okakura Kakuzo

I am - the two most powerful words in the world,
for whatever we put after them becomes our reality
Susan Howson

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

Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit
Helena Rubinstein

There is real magic in enthusiasm.
It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment
Norman Vincent Peale
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment,
and learn again to exercise his will and his personal responsibility
Albert Schweitzer

If you don't take charge of shaping your own destiny,
others will apply their agenda to you
Eric Allenbaugh
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn
Benjamin Franklin

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A dream is just a dream.
A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline
Harvey Mackay
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm
Henry David Thoreau
What you leave in your children, is more important than what you leave to them
Denis Waitley

The older you get, the more you realize that kindness is
synonymous with happiness
Lionel Barrymore

Yes, there are times when something is legitimately not our fault.
Blaming others, however, keeps us in a stuck state
and is ultimately rough on our own self-esteem
Eric Allenbaugh

Love and magic have a great deal in common.
They enrich the soul, delight the heart.
And they both take practice
Nora Roberts

If you know peace, then you thrive;
if you know contentment, then you are rich
Su Shi
Anger is one letter short of danger!
Denis Waitley

The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post
L. Thomas Holdcroft
Scatter seeds of kindness everywhere you go;
Scatter bits of courtesy - watch them grow and grow.
Gather buds of friendship, keep them till full-blown;
You will have more happiness than you have ever known.
Amy R. Raabe

Be humble, be big in mind and soul, be kindly; you will like yourself
that way and so will other people
Norman Vincent Peale

Faith is the hostess that will not entertain doubt
Jenna Wright
Often we set out to make a difference in the lives of others,
only to discover we have made a difference in our own
Ellie Braun-Haley

Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit
is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
Norman Vincent Peale
We don't know who we are until we see what we can do
Martha Grimes

Deeds not stones, are the true monuments of the great
Motley
Lack and limitation can only exist when we make room for them in our mind
Bob Proctor

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Are you a thermometer or a thermostat?
A thermometer only reflects the temperature of its environment, adjusting to the situation.
But a thermostat initiates action to change the temperature in its environment
Nido Qubein

Winning doesn't always mean being first.
Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before
Bonnie Blair
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the
whole staircase, just take the first step
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Learn how to separate the majors and the minors.
A lot of people don't do well simply because they major in minor things
Jim Rohn

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today
William Allen White

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go
to work on you. If you go to work on your plan,
your plan will go to work on you.
Whatever good things we build end up building us
Jim Rohn

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia
Alexis Carrel

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island
... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life
Walt Disney
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have,
and only you can determine how it will be spent.
Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you
Carl Sandburg
I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over.
Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center
Kurt Vonnegut Jnr
A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you,
than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you
Bob Proctor
The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers
Deepak Chopra
You can't have a better tomorrow if you
are thinking about yesterday all the time
Charles F. Kettering

There is no difficulty that enough love will not
conquer, no disease that enough love will not heal,
no door that enough love will not bridge
Emmet Fox
We can cross the rivers of doubt and discouragement on
the bridge of faith even before we get to them
Sterling W. Sill

When you speak of someone or about someone,
you should speak as though they were in the room with you.
The ears that you speak to today are attached to the
mouth that could relay the message tomorrow
William 'Biddy' Allen

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said
Peter Drucker
If you travel alone, you can probably go faster. But the journey will never
be as rewarding, and you probably won't be able to go as far
John Maxwell
If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches
Carolyn Gilmore
The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see,
and knows what the mind cannot understand
Robert Vallett

Surely it's no coincidence that the word listen
is an anagram of the word silent!
Author Unknown
There are two ways of spreading light -
to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it
Edith Wharton

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward
Soren Kierkegaard

Change comes more from managing the journey than from announcing the destination
William Bridges

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have and only you can
determine how it will be spent. Be careful, lest you let others spend it for you
Rod McKuen
Make sure the outside of you is a good reflection of the inside of you
Jim Rohn
A friend is one who sees through you and still enjoys the view
Wilma Askinas

A hug is like a boomerang, you get it back right away
Bill Keane
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination
Nelson Mandela
Motivation is what gets you started.
Habit is what keeps you going
Jim Rohn
Be very careful what you say to yourself
because someone very important is listening...YOU!
John Assaraf
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is,
not according to what he has
Henry Ward Beecher
Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us,
but in what we make out of what they do to us
Harry Emerson Fosdick
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others
than you can by what others say about him
Leo Aikman
Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself.
Be bold. When you embark for strange places,
don't leave any of yourself safely on shore.
Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory
Alan Alda

There isn't a ruler, a yard stick or a measuring tape in the entire world
long enough to compute the strength and capabilities inside you
Paul J Meyer
The real act of discovery is not in finding new lands, but in seeing with new eyes
Marcel Proust
I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed,
but the spirit in which we face them, that constitutes our comfort
Elizabeth T. King
Dedicate yourself to continuous personal improvement
you are your most precious resource
Brian Tracy
Learning is like rowing upstream, if you stop, you go backwards
Author Unknown
The sad part about life is we tend to comment only on those who do it wrong
and neglect to balance it with praise for those who do it right
Keith Ready
Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant.
It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest
Georgia O'Keeffe
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway
Jerome Cummings
You have to be willing to grow.
Growth is different from something that happens to you:
You produce it. You live it
Bruce Mau
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice
George Eliot
Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back.
Remember that and be very gentle with yourself
Julia Cameron
No one limits your growth but you. If you want to earn more, learn more.
That means you'll work harder for a while; that means you'll work longer for a while.
But you'll be paid for your extra effort with enhanced earnings down the road
Tom Hopkins
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
Success


One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat us
Mary Kay Ash

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong
Leo Buscaglia
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure
Colin L. Powell
Success is not measured by what a person accomplishes,
but by the opposition they have encountered,
and by the courage with which they have maintained
the struggle against overwhelming odds
Charles Lindberg
Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt.
Only by being open to change will you get the most from your talent
Nolan Ryan
Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.
Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be
Harry Emerson Fosdick

Success is not the destination; it's a way to travel
Denis Waitley
Material success may result in the accumulation of possessions:
but only spiritual success will enable you to enjoy them
Nido Qubein
Success is never ending, failure is never final
Dr. Robert Schuller

When we do more than we are paid to do,
eventually we will be paid more for what we do
Zig Ziglar

Positive self-direction is the action plan that all winners in life use
to turn imagination into reality, fantasy into fact, and dreams into actual goals
Denis Waitley
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other
Abraham Lincoln
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt
Henry J. Kaiser

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks
in building any successful venture
Lydia M. Child

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become
Jim Rohn

There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything
Vince Lombardi
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant:
if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome
Ann Bradstreet

As long as you keep yourself centered, and are fulfilling
the purpose you were sent here for, you will succeed and
be prosperous in all areas of life.
Jose Silva
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any other one thing
Abraham Lincoln

The patient person accepts a certain amount of failure knowing
that it is as important a thread in the fabric of life as is success.
Great individuals make great successes out of failure
Denis Waitley
One of the secrets to success is ideas mixed with inspiration
Jim Rohn
Integrity is the essence of everything successful
R. Buckminster Fuller

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it
Maya Angelou
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have
Zig Ziglar

Successful people believe in the validity of their own dreams and goals,
even if dreams are all they have to go on
Denis Waitley
It's usually the last ounce of effort that tips the scales of success
Rick Beneteau

By staying focused and flexible, you will meet and exceed your major life-forming goals.
Success is not a resting-place - it is a launching pad
Denis Waitley
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding.
Hold this picture tenaciously and never permit it to fade.
Your mind will seek to develop this picture!
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

Success is waking up in the morning, whoever you are,
wherever you are, however old or young, and bounding
out of bed because there's something out there you love
to do, that you believe in, that you're good at -
something that's bigger than you are, and you can
hardly wait to get at it again today
Whit Hobbs
There is a direct relationship between joy and effort.
The joy of success is in ratio to the amount of effort expended to achieve it
Denis Waitley
I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give
this game of life everything he's got
Walter Cronkite
There is more to success than reaching goals.
Even a vast fortune can leave you feeling alone, unfulfilled and spiritually poor.
Success must also include a joyful appreciation of living an authentic joy
that pulls us toward the next episode of our life's purpose
Steve Brunkhorst
Success is not for the timid. It is for those who seek guidance,
make decisions, and take decisive action
Jose Silva

The only person who succeeds is the person who is progressively
realizing a worthy ideal. That's the person who says, 'I'm going to become this'
and then begins to work toward that goal
Earl Nightingale

Success is not an entitlement. It has to be earned
Howard Schultz

I learned this, at least, by my experiment:
that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavours to live the life which he had imagined, he will
meet with a success unexpected in common hours
Henry David Thoreau
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an
unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen
Frank Lloyd Wright
To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind.
To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will.
To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed
Bernard Edmonds
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it
Maya Angelou

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner
English poverb

Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands
Zig Ziglar
One that would have the fruit must climb the tree
Thomas Fuller
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough
Og Mandino
Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most
Al Capp
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand,
and the determination that whether we win or lose,
we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand
Vince Lombardi

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things.
When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
Luck is the mindset of success in motion
Rick Beneteau
Success lies in the heart, and is activated by the hope that lies in the dream
Doug Firebaugh
If you work just for the money, you'll never make it,
but if you love what you're doing and you always
put the customer first, success will be yours
Ray Kroc
The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places
Author Unknown
The trouble with many plans is that they are based on the way things are now.
To be successful, your personal plan must focus on what you want, not what you have
Nido Qubein
Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals
above the crowd: a little bit more.
They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more
A. Lou Vickery
In the end, its extra effort that separates a winner from second place.
But winning takes a lot more that that, too.
It starts with complete command of the fundamentals.
Then it takes desire, determination, discipline, and self-sacrifice.
And finally, it takes a great deal of love, fairness and respect for your fellow man.
Put all these together, and even if you don't win, how can you lose?
Jesse Owens
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough
Og Mandino

Even the most daring and accomplished people have undergone tremendous difficulty.
In fact, the more successful they became, the more they attributed their success
to the lessons learned during their most difficult times
Barbara Rose
To laugh often and love much, to appreciate beauty,
to find the best in others, to give one's self ... this is to have succeeded
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only thing that separates successful people from the ones
who aren't, is the willingness to work very very hard
Helen Gurley Brown

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
Harry F. Banks

You always pass failure on the way to success
Mickey Rooney
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful
Author Unknown
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success.
A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
Andrew Carnegie
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live the life he has imagined,
he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours
Henry David Thoreau

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says,
make me feel important. Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life
Mary Kay Ash
I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed.
And the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion
to the number of times I can fail and keep trying!
Tom Hopkins
Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your
success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and
co-workers, and even strangers you meet along the way
Barbara Bush
There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure
Colin L. Powell
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful
Albert Schweitzer

The first principle of success is desire-knowing what you want.
Desire is the planting of your seed
Robert Collier
The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation
with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better
Barbara Pletcher
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish
for yourself. It's what you do for others
Danny Thomas
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success
because they don't know when to quit.
Most men succeed because they are determined to
George E. Allen

You are a success when you have made friends with your past,
are focused on the present, and are optimistic about your future
Zig Ziglar
Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted
David Bly

What ever you do, do it well.
Do it so well that when people see you do it they will want to come back
and see you do it again and they will want
to bring others and show them how well you do what you do
Walt Disney
The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work
Arthur Brisbane
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to,
something to motivate you, something to inspire you
Tony Dorsett
The road to success is always under construction
Author Unknown
The secret of success is constancy to purpose
Benjamin Franklin
Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit
Conrad Hilton
Success is neither magical or mysterious.
Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals
Jim Rohn
No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him;
it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required
that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction
Charles Kendall Adams
Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want
Fran Tarkenton
The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation
Mark Twain
You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing
Dale Carnegie