Motivquotes 1

MotivQuotesVolume 1

365 Positive, Motivational quotes one for each day or study ahead.

“America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better. “

~ Anthony Walton

1©Copyright 2009, MotivQuotes

"To win without risk is to triumph without glory."

~Pierre Corneille


"If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness."

~ Les Brown


"Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't."

~ Richard Bach


"If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'"

~ Rudyard Kipling


"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."

~Lucille Ball


"Meticulous planning will enable everything a person does to appear spontaneous."

~Mark Caine


"It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do."

~ John R. Amos


"It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are."

~ Roy Disney


"Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought."

~ Bernard M. Baruch


"To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there."

Kofi Annan


"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them."

~ Ann Landers


"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


"The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised."

~Norman Vincent Peale


“It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.”

~ Mark Twain


"There's no such thing as Perfection. But, in striving for perfection, we can achieve excellence."

~Vince Lombardi


“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.”

~ Joseph Addison


“But I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, his greatest fulfillment of all he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.”

~ Vince Lombardi


"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


"I've always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best."

~ Akeem Olajuwon


"Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful."

~ Norman Vincent Peale


"The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and their destination."

~John Schaar


"Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change."

~ Eric Golnik


“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.”

~ Dale Carnegie


"A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with the wind."

~John Neal


"It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job."

~ Paul H. Dunn


"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."

~Oprah Winfrey


"If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude."

~Colin Powell


“The best thing you can do is to get good at being you.”

~Dennis the Menace


"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I do not 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 cannot find them, make them."



“Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow people to motivate themselves.”

~ Herman Cain


“You can’t talk your way out of what you’ve behaved yourself into.”

~ Stephen Covey


"Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so."

~Belva Davis


"A person without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive."

~Pearl Bailey


"Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The forest would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best."

~Bernard Meltzer


“All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.”

~ Brian Tracy


“Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.”

~ H. Ross Perot


"In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are."

~ Arnold H. Glasgow


“It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.”

~ Ben Stein


"The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine."

~ Mike Murdock


"The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else."

~ Geoffrey Gaberino


"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."

~Arthur C. Clarke


“Once you know where you're going, focus on the only step you can control -- the one immediately in front of you.”

~ E.R. Haas


"Ideas shape the course of history."

~ John Maynard Keynes


"Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them -- a desire, a dream, a vision."

~ Muhammad Ali


"All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to deprecate imagination."

~ Carl Jung


"In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."

~Eleanor Roosevelt


"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure."

~ Colin Powell


"Be kind whenever possible...It is always possible."

~ Dalai Lama


"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."

~ Douglas Everett


"Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities."

~ Robert H. Schuller


"Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind."

~ Cicero


"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost."

~ Charles Caleb Colton


"It is difficulties that give birth to miracles."

~ Dr. Sharpe


"It matters not what a person is born, but who they choose to be."

~Joanne Kathleen Rowling


“You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. With it, there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis.”

~ Henry Ford


"If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough."

~Edward Everett Hale


"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson


“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


"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today."

~ Stewart B. Johnson


"If you can't, you must. If you must, you can."

~Anthony Robbins


"Believe you can do it. Believing something can be done puts your mind to work for you and helps you find ways to do it."

~George Shinn


“One cannot get through life without pain... What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.”

~ Bernie Siegel


“You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by the way he eats jelly beans.”

~ Ronald Reagan


“There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.”

~Indira Gandhi


“Three rules of work: Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

~Albert Einstein


“Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.“

~ Norman Cousins


"All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a person has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor."

~Vince Lombardi


"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

~William Faulkner


“We may be very busy, we may be very efficient, but we will also be truly effective only when we begin with the end in mind.”

~ Stephen Covey


“Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.”

~ Brian Tracy


"The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self."

~Phillip James Bailey


“Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.”

~Ludwig Wittgenstein


“Formula for success: under promise and over deliver”

~Tom Peters


“ You are the only person in all of creation that has the authority to give anyone else permission to give you a bad day. Just don’t give them permission.”

~ Wayne C. Church


"The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going."

~David Starr Jordan


“Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.”

~ Robert G. Ingersoll


“Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.”

~ Dale Carnegie


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

~Helen Keller


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"Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."

~ Benjamin Franklin

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“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


Opportunity?

“I'm shinin' all my Dad's left shoes for nothin' ! Then I'll charge him a dime each to do the right ones.”

~ Dennis the Menace


" Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."

~T.S. Eliot


" The best way to predict the future is to create it!"

~Peter Drucker


" There is no self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others."

~George Shinn


" My interest is in the future, because I'm going to be spending the rest of my life there."

~Charles Kettering


" It is amazing what can be accomplished, when you don't care who gets the credit.“

~ President Harry Truman


" 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


“Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.”

~ Ronald Reagan


"Be changed and the world around you begins to change.“

~ Dr. Gerald Epstein


“Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you.”

~Zig Ziglar


"Remember, no matter where you go, there you are."

~Earl Mac Rauch


“We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face ... we must do that which we think we cannot.”

~ Eleanor Roosevelt


"If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull the shade."

~Tom Peters


“There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened. We all have a choice. You can decide which type of person you want to be. I have always chosen to be in the first group.”

~ Mary Kay Ash


"There is no better time than right now to be happy."

~Wayne C. Church


"Never place a period where God has placed a comma."

~Gracie Allen


"Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity."

~ Alberta Flanders


"Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems."

~ Nelson Rockefeller


"Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life. Certainly it is worth the risk."

~Leo Buscaglia


"The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect."

~Adam Osborne


"Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak people wait for opportunities; strong people make them.“

~ Orison Swett Marden


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

~Chinese Proverb


“It's kind of fun to do the impossible.”

~ Walt Disney


"The people who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves."

~ Herbert N. Casson


"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he should be, and he will become what he could be."



"Chance favors the prepared mind."

~ Louis Pasteur


“Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.”

~ Vince Lombardi


"We are continually faced with great opportunities which are brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems."

~Margaret Mead


“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.”

~Nelson Mandela


“If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.”

~ Brian Tracy


"If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do."

~George Bernard Shaw


"Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be."

~William Adams


"Always take the high road."

~John Maxwell


“Those who don't understand determination call determination stubbornness or too driven. To be determined is to see it through!”

~ Catherine Pulsifer


"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."

~Judy Garland


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

~ Lou Holtz


“Building a better you is the first step to building a better America”

~ Zig Ziglar


"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.

Try to be better than yourself."

~William Faulkner


"Big jobs usually go to those who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."



"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing."

~ Dale Carnegie


"It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist."

~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin


"What light is to the eyes, what air is to the lungs, what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man."

~Robert G. Ingersoll


"The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break."

~ Rick Hansen


“Two little words that can make the difference: START NOW.“

~Mary C. Crowley


“Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.”

~Ben Stein


“Seek first to understand, then to be understood”

~ Stephen Covey


“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


"For every mountain there is a miracle."



"People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going."

~ Earl Nightingale


“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude”

~ Zig Ziglar


"Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have."



"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort!"

~ Herm Albright


"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily."

~Zig Ziglar


“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”

~John Locke


“Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”



"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified."

~ Samuel Johnson


“Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.”



“When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.”

~ Joe Namath


"There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not."

~ Robert F. Kennedy


"We are often disappointed because of our expectations. Only when you learn to see circumstances as they truly are can you become the architect of improvement."

~ Greg Henry Quinn


“Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.”

~Earl Nightingale


“Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.”

~George Bernard Shaw


“When the world says, ‘Give up,’Hope whispers, ‘Try it one more time.’"

~Author Unknown


“Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.”

~Josh Billings


“Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.”



“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least."

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


“Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never--in nothing, great or small, large or petty--never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”

~Winston Churchill


“Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

~ Brian Tracy


"When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme."

~ Jiminy Cricket


"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


"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."

~ Charles Darwin


“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.”

~ Denis Waitley


"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."

~ Eden Phillpotts


"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning."

~J. B. Priestley


"Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do."

~ Albert Gray


"In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking."

~ Sir John Lubbock


"Success... it's what you do with what you've got."

~ Leroy Van Dyke


"Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith."

~ Henry Ward Beecher


"When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful."

~ Art Fettig


“Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as you mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.”

~ Mary Kay Ash


"Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are."

~ Marianne Williamson


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

~Zig Ziglar


"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

~ Dr. Suess


"I hope that my achievements in life shall be these -- that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need... and that I will have left the earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been."

~ C. Everett Hoppe


"There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life."

~ Frederico Fellini


"Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!"

~Anne Frank


"The only thing that stands between you and what you want from life is simply the will to pursue it and the faith to believe it is possible."

~Richard DeVos


“There is a distinction between achievement and success. Achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success."

~ Helen Hayes


"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."

~Buddha


"Opportunities multiply as they are seized, they die when neglected."

~ John Wicker


“Every one minute you spend in planning will save you at least three minutes in execution.”

~ Crawford Greenwald


"When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity to start all over again, to turn over a new page."

~ Eileen Caddy


“The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance."

~ Brian Tracy


"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."

~ Og Mandino


"The law of cause and effect: If you do what other successful people do, you will eventually get the results that other successful people get."

~ Brian Tracy


"It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has."



“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


“I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.”

~ Og Mandino


"Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out."

~ Frank A. Clark


“No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.”

~ Brian Tracy


“Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise”

~ Stephen Covey


“ If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor”

~ Neil Simon


“Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.”

~ Ben Stein


“The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.”

~ Zig Ziglar


"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values."

~ Ayn Rand


"The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it."

~ John Stuart Mill


"Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal."

~ Vince Lombardi


"Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve."

~ Wilfred Peterson


"The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want."

~ Ben Stein


“Success seems to be connected to action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.”

~ Conrad Hilton


"All that you need in order to have total happiness, fulfillment, and love in your life you already have right now, whoever you are, wherever you are."

~ Dr. Wayne Dyer


"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."



"Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen."

~ Lee Iacocca


"Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly."

~ Unknown


"If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough."

~ Oprah Winfrey


"The more you see yourself as what you'd like to become, and act as if what you want is already there, the more you'll activate those dormant forces that will collaborate to transform your dream into your reality."

~ Dr. Wayne Dyer


“The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.”

~ Marcus A. Antoninus


"Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor."

~ Jackson Brown


“You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.”

~ Zig Ziglar


"There is no passion to be found playing small -in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."

~ Nelson Mandela


"Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You."

~ Dr. Seuss


"There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen."

Dr. Wayne Dyer


“To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius.”



"The key that unlocks energy is desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited."

~ Earl Nightingale


"Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you."

~ Og Mandino


“It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.”

~ Zig Ziglar


"We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic."

~ E. Merrill Root


“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 will tend to take care of themselves.”

~ Dale Carnegie


"Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education."

Burk Hudson


“Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”

~ Vince Lombardi


“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.”

~ Walter Elliott


“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”



“Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”

~Jacob A. Riis


"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself."

~ Alan Alda


"Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries."

~ Corita Kent


"The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed."

~ Gordon Parks


"Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing."

~ Harriet Braiker


"Belief in yourself, belief in your abilities, will override fear almost every time. The only thing we are afraid of is what we are capable of accomplishing."

~ Rich DiGirolamo


"If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own."

~ Stephen Covey


"Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream -- but create!"

~ Robert Collier


“Ya wanna know what makes me sad ? The last ice cream truck of summer.”

~ Dennis the Menace


“The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.”

~ Brian Tracy


“So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.”

~ Og Mandino


"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."

~ Maya Angelou


"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy,wealthy, and wise."

~ Benjamin Franklin


“I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”

~ Helen Keller


“You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.“

~ Albert Camus


"Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive."



"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will."



"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."

~ Albert Einstein


"First comes thought; then organization of that thought into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination."

~ Napoleon Hill


"It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'."

~ Takayuki Ikkaku


“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. “

~ General George S. Patton


"Change before you have to."

~ Jack Welch


“Perseverance is a great element of success; if you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate you are sure to wake up somebody.”

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


"There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves."

~ Arthur P. Stanley


“When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.”

~Walt Disney


"The greatest pollution problem we face today is negativity. Eliminate the negative attitude and believe you can do anything. Replace 'if I can, I hope, maybe' with 'I can, I will, I must."

~ Mary Kay Ash


"You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind."

~ Dale Carnegie


"If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?"

~ Dr. Robert Anthony


"There are moments that, when captured, will redefine who you are forever."

~ Matthew C. Horne


"Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success isn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never -- yes, never -- sell yourself short.“

~ David J. Schwartz


"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."

~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross


"It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others."

~ Orison Swett Marden


"Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else."

~ Les Brown


"The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.“

~ Arnold Schwarzenegger


"To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it."

~ Bunker Hunt


"You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.“

~ Zig Ziglar


"We all have ability. The difference is how we use it."

~ Stevie Wonder


"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

~ Leonardo da Vinci


"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing."

~ Abraham Lincoln


"Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success."

~ Stephen A. Brennan


"I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot... and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that's precisely why I succeed."

~ Michael Jordan


"Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes."

~ Charles Prestwich Scott


"Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul."

~ Marcus Aurelius


"Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts."

~ Ted W. Engstrom


"Efficiency is doing better what is already being done. Effectiveness is deciding what to do better."

~ Peter F. Drucker


“The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.”

~ Brian Tracy


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

~Tom Blandi


"The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time."

~ Joe Girard


“When you're going down the wrong road, you don't need motivation to speed up. You need a clear vision to turn you around.“

~ E.R.Haas


"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy."



"The idea is to make decisions and act on them --to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done."

~ Karen Kakascik


"Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them..."

~ Edgar Watson Howe


“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.”

~ Vincent Van Gogh


"The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams.

~Sidney Madwed


"Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement."

~ Wilfred A. Peterson


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

~ Arthur Ashe


"The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most."

~ Ann Landers


"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


"Life has no limitations, except the ones you make."

~ Les Brown


“Take your time today in making well-informed decisions, but once your decision is made, take action to make it happen -- NOW! “

~ E. R. Haas


“Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes."

~ Lew Gizzard


"Without passion people are a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark."

~ Henri Frederic Amiel


"People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every morning."

~ Dennis the Menace


“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.”

~ Tommy Lasorda


“He's nice to people 'n animals... but you oughta hear him talkin' to a golf ball ! “

~ Dennis the Menace


"Without AMBITION one starts nothing. Without WORK one finishes nothing. The prize will NOT be sent to you. You have to WIN it. The man who knows HOW will always have a job. The man who also knows WHY will always be his boss.



"The beginning is the most important part of the work."

~ Plato


"Be around people who can keep your energy and inspiration high. While you can make progress alone, it's so much easier when you have support.”

~ Dr. Joe Vitale


"If you wish the world to become loving and compassionate, become loving and compassionate yourself. If you wish to diminish fear in the world, diminish your own. These are the gifts that you can give."

~ Gary Zukav


"If you won't be better tomorrow than you were today, then what do you need tomorrow for?"

~ Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav


"If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, "there goes another day of my life, never to return," you will become time conscious."

~ A. B. Zu Tavern


"There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity."

~ General Douglas MacArthur


"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."

~ Epicurus


"If we only knew that we could have anything we wanted we would set more goals."

~ Earl Nightingale


"A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals."

~ Larry Bird


“You can’t build a reputation on what you're going to do.”

~ Henry Ford


"You will never FIND time for anything. If you want time, you must MAKE it."

~ Charles Bixton


“Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.”

~ Brian Tracy


"It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time."

~ Sir Winston Churchill


"Nurture your mind with great thoughts.To believe in the heroic makes heroes."

~ Benjamin Disraeli


"Once you wake up thought in a man,you can never put it to sleep again."

~ Zora Neale Hurston


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

~ Nancy Kerrigan


"If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there's no way around doing the work it takes to get you there."

~ Joyce Chapman


"Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively."

~ Norman Allen


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

~ Frank Outlaw


"The person without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder—waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you."

~ Thomas Carlyle


"It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success."

~ David Feherty


"Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life."

~ Les Brown


“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.”

~ Vince Lombardi


"Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive."

~ Jesse Jackson


"Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection.”

~ Pindar


"It has never been, and never will be, easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination."

~ Marion Zimmer Bradley


"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!"

~ Henry Ford


“Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be. “

~ Og Mandino


“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

~ Aristotle


"Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is started, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance."

~ Robert Collier


"Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us."

~ Earl Nightingale


"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 alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

~ Calvin Coolidge, 30th President


"Action is the real measure of intelligence."

~ Napoleon Hill


"The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before."

~ Steve Young


“Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.”

~Walt Disney


"God doesn't look at how much we do, but with how much love we do it."

~ Mother Teresa


"A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles."

~ Christopher Reeve


"Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality."

~ Les Brown


“Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow.”

~ James Dean


“A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.”

~ Denis Waitley


“The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.”

~ Og Mandino


“Work hard and become a leader; be lazy and never succeed.”

~ Proverbs 12:24


“I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.”

~Lee Iacocca


“You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.”

~ Brian Tracy


“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.”

~ Andrew Carnegie


“The stories of past courage... can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.”

~ John F. Kennedy


“Courage is the first of human qualities, because it is the quality which guarantees all others.”

~ Sir Winston Churchill


“Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or a Shakespeare.“

~ H.F. Hedge


"People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves."

~ Tryon Edwards


“The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.”

~ Thomas J. Watson, Sr


“When upon life's billows you are tempest tossed, When you are discouraged, thinking all is lost, Count your many blessings, name them one by one, And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done. ”

~Johnson Oatman


“Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.”

~ Ronald Reagan


“If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big.”

~ Donald Trump


“I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm.”

~ Henry Truman


"Do something for somebody every day for which you do not get paid.“

~ Albert Schweitzer


“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”

~ Jim Ryun


“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 new hour holds new chances, for new beginnings. The horizon move forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.”

~ Maya Angelou


“You've got to sing like you don't need the money, love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like no one is watching. It's gotta come from the heart, if you want it to work.”

~ Susannah Clark


“Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”

~ St. Francis of Assisi


“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

~ Edmund Burke


"Chance can allow you to accomplish a goal every once in a while, but consistent achievement happens only if you love what you are doing."

~ Bart Conner


"You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself."

~ Katharine Hepburn


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

~ Mildred Mcafee


"We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning."



“When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.”

~ Greg Anderson


“My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out”

~ Ronald Reagan


"Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up."

~ Anonymous


“You can't hit a home run unless you step up to the plate. You can't catch a fish unless you put your line in the water. You can't reach your goals if you don't try.”

~ Kathy Seligman


"If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. Simply stop doing less than excellent work."

~ Thomas J. Watson


“A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.”

~ Vince Lombardi


“Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.”

~ Ronald Reagan


"Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can."

~ Willis Whitney


"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


“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt


"The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it."

~ Mal Pancoast


"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher."

~ Thomas Henry Huxley


"Good, better, best; never let it rest till your good is better and your better is best."

~ Anonymous


"Not all who wander are lost."

~ J. R. R. Tolkien


"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can."

~ John Wesley


"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."

~ Vince Lombardi


"If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it."

~ Ronnie Lott


"We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become."

~ Dr. David Hawkins


"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."

~ Teddy Roosevelt


“Success means fulfilling your own dreams, singing your own song, dancing your own dance, creating from your heart and enjoying the journey, trusting that whatever happens, it will be OK. Creating your own adventure!"

~ Elana Lindquist


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God Bless you!!!~ Wayne C. Church
