1001 Inspirational Quotes

1001 Inspirational Quotes collected by Barbara Hofmeister
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Everyone thinks of changing the world,
But no one thinks of changing himself.- Count Leo Tolstoy

Barbara Hofmeister
Of German origin, now living in Southern Spain, Barbara truly lives the
philosophy she shares with her clients on a daily basis. She knows from her
own experience that even small obstacles can stop us from going after our
dreams.

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My confidence and self esteem used to be very low. Other people would
usually notice before me when I had mastered something new. Quite often
they even had to cajole me into accepting that I had actually done it. Crazy,
but true
This low confidence in my own abilities was the reason I started to live my
dream so late in life even though I have been involved in personal development
since 1978.
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You are not what you think you are, but what your THINK, you are
M.V.Hansen
"Fears are educated into us and can, if we wish, be educated out." Karl
Menninger, Psychiatrist
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you dont have any
problems, you dont get any seeds.- Norman Vincent Peale
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
- Winston Churchill
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
"The pain lies in the difference of what we think should happen and what
actually happens - Vernon Howard
It is in the expectations of happiness that much of happiness itself is found.
And it takes courage to expect happiness.- Earl Nightingale
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. - Alvin Toffler
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George E. Woodberry
"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." Dr.
Wayne Dayer
"It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them the
character, the heart, the generous qualities, progressive ideas." Fyodor
Dostoyevsky, Writer
"Everything is always impossible before it works. Thats what entrepreneurs
are all about doing what people have told them is impossible." R. Hunt
Greene, Venture Capitalist
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless
you're scared." - Eddie Rickenbacker


"It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a
little. Do what you can." - Sydney Smith
"In times of change, the learners will inherit the earth, while the learned find
themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." -
Eric Hoffer
"All big things in this world are done by people who are nave and have an idea
that is obviously impossible." - Dr. Wayne DyerFrank Richards
"Good humor is tonic for the 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
"In the best institutions, promises are kept, no matter what the cost in agony
and overtime." David Ogilvy, Founder Ogilvy & Mather
An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity. - Anonymous
"It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy." Mother Theresa
"Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence in
seeing how you act. If youre in control, theyre in control." - Tom Landr,
Football Coach
"I find that the harder I work the more luck I seem to have." Thomas
Jefferson, US President
"Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit." -Bern Williams
"Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts
can be counted." Albert Einstein, Scientist
"If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you wont, you most
assuredly wont. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching
pad." - Denis Waitley
The strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether
he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul." Rona Barrett


"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way . . . You
become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate
actions, brave by performing brave actions."- Aristotle, Philosopher
"Character the willingness to accept responsibility for ones own life is the
source from which self-respect springs." Joan Didion, Journalist
"It is our choices . . . that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
J. K. Rowling, Childrens Book Author
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really
believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way
to solution.- Dr. David Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big
"Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept
of the odds against them. They make the impossible happen." Robert Jarvik
All things are difficult before they are easy.- John Norley
Beautiful thoughts make beautiful lives, for every word and deed lies in the
thought that prompted it, as the flowers lie in the seed. - A. E. Godfrey
"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at
work worth doing." Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President
"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past,
worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present
moment wisely and earnestly." Buddha
"If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You
have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow
through." - Rosalyn Carter
The Truth is realized in an instant; the Act is practiced step by step. - Zen
saying
"Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women
keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." - Conrad Hilton
"Adversity is the diamond dust heaven polishes its jewels with." Robert
Leighton


"Every artist was first an amateur." Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poet
The genius of money is not knowing everything, but rather, surrounding
yourself with those who do.- Glen Purdy
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things.
Peter Drucker
"You wander from room to room. Hunting for the diamond necklace that is
already around your neck!" - Jalal-Uddin Rumi
"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it
elsewhere." - Agnes Repplier
"We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within
themselves." - Galileo Galilei
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always
do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
Mark Twain, Author
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick
himself up and carry on. - Winston Churchill
Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. Brian Tracy
"If you concentrate on finding what is good in every situation, you will discover
that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the
soul." Harold Kushner Rabbi
Deciding to commit yourself to long-term results rather than short- term
fixes is as important as any decision you'll make in your lifetime. - Anthony
Robbins
"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
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. Wayne Dyer, Author

"The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started." -
Dawson Trotman


"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."
Abraham Lincoln 16th US President
"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours." - Richard Bach
"There are two types of speakers, those that are nervous and those that are
liars. - Mark Twain
"The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress." -
Unknown
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared with
what lies within us." Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Supreme Court Chief Justice
"Self-control is a critical leadership skill. Leaders generally are able to plan
and work at a task over a longer time span than those they lead." - Gerald
Faust
"You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be." -
David Viscott
"Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is as important as the one we pass
on ourselves." - Unknown
"Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not
gold." Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer
"If you let conditions stop you from working, they'll always stop you." - James
T. Farrell
"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." -
T. S. Eliot, Poet
"To win, you have to risk loss." Jean Claude Killy
"Moral courage simply means you do what you think is right without bothering
too much about the effect on yourself." William Slim, British Field Marshal
"Expertise is generic. Point of view is what audiences pay for. -Mark Sanborn,
Past President, National Speakers Association
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow
to call it falsehood. William James, 1842-1910, author


YOU don't have to get it right, YOU just have to get it going. Michael
Bloomberg
"Every human has four endowments--self awareness, conscience, independent
will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom . . .
The power to choose, to respond, to change." - Stephen R. Covey
In all affairs it's a healthy thing to hang a question mark on the things you
have long taken for granted. Bertrand Russell (18721970)
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. Lord Chesterfield,
1694-1773, British Statesman and Diplomat

The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a
problem and turned it into an opportunity." - Joseph Sugarman

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." Aristotle,
Philosopher
"What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple.
Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter." - Peter Drucker
"People living deeply have no fear of death." Anais Nin
"You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's
happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone
who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words
you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime." - Dale
Carnegie
If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was
important." - Arthur Bloch
We keep going back, stronger, not weaker, because we will not allow rejection
to beat us down. It will only strengthen our resolve. To be successful there is
no other way. Earl G. Graves
"To me success can only be achieved through repeated failure and
introspection. In fact, success represents 1% of your work that results from
the 99% that is called failure." Henry Ford
"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes." Oscar Wilde Writer


"We make a "We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we
give." Winston Churchill
Always will I strive to be greater than I am. I must surpass myself. In each
successive act, test, encounter, thought, I will be greater than in the one
previous. I am what I am now; but in an hour I must be more than I am now. In
everything must I exert more power to surpass myself." - unknown

"To win, you have to risk loss." Jean Claude Killy
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things.
Peter Drucker
"Self-control is a critical leadership skill. Leaders generally are able to plan
and work at a task over a longer time span than those they lead." - Gerald
Faust
We are what we repeatedly do." Aristotle
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the
way you play it is free will." Jawaharlal Nehru
There is no point doing well what you shouldn't be doing at all. Make the hard
decisions about what you want and need to do. Then do them, and do them
right. Patricia Fripp
"Half the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not
saying no soon enough." Josh Billings
"Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived
authentically and fully." Frances Moore Lappe
"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
"When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other
people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate." Ann Landers
If you let conditions stop you from working, they'll always stop you." - James
T. Farrell


When a door closes, another one opens. But we look at the closed door with
regret for so long, that we dont see the one that has opened for us.
Unknown
Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all of your
energies on a limited set of targets. Nido Qubein, author, philanthropist
"The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises - it is a set of
challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but
what I intend to ask of them. It appeals to their pride, not their pocketbook -
- it holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of more security." - John
F. Kennedy

"Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem
more afraid of life than death." - James F. Byrnes

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it, you will land among the stars." Les
Brown
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."
Johann von Goethe
"From now on I vow I will try to act the part of a person TEN TIMES BIGGER
than I now am, for by doing, I construct greater powers in my own brain which
will actually build me into such a leader. I refuse to longer be confined by the
shadowy walls which heretofore have cramped me into a narrow sphere. From
this day forth the word "limit" is banished from my mind." - unknown
"A leader must know, must know that he knows and must be able to make it
abundantly clear to those about him that he knows. Clarence B. Randall
Our only limitations are those which we set up in our minds or permit others
to establish for us." Elizabeth Arden
"You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not
say." - Martin Luther, Priest, Scholar, Reformer
"We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. We must learn to explore all
the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing
world. We must learn to welcome and not fear the voices of dissent." J.
William Fulbright, educator, legislator


Ability is what youre capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do.
Attitude determines how well you do it. - Lou Holtz
"The beginning is the most important part of the work." Plato, Philosopher
Wealth is the product of a mans capacity to think. Ayn Rand, 1905-1982,
author, philosopher
"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater one." William Hazlitt,
Essayist
Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at change Dr.
Wayne Dyer
"There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than
the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction." - John F. Kennedy
Thoughts and ideas are the source of all wealth, success, material gain, all
great discoveries, inventions and achievements." - Mark Victor Hansen
"Begin With The End in Mind" - Stephen Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly
Effective People.
"I decided to be the best and the smartest." Oprah Winfrey, entrepreneur,
talk-show host
"Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood. Now is the time to
understand more, so that we may fear less." Marie Curie, Physicist
"You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances,
the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you
have charge of. You don't have charge of the constellations, but you do have
charge of whether you read, develop new skills, and take new classes." Jim
Rohn
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may
be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our
happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our
circumstances." - Martha Washington
"To avoid criticism... Do nothing... Say nothing... Be nothing!" - Elbert Hubbard


The future has several names. For the weak, it is the impossible. For the
fainthearted, it is the unknown. For the thoughtful and valiant, it is the ideal.
Victor Hugo
"Youll never get the best from employees by trying to build a fire under them
youve got to build a fire within them." Bob Nelson
The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental
energies to one problem without growing weary." Thomas Edison
"Would you like me to give you a formula for success? Its quite simple, really.
Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of
success. But it isnt at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can
learn from it, So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because
remember thats where you will find success." Thomas J. Watson
"The noblest search is the search for excellence." -- Lyndon B. Johnson
"Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better." -- Pat Riley
"Do what you love to do and commit yourself to doing it in an excellent
fashion." -- Brian Tracy
"Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul,
the blueprints of your ultimate accomplishments." -- Napoleon Hill
"When you engage in systematic, purposeful action, using and stretching your
abilities to the maximum, you cannot help but feel positive and confident abut
yourself." - Brian Tracy
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a mans character,
give him power. Abraham Lincoln
"Everyone whos ever taken a shower has an idea. Its the person who gets out
of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a
difference." Nolan Buhnell
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content
with your failure. - Abraham Lincoln
Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it."



You haven't failed until you quit trying. - Unknown
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step
forward. - Thomas A. Edison
"Hope, purpose and determination are not merely mental states. They have
electrochemical connections that affect the immune system." Norman
Cousin
Never letting the competition define you. Instead, you have to define
yourself based on a point of view you care deeply about. Tom Chappel
Dreams are extremely important. You cant do it unless you imagine it."
George Lucas
Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new
talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity
that was at hand." - Unknown
"Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what
ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared." David
Ben-Gurion
"To be healthy, wealthy, happy and successful in any and all areas of your life
you need to be aware that you need to think healthy, wealthy, happy and
successful thoughts 24 hours a day and cancel all negative, destructive,
fearful and unhappy thoughts. These two types of thought cannot coexist if
you want to share in the abundance that surrounds us all." Sidney Madwed
In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running; if you stand
still, they will swallow you. William Knudsen Jr.
"The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else.
The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self." - Whitney
Young, Civil rights leader (1921-1971)
Man kann auf seinen Standpunkt stehen, aber man sollte nicht darauf sitzen."
(Erich Kstner, dt. Schriftsteller (sorry, no translation possible)
Success is the proper utilization of failure. - Unknown


"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, American
Boxer
Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction."
Kenichi Ohmae
"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan." Eleanor Roosevelt
"There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until
personal experience has brought it home." John Stuart Mill
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." - Aristole
Everybody thinks of changing humanity, but nobody thinks of changing
himself." Leo Tolstoy
True commitment...is the power of getting out of any situation all that there
is in it. It is arduous, and it is rare." G.K. Chesterton
Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But its only kept a
secret from the person who fails. Robert Half
Don't strive for perfection in items or actions that don't matter.
People are usually paid to get results, not to be perfect. Patricia Fripp
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow
strong by conflict." William Ellery Channing
"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." - Norman Vincent Peale, 1898-1993, Speaker and Author
"A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with a man
is what he makes himself." Alexander Graham Bell
Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?" - Frank Scully
"The biggest mistake people make in life is not making a living at doing what
they most enjoy." - Malcolm S. Forbes
"Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself and yearns for the
impossible." - Eric Hoffer, Philosopher


You're writing the story of your life one moment at a time." - Doc Childre
and Howard Martin
"You'll see it, when you believe it" - Dr. Wayne Dyer
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the
promise of what you shall one day be.- James Allen
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who
hustle. Abraham Lincoln
"Self trust is the first secret of success." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate
on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough." - Oprah Winfrey
Amateur performers operate from delusion, pros operate from objective
reality. The great ones habits, actions, and behaviors are totally congruent
with the size and scope of their ultimate vision. Thats why we call them
champions. Steve Siebold
"It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves." Alexander
Solzhenitsyn, Writer
"Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow is only a vision. But today, well lived,
makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of
hope. Look well, therefore, to this day, for it is life, the very life of life." -
Sanskrit
As I see it, every day you can do one of two things: build health or produce
disease in yourself. Adele Davis
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills that you should avoid.
- Thomas Jefferson Lipton
"People with goals succeed because they know where they are going... It's as
simple as that." - Earl Nightingale
Change your direction and you will change your destiny Mark Victor Hansen
"We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action
always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action." Frank
Tibolt


"The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things
he will try. I would never promote to a top-level job a man who was not making
mistakes...otherwise he is sure to be mediocre." - Peter Drucker
"I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success, but
because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life."
Madeleine Albright US Secretary of State
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who
will get the blame. - Laurence J. Peter US educator & writer (1919 - 1988)
"You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances,
the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you
have charge of. You don't have charge of the constellations, but you do have
charge of whether you read, develop new skills, and take new classes." - Jim
Rohn
A teacher who is attempting to teach, without inspiring the pupil with a
desire to learn, is hammering on a cold iron.- Horace Mann
Remember, no more effort is required in order to aim high in life, to demand
abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty. -
Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich
"The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people
actually worship them." - P. D. Ouspensky
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." Unkown
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a
miracle. The other is as if everything is." - Albert Einstein
Real courage is moving forward when the outcome is uncertain. - Michael
Angier
"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely." - Auguste Rodin,
Sculptor


"There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to
change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that
moment and you start to decline." - Andy Grove, Intel Chairman
Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects
everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject
below their social standing. - Robert Kiyosaki
"Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger." Arnold
Palmer, Golfer
"Ones objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out and get it
over . . . Your problem wont improve with age." Warren Buffett, Investor
"Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of
your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge
and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity
when it occurs." Mario Andretti, Race Car Driver
fainthearted, it is the unknown. For the thoughtful and valiant, it is the
ideal. Victor Hugo
"Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles."
Jawaharal Nehru
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Alva
Edison
Genius without education is like silver in the mine. - Benjamin Franklin
"You are accountable for what you do, and no one else is accountable." Edith
Martin
"Luck is not chance; its toil. Fortunes expensive smile is earned." Emily
Dickinson, Poet
"Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius."
An Wang, Wang Laboratories Founder
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." -
George Orwell


Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're
both important and schools are forgetting one of them. - Robert Kiyosaki
Good judgment is gained through experience. Experience is gained through
poor judgment. Unknown
The most powerful weapon on Earth is the human soul on fire. Ferdinand
Foch
"True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to
surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others, at whatever
cost." - Arthur Ashe Tennis Player
"You can find on the outside only what you possess on the inside." - Adolfo
Montiel Ballesteros
"There is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn
the sound of your own voice." - Po Bronson
Knowledge fueled by emotion equals action. Action is the ingredient that
ensures results. Only action can cause reaction. Further, only positive action
can cause positive reaction. - Jim Rohn
For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have
been'. - John Greenleaf Whittier

"Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally
the one who is willing to do and dare. - Dale Carnegie
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi
"Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality;
man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true." Napoleon Hill
Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should bebecause
sooner or later, if you're posing, you will forget the pose and then where are
you? - Fanny Brice
"Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will
come even more effective action." Peter Drucker
"True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment
of the leaders." Robert Townsend, Executive, Business


It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how
much we give, but how much love we put in the giving. - Mother Teresa
"The moment you let avoiding failure become your motivator, youre down the
path of inactivity." Roberto Goizueta, Coca-Cola CEO
"Youve got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important
than winning or losing." Arthur Ashe, Tennis Player
"I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how
they deal with their subordinates." - Norman Schwarzkopf, US Army General
To attain knowledge, add things every day.
To attain wisdom, remove things every day. - Tao Te Ching
Dont waste your effort on a thing that results in a petty triumph unless you
are satisfied with a life of petty issues." - John D. Rockerfeller, Industrialist
Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were
aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved. - Bill Gates
"If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will
be of no help." John F. Kennedy, 35th US President
"No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden
apple devoured has seeds. It is endless." Bette Davis, Actress
"Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous
decision." Peter Drucker, Educator
"Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to
understanding the problems of running a country." Margaret Thatcher,
British Ex Prime Minister
Use the past as a guide for the future, not as an excuse for not dealing with
it. Patricia Fripp
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a mans character,
give him power." Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President
"A company is an organic, living breathing thing, not just an income sheet and
balance sheet. You have to lead it with that in mind." Carly Fiorina, CEO
Hewlett-Packard


"Dont wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get
youve got to make yourself." Alice Walker, Author
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The
real
excitement is playing the game." Donald Trump
Wealth is not a goal. Wealth is a byproduct. Robert G. Allen

"Money is usually attracted, not pursued." Jim Rohn
Men is a money-making animal with propensity too often interferes with his
benevolence. Herman Melville
There is nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all
hours of his waking day to the making of money only for moneys sake. John
D. Rockefeller

"Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean
the riches possessed by other men." - Charles Caleb Colton

"Most people are to busy earning a living to make any money." Unknown
Pattern your Life after success not indifference. Robert G. Allen
"Knowledge-based innovation has the longest lead time of all innovations."
Peter Drucker, Author, Management Advisor
Knowledge is the antidote to fear. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create
products that teach people how to have money work hard for them. - Robert
Kiyosaki
Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of
education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit
of self-education. - BC Forbes
I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I
had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way
of being. - Oprah Winfrey


We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a
degree or a skill. It demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking
and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress. - Li
Ka Shing

"Dont fight forces use them." Buckminster Fuller, Inventor, Philosopher
"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of
achievement, in the thrill of creative effort." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I
don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about
the other. - Bill Gates
"If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly
at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good Morning' at total
strangers." - Maya Angelou
"Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to
none." - Benjamin Franklin, Statesman
"The Way is not difficult; only there must be no wanting or not wanting." -
Chao-Chou.

"How shall I grasp it? Do not grasp it. That which remains when there is no
more grasping is the Self." - Panchadasi.

"Zen has nothing to grab on to. When people who study Zen don't see it,that is
because they approach it too eagerly." - Ying-An.
"To have courage for whatever comes in life everything lies in that."
Mother Teresa
"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises." -
Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC)
"Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry
out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be
replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his
specific opportunity." - Viktor Frankl



Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude
and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads. - Erica Jong
"The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand
men with a mere wishbone." - William J. Boetcker
"It sounds boring, but anything is easy to start - starting a novel, starting a
business ... it's keeping the thing going that is difficult." - Prue Leith
"Take the negativity, conquer it with indifference, and use it to achieve your
goal, wealth, health and happiness" Rasheed Ali
"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning." Bill
Gates, Microsoft Inc. Company Founder and Chairman
"If you arent fired by enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm." Vince
Lombardi, Football Coach
"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to
another." - G. K. Chesterton, Writer
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come
alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs are people who
have come alive." - Harold Whitman
Be careful what you do, because what you do is what you end up doing.- Hans
Glint

You can do anything you want to do, but you can not do all the things you want
to do. - Hans Glint
Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day.
Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be
funny if it weren't so exciting. - Bill Gates

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of
enthusiasm." Winston Churchill, British statesman
"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone
who will take the bus when the limo breaks down." Oprah Winfrey, talk-show
host, producer


The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops
until you stand up to speak in public. - George Jessel
Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished
listening. - Dorothy Sarnoff
"A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots
spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others
is that it makes them kind themselves." Amelia Earhart, Aviator
"Every idea you present must be something you could get across easily at a
cocktail party with strangers." Jack Welch, ex CEO General Electric
"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties
disappear and obstacles vanish into air." John Quincy Adams, 6th US
president
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishment the scroll;
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul. James Allen
Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as
unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we
had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of
the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances. - Ralph Waldo
Emerson
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor.
It's to enjoy each step along the way. - Wayne Dyer
The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and
seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each
other. - Bill Gates
We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you dont know where
youre aiming, you dont have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that
when I die, someone can say, she cared. - Mary Kay Ash
Each of us needs all of us, and all of us need each of us Jim Rohn


Actually I did not invent the seven habits, they are universal principles and
most of what I wrote about is just common sense. I am embarrassed when
people talk about the Covey Habits, and dislike the idea of being some sort of
guru. - Stephen Covey
No one knows exactly where thought comes from, but it can be said that
thought comes from the same place as whatever it is that beats our heart. It
comes from being alive. - Richard Carlson

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep
is not the most important thing. - Martha Stewart
We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather
than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can
accomplish those goals. - Stephen Covey

This was work (music industry) but it was the awakening to what was to
become a life's passion. - Clive Davis

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of
life. - Charles Darwin

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life. -
Wayne Dyer

It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than
it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth. - Oprah
Winfrey
You are doomed to make choices. This is lifes greatest paradox. - Wayne
Dyer
Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is
a much more sobering and enlightening experience. - Michael Eisner, CEO
Disney

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. - Ralph
Waldo Emerson - Learning

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an
experiment. - Ralph Waldo Emerson


If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real
security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge,
experience, and ability. - Henry Ford
There never was a good war or a bad peace. - Benjamin Franklin

Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough. -
Benjamin Franklin
Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were
aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved. - Bill Gates
It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and
friends and family. - Philip Green
"Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or
other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire
for service will steadily grow stronger and we will make not only our own
happiness, but that of the world at large." - Mahatma Gandhi

In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your
power, and fulfill your potential. It's no different in the financial realm. -
Suze Orman
I love the market, it is my work, my play and my life. - Rene Rivkin
I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by
cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and
in their personal lives. But material success is possible in this world and far
more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others. - Alan Greenspan
Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven't paid the
price to decide what is really important to them. - Stephen Covey
It is decidedly not true that nice guys finish last. - Leo Durocher
Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable
part of the business of life. - Samuel Johnson

There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant
battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be
influenced. How you go about that is the key to success. - Philip Knight


Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation.
Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration
of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew. - Mikhail
Khodorkovsky
People first, then money, then things. - Suze Orman
I think one can achieve a very pleasant lifestyle by treating human beings,
fellow human beings, very well. - Rene Rivkin

How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed
to? - Anthony Robbins
The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not
likely to make money nor find much fun in life. - Charles Schwab

Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken. - Donald
Trump
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. - Ralph
Waldo Emerson
The world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something
back. - Ted Turner
It seems that we have it backward in our society. We tend to look up to
people who are under a great deal of stress, who can handle loads of stress,
and those who are under a great deal of pressure. - Richard Carlson
A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry
about the what-ifs of life. - Suze Orman
I'm convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most
people will acknowledge. I also know the price that must be paid. It's a real
struggle to do it. It requires visualization and affirmation. It involves living a
life of integrity, starting with making and keeping promises, until the whole
human personality the senses, the thinking, the feeling, and the intuition are
ultimately integrated and harmonized. - Stephen Covey

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our
past. We have the power of choice. - Stephen Covey


What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on
other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference,
not only in your own life, but in other people's lives. - Oprah Winfrey
You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough
other people get what they want. Zig Ziglar
"You will become as great as your dominant aspiration...if you cherish a vision
in your heart, you will realize it. - James Allen
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in not giving up.
Tommy Lasorda
"The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose." John McEnroe,
tennis champion
"You cant help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top
yourself." H. Norman Schwarzkopf, US Army General
"Youll never get the best from employees by trying to build a fire under them
youve got to build a fire within them." - Bob Nelson
"In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the
windshield." Warren Buffet, Financier
The way this works is, you do the thing that scares you most and you get the
confidence afterwards!" George Clooney, 3 Kings.
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. - Herbert Spencer
Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself. - Chinese Proverb
"If you dont sell, its not the product thats wrong its you." Esteee Lauder
"A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He
inspires the power and energy to get it done." - Ralph Lauren, Designer and
Businessman
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and
leave a trail." Waldo Emerson
"We know what we are, but know not what we may be." William Shakespeare


"It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or
four years down the road."- Kareem Abdul-Jabar (b. 1947), American
collegiate and NBA basketball player
"Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original
dimensions" - Oliver Wendell Holmes
Give a lot of thought to the future because that is where you are going to
spend the rest of your life. - Charles Kettering
"Champions arent made in gyms. Champions are made from something they
have deep inside them a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill
and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill." Muhammad Ali, box
champion
"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." - Bertrand Russell
"Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim
upstream." W. C. Fields, Actor and Comedian
"You must avoid the investigation trap you cant postpone tough decisions by
studying them to death." Percy Barnevik, executive
"Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get." Ray
Kroc, McDonalds founder
"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together." Vincent
Van Gogh, artist
"Never assume the obvious is true." Albert Einstein
"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men of talent. Genius will not . . .
the world is full of educated derelicts." Calvin Coolidge, 30th US President
"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." Marie Curie,
physicist
"If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to
patient attention than to any other talent." Isaac Newton, mathematician,
physicist


"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity." - George S. Patton
I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I
had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way
of being. - Oprah Winfrey
Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to
oxygen on the "gotta have it" scale. - Zig Ziglar
"Begin with praise and honest appreciation. Call attention to peoples mistakes
indirectly. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person.
Ask questions instead of giving direct orders . . . Make the fault easy to
correct. Make the other person happy about doing what you suggest." Dale
Carnegie
"Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose, so we dont try for
the next hill. Maya Angelou
"As long as youre going to think anyway, think big." Donald Trump, Real
Estate giant
To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses
both. - St Catherine of Siena
I take advice from five wise men: Mr Who, Mr Where, Mr What, Mr Why and
Mr When Unknown
"Good plans shape good decisions. That's why good planning helps to make
elusive dreams come true." - Lester R. Bittel
Concentration, in its truest, unadulterated form, means the ability to focus
the mind on one single solitary thing. - Komar

"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help
create the fact." - William James, psychologist
The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental
energies to one problem without growing weary." Thomas Edison
Reading without reflection is like eating without digesting. Edmund Burke



"The road of success is like running up an escalator going down, you need to
keep running, if you walk, you stand still, if you stop you are going down!"
Anneloes Zuiderveen
Authority does not make you a leader It gives you the opportunity to be one.
- Anonymous
"If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you
disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a
compromise." - Robert Fritz
"Action may not always be happiness, but there is no happiness without
action." Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman
"Most of the important things in the world have been accompanied by people
who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." Dale
Carnegie, author
Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in
another's trouble, Courage in your own - Adam Lindsay Gordon
The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind
forward. - Igor Sikorsky
"Would you like me to give you a formula for success? Its quite simple, really.
success. But it isnt at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can
learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because
remember thats where you will find success." Thomas J. Watson
I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going
process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to
touch somebody's life. - Oprah Winfrey
I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories
across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in
your business life if your home life is in shambles. - Zig Ziglar
"The biggest mistake people make in life is not making a living at doing what
they most enjoy." - Malcolm S. Forbes


There are a thousand excuses for every failure but never a good reason.
Mark Twain
"We cannot cross the sea merely by staring at the water." - Rabindranath
Tagore
The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming.
You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human
potential and stretch yourself to the limit." Jim Rohn
"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at
night, and in between he does what he wants to do." Bob Dylan
"The noblest search is the search for excellence." - Lyndon B. Johnson
"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than
myself." Famous Ballet Dancer
Writing is the gold standard of communication. Learn to do it well and see
more gold." -- Chris Widener
"Indecision is the thief of opportunity." -- Jim Rohn
"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 something, at whatever cost, must be attained."
Marie Curie
"The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most
dangerous, human attribute." Dero Ames Saunders
"Would that I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people
to throw me all their wasted hours." Bernard Berenson
"Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better." - Pat Riley
"Do what you love to do and commit yourself to doing it in an excellent
fashion." - Brian Tracy
"You dont get to choose how youre going to die. Or when. You can only decide
how youre going to live. And that is Now." Joan Baez Singer


"Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed." - Michael
Pritchard
The first law of success is concentration - to bend all the energies to one
point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right or to the
left. - William Mathews
"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong
enough." -Og Mandino
If you are never scared, embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take
chances. - Julia Soul
"Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it." Mark Twain,
author
"One person with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson, US President
"All life is a chance. So take it! The person who goes furthest is the one who is
willing to do and dare." Dale Carnegie
Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate that
progress is being made, wheels are turning, you are moving toward your goals.
Beware when you have no problems. Then you've really got a problem . . .
Problems are like landmarks of progress. - Scott Alexander
The world always steps aside for people who know where theyre going. -
Miriam Viola Larsen
"They can conquer who believe they can." Virgil, Roman Poet
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable
will. - Mahatma Gandhi
The secret of mans being is not only to live but to have something to live for.
Without a stable conception of the object of life, man would not consent to go
on living. The Grand Inquisitor in Dostoyevskys The Brothers Karamazov
"If everybody else is doing it one way, theres a good change you can find your
niche by going in exactly the opposite direction." Sam Walton, Wal-Mart
Founder


"Audiences don't care what you've done. They care about what you've
learned. - Mark Sanborn, Past President, National Speakers Association
"All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in
that which is small." - Lao-Tzu
"It is the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and
whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death." -
Thomas Paine
"You will become as great as your dominant aspiration...if you cherish a vision
in your heart, you will realize it. - James Allen, As You Think.
"Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul,
the blueprints of your ultimate accomplishments." - Napoleon Hill
Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make
them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce
their own image on mens souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth and
quiet, and comfort the hearer. Pascal
People have to be responsible for their own thoughts, so they have to learn to
control them. It may not be easy, but it can be done. First of all, if we dont
want to think certain things we dont say them. We dont have to eat
everything we see, and we dont have to say everything we think. So we begin
by watching our words and speaking only with purpose - Rolling Thunder
I didn't want to say "No" because I didn't want people to think I'm not nice.
And that, to me, has been the greatest lesson of my life: to recognize that I
am solely responsible for it, and not trying to please other people, and not
living my life to please other people, but doing what my heart says all the
time. - Oprah Winfrey
"You will succeed best when you put the restless, anxious side of affairs out
of mind, and allow the restful side to live in your thoughts." - Margaret Stowe
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please
everyone." - Bill Cosby Comedian, Actor and Author
"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir mens blood . . . Make big
plans, aim high in hope and work." Daniel Burnham, Architect


"It is not your part to guide or supervise the creative process. All you have to
do with that is to retain your vision, stick to your purpose, and maintain your
faith and gratitude." - Wallace D. Wattles

Millions long for immortality and they do not know what to do with themselves
on a lonely Sunday afternoon." Murphy
"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
Do unto others as they would have you do unto them. Dr. Tony Alessandra
"How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money.
Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever." - David Norris
"If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with
doubts, and we are patient in them, we shall end in certainties. - Sir Francis
Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, statesman
"When you engage in systematic, purposeful action, using and stretching your
abilities to the maximum, you cannot help but feel positive and confident abut
yourself." - Brian Tracy
"If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real
security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge,
experience and ability." Henry Ford
Dont treat others the way you want to be treated. Treat others the way
THEY want to be treated. Vic Johnson
You control your life by controlling your time. Conrad Hilton
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a mans character,
give him power. Abraham Lincoln
"I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days." Lance
Armstrong
"Few cases of eye strain have been developed by looking on the bright side of
things." Unknown
"Enthusiasm spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment."
Norman Vincent Peale, Clergyman, Author


"Property may be destroyed and m0ney may l0se its purchasing power; but
character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand
under all conditions." - Roger Babso
"I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality,
order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one
subject at a time." - Charles Dickens
"When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were to the very
last minute a chance to lose it." Dwight Eisenhower, 34th US President
"When its time to make a decision about a person or problem, trust your
intuition (and) act." Bud Hadfield, executive
"Everyone whos ever taken a shower has an idea. Its the person who gets out
of the shower, dries off and does something about it, who makes a
difference." Nolan Buhnell
A man that cannot be bothered to do little things, cannot be trusted to do
big things." Lawrence Bell, aviation executive
"The future of civilization depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and
hopelessness that characterizes the thoughts of men today." - Albert
Schweitzer
"Big problems arise from small problems. The wise takes care of all his small
problems. Thus he has no problems." - Tao
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are
content with your failure. - Abraham Lincoln
"Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance
towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to
be observed from each new vantage point." - Harold B. Melchart
Imagination grows by exercise W. Somerset Maugham
If opportunity doesnt knock, build a door. Milton Berle
Common Sense is not very common. Albert Einstein
"Good will is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or
destroy." Marshall Field


"Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts;
for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in
ignorance." - William Wirt
"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be
overcome." Samuel Johnson
Success is a journey, not only a destination. The doing is often more
important than the outcome. Arthur Ashe
"Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always." - Albert
Schweitzer
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and
attended to with diligence. Abigail Adams
"The real voyage of discovery consists of not in seeking new landscapes but in
having new eyes." Marcel Proust
Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. This is the only secret
to style. - Matthew Arnold
"If you think you can or if you think you cant either way, you are right!"
Henry Ford
All life is a chance. So take it! The person who goes furthest is the one who is
willing to do and dare. Dale Carnegie
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. Robert
Louis Stevenson
We as human beings have the power of attitude and that attitude determines
choice, and choice determines results Jim Rohn
"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something
you design for the present." Zig Ziglar
fainthearted, it is the unknown. For the thoughtful and valiant, it is the ideal.
Victor Hugo


"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." - Annie Dillard
"Reading is a means of thinking with another persons mind; it forces you to
stretch your own." Charles Scribner Jr., Publisher
You must learn how to handle difficulty; it always comes after opportunity.
Jim Rohn
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than
anything else, will affect it's successful outcome, -William James
No great performance came from holding back Don Greene
"To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day,
to make you somebody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any
human being can fight; and never stop fighting." E. E. Cummings, American
Poet & Author
"When you are clear on what you want in your life, it will show up and only to
the extent you are clear." - Janet Bray Attwood
"Prosperity is not just having things. It is the consciousness that attracts the
things. Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just having money or
things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or
things." - Eric Butterworth

Leadership rests not only on outstanding ability. It also rests on commitment,
loyalty and pride. It rests on followers who are ready to accept guidance.
Leadership is the ability to direct people and more important to have those
people accept the direction. Vince Lombardi
Transform challenge into choices, obstacles into opportunity, and tragedy into
triumph Randy Gage.
Even if youre on the right track, youll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers
"What we see depends mainly on what we look for." - Sir John Lubbock
Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it." - Unknown


Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a
need for change, you arent defeated by it. Youre learning from it. Bill
Gates
Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your
courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave." - Mary Tyler Moore
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the
bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win
when the match is even. Muhammad Ali
You haven't failed until you quit trying. - Unknown
"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is hacking at
the roots." - Henry David Thoreau
If we have our own why of life, we can clear almost any how. Friedrich
Nietzsche
There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be
getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and
wait for them to self-destruct. It never fails. Richard Rybolt
To earn more, you must learn more. Brian Tracy

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting
different results."- Benjamin Franklin (and often attributed to Einstein, as
well)
If you are not committed to getting better at what you are doing, you are
bound to get worse. - Pat Riley, The Winner Within
"Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don't wish for fewer
problems, wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge, wish for more
wisdom." Mr. Shoaf, mentor of Jim Rohn
"Develop your willpower so that you can make yourself do what you should do,
when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not." - Brian Tracy


Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong,
because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward
with your life. Dr. David M. Burns
Integrity makes my job easier. Its deception and dishonesty that requires
so much diligent effort. Bobby Bowden
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind.
Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small
amount of heat. Napoleon Hill
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. Ben Franklin
For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the
whole truth to know the worst and provide for it. Patrick Henry
You are what you are today because of the choices you made in the past.
Jim Rohn
"A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind." Albert
Szent-Gyorgi
Everything comes to he who hustles while he waits. Thomas Edison
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen that has merely laid an egg cackles as if
she laid an asteroid. Mark Victor Hansen
"You can't dig a new well by digging the same hole deeper." - Edward De Bono
"Change your mind ... and EVERYTHING changes." Unknown
Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing.
Albert Schweitzer
The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.
Dennis Green
It is amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares about who gets
the credit. Robert Yates


Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not
lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about
remedying them every day begins with the task a new. St Francis de Sales
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."
Johann von Goethe
We want to reach for the stars and not merely across the table. Denise
Magyar
"Positive anything is better than negative nothing." Elbert Hubbard

"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours." - Richard Bach
It is not the mountain that we conquer, but ourselves. Edmund Hillary
Together, one person, one course at a time we can transform the world. - T.
Harv Eker
Find the good. Its all around you. Find it, showcase it and youll start believing
in it. Jesse Owens
We must never allow our mediocre successes to cloud our future
expectations. M. Avis
We are sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time
ago. - Warren Buffett
"Positive feedback is the breakfast of champions." - Ken Blanchard
Success is the proper utilization of failure. - Unknown
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." - Dale
Carnegie
"Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-
term values." - Joshua L. Liebman
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour. -
Unknown


Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they cant
lose. Bill Gates
Remember, when you were made a leader, you werent given a crown, you were
given a responsibility to bring out the best in others. For that, your people
need to trust you. - Jack Welch, former CEO, General Electric
Employ your time in improving yourself by other mens writings so that you
shall come easily by what others have labored hard for. - Socrates
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step
forward. Thomas A. Edison
Pessimist: A person who says that O is the last letter in ZERO, Instead of
the first letter in word OPPORTUNITY. - Unknown
"You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will
best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its
environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are
they holding you back?" -- W. Clement Stone
"Hope, purpose and determination are not merely mental states. They have
electrochemical connections that affect the immune system." Norman
Cousin
Concentration, in its truest, unadulterated form, means the ability to focus
the mind on one single solitary thing. - Komar

Dont give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love,
inspiration and hard work. I dont think you can go wrong. Ella Fitzgerald
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobodys going to know
whether you did it or not. - Oprah Winfrey
"There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time
to do the most important thing." - Unknown
When you go through the bottom of one thing, you wind on the top of
another. - Unknown
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. - Alvin Toffler


The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort,
but where he stands in time of challenge and controversy - Martin Luther
King Jr.
Dreams are extremely important. You cant do it unless you imagine it." -
George Lucas
Imagination is more important than knowledge Albert Einstein
"The wisest mind has something yet to learn." George Santayana, Philosopher
and Poet
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their
lives by altering their attitudes of mind. William James
Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new
talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the
opportunity that was at hand." - Unknown
Nothing is a more powerful agent for attracting and keeping talented people
than a clear vision, especially if the organization is living that vision and
achieving its goals. Gary Hoover
Nothing works until you do. - Mike Brescia
The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor. Robert
Collier
"Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what
ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared." David
Ben-Gurion
Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory. Douglas
MacArthur
my father treated me with very stern discipline: he trusted me. Ive got to
see the trust through. He trusted me. I trust other people. And they do the
job. - Robert Galvin, Jr., former CEO, Motorola
I have never seen pessimists make anything work, or contribute anything of
lasting value. Harry Truman


"To be healthy, wealthy, happy and successful in any and all areas of your life
you need to be aware that you need to think healthy, wealthy, happy and
successful thoughts 24 hours a day and cancel all negative, destructive,
fearful and unhappy thoughts. These two types of thought cannot coexist if
you want to share in the abundance that surrounds us all." Sidney Madwed
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
Honore de Balzac
"The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind.
Weak desires bring weak results." Napoleon Hill
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as
though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that." -
Goethe, in Philosophy
In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running; if you stand
still, they will swallow you. William Knudsen Jr.
Attitude determines choice, and choice determines results. Jim Rohn
"Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of
making excuses." George Washington Carver, Botanist
Life has no special time of its own. Its hour is now always. Albert
Schweitzer
"The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else.
The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self." - Whitney
Young, Civil rights leader (1921-1971)
So, I learn from my mistakes. Its a very painful way to learn, but without
pain, the old saying is, theres no gain. Johnny Cash
"There is no inevitability in history except as men make it." Felix
Frankfurter, US Supreme Court Justice
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent,
but the one most responsive to change. Charles Darwin
"The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none." Thomas Carlyle, Essayist,
Historian


If an individual wants to be a leader and isnt controversial, that means he
never stood for anything. - Richard M. Nixon
"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, American
Boxer
"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd." -
James Crook
"You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety." -
Abraham Lincoln, 16th US PresidentMaslow
Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction."
Kenichi Ohmae
"Good Leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not
at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the
success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that
gives their work meaning." - Warren Bennis
"The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such
a way that others will wish to join us." Hubert Humphrey, former US Vice
President,
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a
subject. Thomas Mann
"There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until
"When will transformation begin? It starts at the moment you decide to
change. That's why it's so vital for you to stop for a moment and come face to
face with one aspect of your life that needs drastic action immediately." --
Neil Eskelin
"We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war
but the positive affirmation of peace." Martin Luther King, Jr.
There are risks and cost to a program of action, but they are far less than
the long-term risks and cost of a comfortable program of inaction. John F.
Kennedy


"Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it is the man who
invented the meter who made the money." - Earl Warren
I dont measure my success every day. I measure how much we have left to
do. In that sense, business success is just a form of persistence. Daniel
Snyder
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." - Aristole
Give your workers more sophisticated jobs along with better tools and youll
discover your employees will become more responsible and bring more
intelligence to their work. Bill Gates
"We are here to add what we can do, not to get what we can from life."
William Osler, Physician
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves,
some turn up their noses and some dont turn up at all Sam Ewing
Everybody thinks of changing humanity, but nobody thinks of changing
himself." Leo Tolstoy
If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of
opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way. Jane Goodall
We must have long term goals, to keep us from being frustrated by short-
term failures." Charles C. Noble
"A great flame follows a little spark." Dante Alighieri, Poet
"Everything we call a trial, a sorrow, or a duty, believe me... the gift is there
and the wonder of an overshadowing presence." - Fra Giovanni
"Someone once asked me what is the hardest part about creating what you
want? My reply was 'Learning to stop figuring out how you will get what you
want. Jim Rohn
"If you try to figure out how you will get what you want you will limit yourself
to what your ego or conditioned mind can do. The key to creating what you
want is to turn your desire or your goal over to your subconscious which is
connected to the Universal Mind or Universal Subconscious and let it bring the
goal to you and you to your goal." - Dr. Robert Anthony



"The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer... He can
visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it
happen." - Robert Schwartz

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles,
some act of vision, of faith, of desire. - Martha Graham

Practice is the best of all instructors. - Publius Syrus
Either do or do not. There is no Try. - Yoda (Jedi Master)
"Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on." -
Maxwell Maltz
"Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate."
Unknown
"I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become." - Carl Jung
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. William Butler
Yeats, Irish Poet and Dramatist
"The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators."
Edward Gibbon, Historian
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated
simple, awesomely simple, thats creative. - Charles Mingus
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness. - Chinese
Proverb
"If opportunity doesnt knock, build a door." Milton Berle, Actor
True commitment...is the power of getting out of any situation all that there
is in it. It is arduous, and it is rare." G.K. Chesterton
Employ your time in improving yourself by other mens writings so that you
shall come easily by what others have labored hard for. - Unknown
"The price of greatness is responsibility." Winston Churchill
We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a
human journey. -Stephen Covey


Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But its only kept a
secret from the person who fails. Robert Half
Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and
to let him know that you trust him Booker T. Washington
"The virtue of man ought to be measured, not by his extraordinary exertions,
but by his everyday conduct." - Blaise Pascal
"People who spend a week choosing a furniture refinisher will sign up with the
first [financial planner] who calls. People who circle junkyards for matching
hubcaps will buy mutual funds without reading the prospectus. People who
check the expiration date on cottage cheese wouldn't think of investigating
the background of their broker. They know next to nothing about whether the
broker has made or lost money for clients, whether he's been reprimanded or
sued, or how long he's been in the investment business." ~ A Fool and His
Money, by John Rothchild, 1988
Don't strive for perfection in items or actions that don't matter.
People are usually paid to get results, not to be perfect. Patricia Fripp
Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have a habit of making
excuses. George Washington Carver
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can
go - T.S. Eliot
"If I looked at your life, would I get a sense of what's truly important to you?
Do you spend your time doing what matters? Your life needs to be a reflection
of your values. What does your life reflect about you? ASK someone today and
get another perspective." - Kristin Taliaferro
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people dont
recognize them. - Ann Landers
"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end, Its not a day
when you lounge around doing nothing; its when youve had everything to do,
and youve done it. Margaret Thatcher
Ones philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the
choices one makesand the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt


You have tremendous reservoirs of potential within you, and are quite capable
of doing anything you set your mind to. All you must do is figure out HOW you
can do it not if. Bob Proctor
"The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in
having no goal to reach." - Benjamin Mays
Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until its done right.
Walt Disney
strong by conflict." William Ellery Channing
If a man goes into business with only the idea of making money, the chances
are he wont. Joyce Clyde Hall
"Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning.
Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual
path, a path where negative emotions have no use." - Sai Baba
If a man writes a better book, preaches a better sermon or makes a better
mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world
will make a beaten path to his door. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of change consists in spending your energy on creating the new
and not in fighting the old. - Dan Millman
It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, and
esteem to all." George Washington, First US President
I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or
misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. - Martha
Washington
"Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence." - Michael O'Brien
"Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in
what they can do." - Joan L. Curciopeople."
"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once." -
Unknown


"People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can
do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of
success." - Norman Vincent Peale, 1898-1993, Speaker and Author
One of the marks of excellent people is that they never compare themselves
with others. They only compare themselves with themselves and with their
past accomplishments and future potential. Brian Tracy
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. -
Mohandas Gandhi
To have no vision of your own means living the vision of someone else -
Laurie Beth Jones
The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it. If you cant ignore it,
top it. If you cant top it, laugh at it. If you cant laugh at it, its probably
deserved. -Joseph Russell Lynes
"A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all."
Rita Mae Brown
"For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the
whole truth to know the worst and provide for it." - Patrick Henry,
Statesman
Play every game as if you job depends on it. It just might. - Casey Stengel
Use the past as a guide for the future, not as an excuse for not dealing with
it. - Patricia Fripp
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill." Samuel Johnson
"What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of
you." Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Playwright and Philosopher
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. - J.F. Kennedy
"A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with a man is
what he makes himself." Alexander Graham Bell
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. - Hugh White
The heart has its reasons, which reason can not understand. - Blaise Pascal


"What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that
you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard
work and a certain sense of purpose." Margaret Thatcher, Ex UK Prime
Minister
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they
may start a winning game. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?" - Frank Scully
"The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and
dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore." Dale Carnegie
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. - Anne
Brads
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without
hope and confidence." Helen Keller
To bring one's self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish
things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that
everyone has. When this battle is won for all time, then everything is easy." -
Thomas A. Buckner
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he
hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however
measured or far away.
"Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power." William James,
Philosopher, Psychologist
"It doesn't matter what is happening to the economy, government or your
industry; it matters what is going on in your imagination. If you've got a rich
imagination you're going to have a rich experience." - Mark Victor Hansen
"The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to
appear." - Socrates
Spectacular achievements are always preceded by painstaking preparation.
Roger Staubach


We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we
forget that the inner value. The rapture that is associated with being alive is
what it's all about." - Joseph Campbell
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches,
but to reveal to him his own." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Those who will lead in this life must start against the crowd and lead
forcefully until the crowd sees the results and changes their direction." -
Chris Widener
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 man has taken the
first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your
first." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry
and his diligence, he perseveres, and infallibly prevails at last." - Lord
Chesterfield
"Outstanding leaders have a sense of mission, a belief in themselves and the
value of their work." - Brian Tracy
Truth is a hard master and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems."
Ellis Peters
'I didn't have 10,000 failures; I learned 10,000 ways that didn't work. -
Thomas Edison when he went through 10,000 prototypes.
"Before a painter puts brush to canvas he sees his picture mentally ... If you
think of yourself in terms of a painting, what do you see? ... Id the picture one
you think worth painting? ... You create yourself in the image you hold in your
mind." - Thomas Dreier
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistake
and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and
knowledge. - Igor Stravinsky


"I believe the time we really look big in a child's eyes is when we go to them
and apologize for our mistakes and we say, 'I was wrong. Will you forgive
me?'" -- Kevin Leman
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anais Nin
"If you don't risk anything, you risk even more."- Erica Jong

"The only way to fail is to fail to try." - Jacqueline McLarens
"Whatever your talent is, you should craft it, nourish it and build on it. It is
the 'niche talent' that will take you to the top of your field. - Mark Victor
Hansen
There are those who work all day, those who dream all day, and those who
spend an hour dreaming before setting to work to fulfill those dreams. Go into
the third category because there's virtually no competition" - Steven J. Ross
To keep yourself honest, imagine a camcorder recording all your decisions.
Lawrence MacGregor Serven
"Learn to differentiate between what is truly important and what can be dealt
with at another time." Mia Hamm, Soccer Champion
I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to mefailure
always made me try harder next time. Michael Jordan
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." - Henry Ford
"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can
sincerely try to help another without helping himself." Ralph Waldo Emerson
A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine." - American
proverb
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I
will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them and the bad points of
the other and correct them in myself. - Konfuzius
If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain." Jimmy Durante
To Make Progress You Must Actually Get Started. The key is to take a step
today. - Jim Rohn


Money is a reward you receive for the service you render. The more valuable
the service, the greater the reward. Bob Proctor
"Act as if you were already happy, and that will tend to make you happy."
Dale Carnegie, Motivational Coach and Writer
"Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a mental state." - Mike
Todd
"Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was." Robert Louis
Stevenson
"We are continuously faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as
insoluble problems." Lee Iacocca
"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is
confirmed desperation." - Thoreau
"We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to
do right." - Nelson Mandela
but to reveal to him his own." Benjamin Disraeli
circumstances." Martha Washington
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."
Aristotle
"Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its
enemies." Robert Kennedy, US Senator
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed,
but I am bound to live by the light that I have. Abraham Lincoln
All that did matter was the possession of vision, determination, and quickness
to see an opening and to seize a chance. Success and fortune seldom came
stalking up one's home street, uninvited, I told myself. No, you had to go out
and meet them more than halfway." - Thomas Lipton


Failure is perhaps the greatest key to success. More specifically, your
response to failure is the real key. Growth in an organization only comes with
stretching and risk taking." - Andrew Harve
"Assumption is the mother of mistakes." - Angelo Donghia
"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act, but I believe in
a fate that falls on men unless they act." G.K. Chesterton
At the end of each day, you should play back the tapes of your performance.
The results should either applaud you or prod you." - Jim Rohn
"It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to
overpower an entire army of negative thoughts." - Unknown
"Great minds have purposes, others have wishes." Washington Irving
People are unreasonable, illogical, and self centered. Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good
anyway. If you are unsuccessful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and
frank anyway. Robert H. Schuller, Minister
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is
what he makes himself. - Alexander Graham Bell
"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they cant
lose." Bill Gates, Microsoft Founder
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action."
Demosthenes
"You cannot tailor make your situation in life, but you can tailor make your
attitudes to fit those situations." - Zig Ziglar
In real estate, its location, location, location. In business, its
differentiate, differentiate, differentiate. - Robert Goizueta
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important
than any other." Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President
Persistence: "Fall down seven times; Stand up eight." - Japanese Proverb


"Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy." Isaac
Newton, physicist
"You can't push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb himself." -
Andrew Carnegie
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor." - John Milton
Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to
myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really
becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can
do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at
the beginning." - Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948, Indian Political Leader
"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose."
Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th US President
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security." - Gail Sheehy
Everything depends upon execution; having just a vision is no solution."
Stephen Sondheim
The worst thing in your life may contain seeds of the best. When you can see
crisis as an opportunity, your life becomes not easier, but more satisfying.
Joe Kogel
"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds
left undone." Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author
"Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely
catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter.
They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like
enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're
misunderstood." - Charles Swindoll
Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to
difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods." Denis
Waitley
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they
may start a winning game." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Youre never a loser until you quit trying." Mike Ditka, Football Player, Coach


Do, today, everything that you CAN do today. Do everything you do in the
most perfectly successful manner in which it can be done. W.D. Wattles
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until
"There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and
Laziness." Franz Kafka, Writer
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you
must see the world. - George Bernard Shaw
"It is not Gods will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make
ourselves happy." Immanuel Kant, Philosopher
Remember always that it is your concentrated purpose [determination] to
reach what you want, your faith that you WILL reach what you want, and your
doing successfully everything you have to do which keeps you moving towards
your goal. W. D. Wattles
One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be
taken away unless it is surrendered." - Michael J. Fox
"Not only strike when the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking." Oliver
Cromwell
"If there are things you dont like in the world you grew up in, make your own
life different." Dave Thomas, Wendys Founder
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than
being ill at ease with yourself." - Honore De Balzac
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes." Washington Irving
Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making
mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again. - Vincent Van Gogh
Whatever may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is not
possible to live a really complete or successful life unless one is rich. - W.D.
Wattles (Science of Getting Rich)
"Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire within ourselves." - Nathaniel
Branden


"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort,
but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy."- Martin Luther
King, Jr., Clergyman, Civil Rights Leader
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules,
making mistakes, and having fun. - Mary Lou Cook
Until one is committed there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always
ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one
elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid
plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the Providence moves
too. Sir Edmond Hilary
strong by conflict. - William Ellery Channing
"Ill tell you what leadership is. Its persuasion and conciliation, education and
patience." Dwight Eisenhower, 34th US President
"Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and
attended to with diligence." Abigail Adams, Former US First Lady
Leaders are more concerned with winning than with not losing. They are more
concerned with whats right than with whos right. Brian Tracy
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
Seeing much, suffering much and studying much are the three pillars of
learning. Benjamin Disraeli
"To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself." - Anne Rice
"Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The
jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult." Stephen
Leacock

"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something
sensational to read in the train." - Oscar Wilde



"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure." - Samuel
Johnson

"The future starts today, never tomorrow." Barbara Hofmeister
"Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air."
Carl Sandburg

"It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I
couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous." - Robert Benchley

"It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary.
Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity." - Beatrice
Webb
"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
Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction." -
Kenichi Ohmae
You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming
a number of extremely challenging problems." Mark Victor Hansen
"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher
demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." - William Arthur Ward
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which
you really stop to look fear in the face." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting a different result." - Albert Einstein
"Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what
we ought." Pope Jean Paul II

"Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it." Martin Luther
Get a check-up from the neck up- Mark Victor Hansen
The will to win is important but the will to prepare is vital Joe Paterno


The quality of love and the duration of a relationship are in direct proportion
to the depth of commitment by both people to making the relationship
successful. Commit yourself wholeheartedly and unconditionally to the most
important people in your life." Brian Tracy
"I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution."
Werner von Braun, Engineer
He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve
much must sacrifice much James Allen Growth
An education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with
repairs and additions. Louis Dudek
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie
guarded." - Pope John Paul II
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures
success to the weak and esteem to all." George Washington
A feeling of continuous growth is a wonderful source of motivation and self-
confidence." -- Brian Tracy
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. - Horace
"Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you." Mae West
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 Schwab
Make everything you do tend toward the goal you wish to reach. Mr.
Wattles
If you merely do your work perfectly without reference to getting what you
want,
you will be an extraordinarily efficient worker, but you will probably remain
right where you are. You will get a great deal of praise, but it will come mostly
from those who profit from your efficiency. - Mr. Wattles
Winners learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that
they have resisted it in the past." Tom Peters


Set too many goals and keep adding more goals. Goals have a tendency to be
realized all at once. - Mark Victor Hansen
"Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person
operating within a community of persons." Pope John Paul II
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried
before you give them your confidence. George Washington
"We cannot change anything until we accept it." Carl Jung
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to lose it." Warren
Buffett
"Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea?
Nothing!" - Donald Gardner
The financial results you're currently getting are a direct result of the
actions you're taking and the thoughts you're processing. Paul Counsel,
Australian Entrepreneur
Big Jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I can tell you how to get what you want: You've just got to keep a thing in
view and go for it and never let your eyes wander to the left or right or up or
down. And looking back is fatal." - William J Lock
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the
second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the
high wire. This is your moment. Own it. - Oprah Winfrey
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. - Kareem
Abdul-Jabar
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take
advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there.
You can't sit back and wait. - Ellen Metcalf
"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the
world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and
achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if


you forget that errand." - Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United
States
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they
become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear,
discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a
rational outlook, which eventually leads to success. - Brian Adams
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not
lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about
remedying them - every day begin the task anew. - Saint Francis de Sales
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can
reach for; perfection is God's business. - Michael J. Fox
The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the
wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we
embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark. - Barbara Hall, Northern
Exposure
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will
stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving
path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far
from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb. - Sir Winston
Churchill
"Journal writing is a voyage to the interior." - Christina Baldwin
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most
difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. - Walter Anderson
"I have brought myself by long meditation to the conviction that a human
being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a
will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment." - Benjamin Disraeli
The results you're achieving are the ones you've learned to achieve and if you
want to change these results then you must change the thinking and behavior
that's responsible for them. Paul Counsel, Australian Entrepreneur
Leaders don't create followers. They create more leaders." Tom Peters



"The glad hand is all right in sunshine, but its the helping hand on a dark day
that folks remember to the end of time." Amadeo P. Giannini, Bank of
America Founder
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as
succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind
will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
- Norman Vincent Peale
"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I dont
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 cant find
them, make them." George Bernard Shaw
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the
shade? - Benjamin Franklin
Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang
there except those that sang best. - Henry Van Dyke
A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned
you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the
way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it. -
Barbra Streisand
Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live. - Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe
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 Ewing
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 Herbert Allen
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. - Albert
Einstein
The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Anonymous


Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you
know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a
century ago? - Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable,
and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. -
Christopher Reeve
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was
once eccentric. - Bertrand Russell
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. - George
Bernard Shaw
It is never too late to become what you might have been.- George Eliot
And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was
more painful than the risk it took to blossom. - Anais Nin
There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way. -
Christopher Morley
"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it,
bearing within him the image of a cathedral." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Aviator, Author
Lets just say were up in heaven and there are six people in line. God looks
down and says, Heres the deal. There are 80 billion people down on the planet;
Ive only got room for one more. Who wants to go? Wed all plead our cases
and none of us would say, Put me down so I can sit on the couch, play
Nintendo, and drink a six pack. Wed all have other reasons why were
supposed to be put on this planet. I suggest we find out what that purpose is
and then pursue it with everything we have. - Gregory Scott Reid, author
"One of the most important rules for success is this:
Every great success is the result of hundreds and thousands of small efforts
and accomplishments that no one sees or appreciates." - Brian Tracy, Author
and Speaker


Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be
great?- Jimmy Johnson, Coach
I think that sometimes the difference between winning and losing, success
and failure, is this gray line between will, passion, and self-belief that says,
'I'm going to do this.- Howard Schultz, Chairman of Starbucks
"It isn't what the book costs; it's what it will cost if you don't read it." Jim
Rohn
If your only prayer that you ever say is, Thank-you that will be enough. -
Meister Ekhart
Whatever you can do or dream you can; Begin it. Boldness has genius, power
and magic in it. Begin it Now." J.W. Goethe
Worrying is like a rocking chair: It gives you something to do, but it doesn't
get you anywhereHe who waits until circumstances completely favor his
undertaking, will never accomplish anything.- Martin Luther King
"Many of life's failures are people who had not realized how close they were
to success when they gave up." - Thomas Edison
"Goals are dreams with deadlines." Diana Scharf Hunt
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you
really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing, which you think you
cannot do. - Eleanor Roosevelt
"To love oneself is to struggle to rediscover and maintain your uniqueness. It is
understanding and appreciating the idea that you will be the ONLY YOU to
ever live upon this earth, that when you die, so will all of your fantastic
possibilities. It is the realization that even you are not totally aware of the
wonders which lie dormant within yourself." - Leo Buscaglia
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in
harmony. - Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change
the world; indeed it's the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead (1901-
1978), American Anthropologist


Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the
way. - Abraham Lincoln
"Some people get frozen by a fear of failure. They get it from their peers or
from just thinking about the possibility of negative results. They might be
afraid of looking bad or being embarrassed. I realized that if I was going to
achieve anything in life, I had to be aggressive. I had to get out there and go
for it. I don't believe you can achieve anything by being passive. I'm not
thinking about anything except what I'm trying to accomplish. Any fear is an
illusion. You think something is standing in your way, but nothing is really
there. What is there is an opportunity to do your best and gain some success.
If it turns out my best isn't good enough, then at least I'll never be able to
look back and say I was too afraid to try. Failure always made me try harder
next time." - Michael Jordan
"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that
is; not learning from experience." - Archibald McLeish, Poet
"More often in life we end up regretting the chances in life that we had, but
didn't take, than those chances that we took and wished we hadn't"
Anonymous
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some
blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to
be encumbered with your old nonsense. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to
find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do." - Henry Ford, Inventor and
Founder of Ford Motor Company
"If you are looking for the Key to the Universe I have some bad news, and
some good news. The bad news is... There is no Key to the Universe. The good
news is... It has been left unlocked." - Swami Beyondananda
"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 and you'll be amazed at the
energy that comes out of you." - William James 1842-1910, American
Philosopher
"I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things
beyond where they've been" Sam Walton, Founder Wal-Mart


"If you're NOT a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business." - Ray
Kroc, founder McDonald's
"There are two ways to get to the top of an oak tree. One way is to sit on an
acorn and wait; the other way is to climb it." - Kemmons Wilson, founder
Holiday Inn, The Nations Innkeeper
Sometimes its heaven, sometimes its hell- sometimes I don't even know.
Sometimes I take it as far as I can and sometimes I don't even go."- Willie
Nelson

"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other
way." Unknown
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear." - Mark
Twain

"Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none." - Shakespeare

"Find out who you are and do it on purpose." - Dolly Parton

"Failure is not an option." - Gene Kranz, Apollo 13
"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter." - E.E. Cummings

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

"God will not have His works made manifest by cowards." - Ralph Waldo
Emerson

"By thought, the thing you want is brought to you; by action you receive it." -
Wallace D. Wattles

"Life is a lively process of becoming." - Douglas MacArthur

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

"Drive your business! Let not that drive thee." - Benjamin Franklin



"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons." - Woody Allen

"I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money." - Pablo Picasso

"It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy
without money." - Albert Camus

"All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action." -
Demosthenes

"I can't say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days." -
Daniel Boone

"Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings." -
Hodding Carter

"A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to
die he must first awake." - Carl Sandburg

"We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude."
- Cynthia Ozick

"I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde

"One of the great joys of youth is the privilege of not knowing any better." -
Michael Morton

"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it." - Winston Churchill

"You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt..." - Samuel Ullman

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." -
Robert Frost
"All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another,
and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only
thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for
external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed
in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you wont
succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy."
Wayne Dyer


Dont try to be great at all things. Pick a few things to be good at and be the
best you can." - Liz Ashe
"You will find at the base of and birth of every great business organization
was an enthusiast, a man consumed with earnestness of purpose, with
confidence in his powers, with faith in the worthiness of his endeavors. B.C.
Forbes
A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of
confidence and personal power." Brian Tracy
"Our vision controls the way we think and, therefore, the way we act . . . The
vision we have of our jobs determines what we do and the opportunities we see
or dont see." Charles Koch, Koch Industries Chairman and CEO
Don't limit investing to the financial world. Invest something of yourself,
and you will be richly rewarded. Charles Schwab
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without
hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness."
George Sand
"There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning."
Christopher Morley
"Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any
number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves
successful." - Gen. Robert E. Wood
Listening to the inner voice trusting the inner voice is one of the most
important lessons of leadership." Warren Bennis
"I have learned that 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, 1817-1862,
Writer and Poet
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 something, at whatever cost, must be attained."
Marie Curie


Set yourself to work to find some good -- and true -- thing to say about every
person you know, and if you find anything disagreeable to say, forget it. It is
not "smart" to say disagreeable things about people. It takes a far finer brain
to say good things. So never mention that you dislike any person or thing.
Mr. Wattles
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
looks like work." Thomas A. Edison
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds
left undone." Harriet Beecher Stowe
Most misfortunes are the results of misused time." Napoleon Hill
"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the
impossible and achieve it, generation after generation." Pearl Buck
When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes." Oprah
Winfrey
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of
strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will." -- Vincent T.
Lombardi
"Waste not fresh tears over old grieves." Euripides
When you cannot make up your mind which of the two evenly balanced courses
of action you should take choose the bolder." W.J. Slim
Don't try to be great at all things. Pick a few things to be good at and be the
"The universe is completely balanced and in perfect order. You will always be
compensated for everything that you do." - Brian Tracy
"It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that
others waste time." - Henry Ford
Aim above morality. Be not simply good for something." Henry David
Thoreau
"There is true courage in the acts of every day living." - Rick Beneteau


The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you
want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve." Brian
Tracy
Any intelligent 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." - Ernst Schumacher
Rarely taught and infrequently practiced, listening is nonetheless a key to
communicating and making others feel special. - Dr. Tony Alessandra
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run
and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying." Friedrich Nietzsche
"The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the
losers." Brian Tracy
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence." Vince Lombardi
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning" -
Christopher Morley
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you
really stop to look fear in the face." Eleanor Roosevelt
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort,
but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." Martin Luther
King
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken
seriously." Hubert Humphrey
One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be
taken away unless it is surrendered." - Michael J. Fox
"Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had
the confidence you desire to have." Brian Tracy
"The fault is not in the stars, but in ourselves." Shakespeare
"The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the
losers." Brian Tracy


Treat your body like a temple, not a woodshed. The mind and body work
together. Your body needs to be a good support system for the mind and
spirit. If you take good care of it, your body can take you wherever you want
to go, with the power and strength and energy and vitality you will need to get
there." Jim Rohn
The simple act of admitting you don't know an answer, at present, activates
your inner wisdom and guidance. By simply being willing to wait for inspiration,
you virtually guarantee that it will come." Richard Carlson
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you
didn't do then by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away
from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
Discover." - Mark Twain
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 Green Ingersoll
"Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to
myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really
becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can
do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at
the beginning." - Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948, Indian Political Leader
"Every man is a fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not
exceeding the limit." Elbert Hubbard
"If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and only
uses half of it, he has partly failed. If he has talent and learns somehow to
use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded and won satisfaction and a
triumph few men ever know." - Thomas Wolfe
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts. - J.W.
Goethe
Persistence is an expression of the mental strength that is essential in almost
every profession, where repeated rejection and obstacles are part of a daily
routine. - Bob Proctor
"A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of
confidence and personal power." Brian Tracy


When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is
lost; when character is lost, all is lost." - Billy Graham
"I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I
can reach for; perfection is God's business." - Michael J. Fox
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it, you will land among the stars." - Les
Brown
Each time you decide to grow again, you realize you're starting at the bottom
of another ladder." Ken Rosenthal
When you feel passion, work and play are the same. When you love what you
do, you work harder and produce more results than ever before. - Unknown
Fixing your objective is like identifying the North Star - you sight your
compass on it and then use it as the means of getting back on track when you
tend to stray." - Marshall Dimock
Don't limit investing to the financial world. Invest something of yourself, and
you will be richly rewarded. - Charles Schwab
People forget how fast you did a job but they remember how well you did
it." Howard Newton
When your work is your Hobby, you never have to work a day in your life.
Siegfried Hofmeister
For every result there is a cost Brian Tracy
It has been said that success only shows up when determination does... but it
must be powered by a non-negotiable decision." - Doug Firebaugh
Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings." C.D. Jackson
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be
alive -- to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love." - Marcus Aureliu, 121-80 AD,
Roman Emperor, Philosopher
You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too
great to prevent the necessary job from getting done." Charles Yeager


Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it
impossible. Charles Wilson
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry
than work." Robert Frost
Having conceived of his purpose, a man should mentally mark out a straight
pathway to its achievement, looking neither to the right nor the left. - James
Allen
I used to say, 'I sure hope things will change.' Then I learned that the only
way things are going to change for me is when I change." - Jim Rohn
If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing, then start to
bail out the first time the boat starts leaking." Lou Holtz
Excellent service is not what you believe it to be, it's what your customer
perceives it to be. And tells others." - Jeffrey Gitomer
At first our dreams seem impossible, then they seem improbable, but when
we summon the will, they become inevitable." Christopher Reeve
The things that I found easy to do, others found easy not to do. - Jim Rohn
"I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting
devotion to the things you want to see happen. - Frank Lloyd Wright
"Writing is the gold standard of communication. Learn to do it well and see
more gold." - Chris Widener
"Would that I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people
to throw me all their wasted hours." - Bernard Berenson
"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something
you design for the present." - Jim Rohn
Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times
fail. I think we should follow a simple rule: If we can take the worst, take the
risk." Dr. Joyce Brothers


Time management is a vehicle to take you from wherever you are to wherever
you want to go." - Brian Tracy
"Time is amazing... it has only one thing to say to anyone... When?" - Doug
Firebaugh

"Time-management is the best kept secret of the rich." - Jim Rohn

"You may delay, but time will not." - Benjamin Franklin
"Nothing great has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe
something inside them was superior to circumstances." - Bruce Barton

"There's a wonder in the way we're always free; to change the world by
changing how we see." - Cyndi Craven

"Being rich has more to do with a picture than a bank account... it is all about
the picture you see in your mind about your life... that determines what's in
your bank account." - Doug Firebaugh

"Visionaries are NOT special people. The gift of true vision requires only a
willingness to open your eyes to first, find the horizon. Once fixated on the
horizon comes the ability to see beyond, where the true magic of life exists." -
Rick Beneteau

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning,
unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into
advance." - Martin Luther

"The antidote to worry is purposeful action." - Brian Tracy

"As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the
fears of a coward expose him to danger." - Akhenaton

"You don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or
if not right, doing it the best you can. What can worry do for you? You are
already doing the best you can." - Joe Namath
You Can, When You believe You Can. - Max Steingart

Success is a state of mind. Jim Rohn


If you want to be successful, start thinking of yourself as being successful.
You are what you believe yourself to be. Max Steingart

Don't be afraid of what life has to offer you. If you believe that life is worth
living, your belief will help create the fact. Dalai Lama

The barrier between you and success does not exists in the real world. It is
simply composed of doubts about your ability. Barbara Hofmeister
Your only limits to your realization of tomorrow will be your doubts of today.
- Unknown
Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your
elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours." Marcus
Aurelius
Learning to write and speak before an audience. Nothing in life is more
important than the ability to communicate effectively. - Gerald Ford
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." Anatole
France
Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve. -
Leonardo da Vinci
The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle,
which is exactly what it is - a miracle and unrepeatable." - Margaret Storm
Jameson, 1891-1986, Novelist
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by
fearing to attempt. William Shakespeare
A single person who lacks commitment can be a major source of problems in
your organization." - Brian Tracy
A wise man will make more opportunities then he finds Francis Bacon
You dont have to worry if you do everything youre supposed to do right. Or
if not right, doing it the best you can. What can worry do for you? You are
already doing the best - Joe Namath
Never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be." Helen Keller


Would you like me to give you a formula for success? Its quite simple, really.
success. But it isnt all that. You can be discouraged by failure - or you can
learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because,
remember, thats where you will find success. - Thomas J. Watson
The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example." Thomas
Morell
Things unattended fester. Hearsay happens. Intentions become suspect. The
faster you broach the subject, the less infected the wounds. Dianna Booher
"None are so empty as those who are full of themselves." - Andrew Jackson

"Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation.
Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is illness. It all stems from ignorance." -
Jim Rohn

"A fool must now and then be right, by chance." - William Cowper

"Ignorance is not bliss, it is oblivion." - Philip Wylie
"One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life." - L.
Estrange

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

"If you want to take the meaning of the word integrity and reduce it to its
simplest terms, you'd conclude that a man of integrity is a promise keeper.
When he gives you his word. You can take it to the bank. His word is good." -
Bill McCartney

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

"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

"Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs
nothing, and conveys much." - Erastus Wiman


"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." -
Mark Twain
"Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect
goodness; find it where you may." - William Cobbett

"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 find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what
direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes
with wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at
anchor." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without
benefit of experience." - Henry Miller

"Luck is predictable; the harder you work, the luckier you get." - Brian Tracy

"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to
labor." - Robert Louis Stevenson

"A positive attitude won't let you do anything. But it will let you do everything
better than a negative attitude will." - Zig Ziglar

"Where do attitudes come from? Our attitudes come from our expectations:
If we expect things to turn out well, we have a positive attitude. If we expect
things to turn out poorly, then we have a negative attitude." - Brian Tracy

"Always be happy, never be satisfied." - Mark McKeon

"A positive attitude can really make dreams come true-it did for me." - Zina
Garrison

"The keys to great victories are usually speed, surprise, and concentration.
They work in business too." - Brian Tracy

"For a company's advertising strategy to work, it has to be handled not only
corporately, but also individually." - Patricia Fripp


"Target the Heart of Your Customer, not his Wallet." - Rick Beneteau
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the
children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the
long run than outright exposure. Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all." --
Helen Keller
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished
by diligence and labor." - Menander
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power." - Mary
Pickford
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey
that no one can take for us or spare us." Marcel Proust
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who does him absolutely
no good. Ann Landers
Don't carry a grudge. While you're carrying the grudge, the other guy's out
dancing." Buddy Hackett
No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage
it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a
leadership composed of average human beings." Peter Drucker
There is a time to hold the gavel and a time to pass it on. More important
than plaques on your wall or monuments bearing your name are the hearts
which have been touched because you chose to lead with love." - Neil Eskelin
"All great leaders have understood that their number one responsibility is
cultivating their own discipline and personal growth. Those who cannot lead
themselves cannot lead others." - John Maxwell
"Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions." -
Harold S. Geneen
"Every great man has become great; every successful man has succeeded, in
proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel." Orison
Swett Marden


"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you
"When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a
decision." Ronald Reagan
Be a collector of good ideas, but don't trust your memory. The best collecting
place for all of the ideas and information that comes your way is your journal."
-Jim Rohn
The first essential of success as a salesman is to make sure that he had a
good article to sell, as, unless he has faith in his own line, he can hardly hope
to persuade or enthuse his customer, and, having that faith, he should
endeavor to impart it to those whose business he is out to get." - Thomas
Lipton
It is said that one machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men. No machine,
however, can do the work of one extraordinary man." Tehyi Hsieh
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
Napoleon Hill
"One player practicing sportsmanship is far better than 50 preaching it."
Knute Rockne
"Optimism means expecting the best, but confidence means knowing how to
handle the worst. Never make a move if you are merely optimistic." The
Zurich Axioms
"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act, but I do believe
in a fate that falls on men unless they act." - G.K. Chesterton
No one is useless in the world that lightens the burden of it for anyone else."
- Charles Dickens
"New knowledge is of little value if it doesn't change us, make us better
individuals, and help us to be more productive, happy, and useful." Hyrum
Smith
Viewing almost all problems as solvable--focusing on desired results rather
than possible failures--helps encourage people to step forward and convert
fear into challenge. - Dr. Tony Alessandra


"Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must
be without one, be without strategy." Norman Schwarzkopf
The problems of this world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can
dream of things that never were." - John F. Kennedy
"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in which
direction we are moving." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the
dark to our success." Henry David Thoreau
Most successful men have not achieved distinction by having some new talent
or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that
was at hand." Bruce Barton
"I want this team to win; I'm obsessed with winning, with discipline, with
achieving. That's what this country's all about." George Steinbrenner
"Sometimes you must fight and win, just because all the pain and suffering you
experienced up to this point on your quest would be rendered futile if you
were to surrender now." - Alvin Day
"The first basic ingredient of leadership is a guiding vision. 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 Bennis
"The price of excellence is discipline; the cost of mediocrity is
disappointment" - William A. Ward
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No
idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can
do today." - Earl of Chesterfield
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but
to reveal to him his own." Benjamin Disraeli
The universe is completely balanced and in perfect order. You will always be
compensated for everything that you do." - Brian Tracy


"New knowledge is of little value if it doesn't change us, make us better
individuals, and help us to be more productive, happy, and useful." Hyrum
Smith
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow
part of us to die--whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious
uniqueness. Gilda Radner
but to reveal to him his own." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Don't try to be great at all things. Pick a few things to be good at and be the
"My father taught me to do more than you get paid for as an investment in
your future." Jim Rohn
"The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of
mind." Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only those things that are in
line with your principles and bear the light of day. The content of your
character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and
what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny...it is the light
that guides your way." - Heraclitus
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character,
give him power." - Abraham Lincoln
Forget words like 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' Just be sure your advertising is
saying something with substance. And be sure you're saying it like it's never
been said before." William Bernbach
"The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings
you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as close to
heaven as you can get. Without this - with work which you despise, which
bores you can which the world does not need - this life is hell." - W.E.B. DuBois
Discipline isn't on your back needling you with imperatives. It is at your side
encouraging you with incentives." - Cybil Stanton


"None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had
to accept disappointments as their daily bread... The art of living lies less in
eliminating our troubles than in growing with them." - Bernard Baruch
"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and
in between he does what he wants to do." Bob Dylan
Achievement - seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women
keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." Conrad Hilton
"Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather
must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by
life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can
only respond by being responsible." - Victor Frankl
"Victory belongs to the most persevering." Napoleon Bonaparte
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting a different result." - Albert Einstein
"Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in
all management of human affairs." Ralph Waldo Emerson
Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important
thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well." - Henry David Thoreau
"The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital." Joe Paterno
"The most important thing to do is set goals. Training is a waste of time if you
don't have goals." - Samantha Riley
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but
reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy."
Norman Vincent Peale
"By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and
work 12 hours a day." - Unknown
So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts
and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm." Winston
Churchill


"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 Schwab
circumstances." Martha Washington
"Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any
number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves
successful." - Gen. Robert E. Wood
"Formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a
fortune." - Jim Rohn
"Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There
are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find
strength in eloquence, some in judgment, and some in courage." - John W.
Gardner
When you cannot make up your mind which of the two evenly balanced courses
of action you should take choose the bolder." W.J. Slim
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized: In the first,
it is ridiculed. In the second, it is opposed. In the third, it is regarded as self-
evident." - Arthur Schoppenhauer"
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you
"Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter
except by your promotion." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an
obligation; every possession, a duty." John D. Rockefeller
Some people have learned to earn well, but they haven't learned to live well."
- Jim Rohn
"A leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is done,
his aim fulfilled, they will say, We did this ourselves." Lao-Tse,


Truth is a hard master and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems."
Ellis Peters
When you feel passion, work and play are the same. When you love what you
do, you work harder and produce more results than ever before. Brian Tracy
"I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take
advantage of it. Everyone has bad breaks, but everyone also has opportunities.
The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on." - Samuel
Goldwyn, 1879-1974, Film Producer
"If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction
that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be
successful. If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field
of attraction that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of
people that you want to be." - Brian Tracy
"The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't
like to do." - Thomas Edison
"When I have finally decided that a result is worth getting, I go ahead on it
and make trial after trial until it comes." Thomas Edison
You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas
won't get you anywhere." Lee Iacocca
"If you want a kinder world, then behave with kindness; if you want a peaceful
world, make peace within." - Dan Millman
Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul,
the blueprints of your ultimate achievements." - Napoleon Hill
"The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is
integrity." - Zig Ziglar
"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called
conscience." - George Washington
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest
men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied
conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts."
Rene Descartes


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
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost;
when character is lost, all is lost." - Billy Graham
"I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can
reach for; perfection is God's business." - Michael J. Fox
Everyone has the capacity to be excellent at something Brian Tracy
It has been said that success only shows up when determination does... but it
must be powered by a non-negotiable decision." - Doug Firebaugh
You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too
great to prevent the necessary job from getting done." Charles Yeager
For every result there is a cost - Brian Tracy
"Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always
find it." - Brian Tracy
The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming.
You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human
potential and stretch yourself to the limit." - Jim Rohn
"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and
in between he does what he wants to do." - Bob Dylan
If you do the things you fear, the fear will die. Brian Tracy
If your work is your Hobby, you never have to work a day in your life. Brian
Tracy
"Indecision is the thief of opportunity." - Jim Rohn
"Would that I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to
throw me all their wasted hours." - Bernard Berenson


"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you
design for the present." - Jim Rohn
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken
seriously." Brian Tracy
"We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves." -
May Lamberton Becker.

"The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning." - T.S.
Eliot.

"Old age is when you know all the answers, but nobody asks you the questions."
- Bert K. Smith.
"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." - Sir Richard Steele
"It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion; the other, self-
denial." Thomas Haliburton, Writer
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge is
shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. - Albert Einstein
"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting
otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem." Theodore Rubin



International Proverbs:
"One head cannot hold all wisdom ( East Africa),
Heroism consists of hanging on one minute longer. (Norwegian),
Better to suffer for truth than to prosper by falsehood (Danish),
Success has many parents, but failure is an orphan (American)".
"Children have more need of models than of critics (French)
Liberty has no price (Spanish)
Doubt is the key to knowledge (Iranian)
Postpone today's anger until tomorrow (Tagalog, Filipino)
Prayer only from the mouth is no prayer (Jamaican)
There is often wisdom under a shaggy coat (Latin)
A good example is the best sermon (English)
What one hopes for is always better than one has (Ethiopian)
Promise little and do much (Hebrew)
It is better to prevent than to cure (Peruvian)
Spending is quick, earning is slow (Russian)
People show their character by what they laugh at (German)
You can't see the whole sky through a bamboo tube (Japanese)
Don't let grass grow on the path of friendship (Blackfoot Indian)


Dear Reader
I hope some of these quotes have inspired you to get out of your
personal comfort zone and into your dream life. If you want further
support, inspiration, and motivation to keep you moving in the right
direction please consider one of my programs.
You truly deserve only the BEST.
Abundant Blessings
Barbara
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What others are saying about the "To be" system:

I have to say that working with you has given me great inspiration and
confidence. I feel though as I have drifted away from our aim and have a
lot of caching up to do! It seems like I havent been serious enough
since before summer.

The last few months I have been taking on significantly more
responsibility within the business throughout Europe. We are at a rapid
growth period where every hour is fully used. It is a lot of fun and I
am enjoying my new role very much. I give a great deal of credit to your
Coaching and Mastermind group as working with you has given me more
courage and energy.
Barbara, I know people will get result when they go through that course
guided by you.
- Gudrun, Iceland

Barbara is that rare breed of person; not only a woman who has a clear
vision of where she is going and what she intends to achieve but also one
who can clearly implement a plan and bring it to fruition.

Most of us have strengths that make us effective to initiate a project,
or run with it for a certain distance, or complete and manage different
parts of a project.

Barbara manages all stages and with equal enthusiasm and commitment -
this is quite a rare talent. She does not give up when the going gets
tough and she ensures that you don't give up either. This clarity,
commitment, tenacity and tidiness are wonderful qualities in a personal
life coach and trainer. With Barbara you get the whole team in one
person!

- Sharon Macnish
Director of Professional Education,
Letchworth Centre for Complementary Medicine, England

"You are a natural leader and coach because you really care what happens
to your members. I enjoy working with you and have already reached more
of my goals in the last 3 months than I expected for this full year. It
is amazing how much more I get done when I am accountable. This is fun!"
- John Paul, UK

Hi Barbara

This isn't about theory.

Your system is about doing and achieving.

I think you really want people to get the vision they want for
themselves. That's way you ask us to describe it so vividly - and finally
I got it. I am not a victim anymore. Thank you sooooo much.
- Charles, USA

"I joined your program and really expected to set out on another short
lived adventure in self-improvement.

But when I downloaded your program and began using the membership
benefits --- I began to see how unique your approach really is!


Finally I have a personal guide who addresses MY QUESTIONS and issues
directly. Also you provided encouragement when I needed it most. I am
nearly finished with the first series of the manual, but I am glad I
signed up for a full year and plan on keeping my membership long
afterward to get support for my continuing efforts.

You're correct, Barbara, change is work, but with you, the journey has
been exhilarating! I have so much more time now that I can spend with my
wife Lisa and our kids. They really love the changes in me.

Thank you for all of your hands-on help!
- Robert, California

Barbara,
I want to let you know that no matter what happens you are going to be a
great success. I know this because I am an expert in the field of
behavior and I am very good at assessing persons abilities and their
will to get the job done. You have the power to become one of the biggest
inspirations to your clients.

I see also someone who is a very big role model for kids, specifically
girls, in the area of development. I have never miss calculated my
ability to determine someones success and you are by far one of the
strongest people I have ever worked with. YOU WILL SUCCEED and together
someday WE can make a difference in one small sector of a market, but on
your own you will reach millions!

- Dr. John P. DeMann
CEO Pillars of Excellence
www.pillarsofexcellence.com

Barbara
Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful system.

Your support along the way really made the difference. It seemed as
though, whenever I felt discouraged, an e-mail would appear in my bax and
get me motivated again. And the feedback from the online conferences was
great as well.

I am in a warm, committed relationship for the first time in years, and
working on getting the education I need to become a nurses, a lifelong
dream of mine.
- Linda, Canada

You are a great coach and trainer Barbara Elisabeth, CA,USA

You see how we live, trapped by convention, culture, expectation of
others etc.

You don't live that way, and seem to have done it differently from an
early age. From your experiences, you understand why we do what we do,
and how we can change our lives by being honest with ourselves about what
it is we really want from life, and then working towards achieving that.

I think many self-help books are fluffy. They are written for one purpose
- to make money. The people who write them have a holier than thou
approach.



Not you. You talk to your members as one of them and actually get us to
get up and do it."
- Katie-Anne, Sweden

"Barbara, you are one of a kind. Always straight forward and committed to
the success of each of your clients. I have learned much more from you
than I ever thought possible. Your never ending enthusiasm has carried me
past some tough obstacles.

I will stay in your program for some time yet and have already convinced
my best friend to join. She can't believe the changes she sees in
me. Thanks"
- Frauke, Germany

"You could be the best female Coach on any level because you really care.
All you have to do is get someone to market you with the same passion you
coach us."
- Morgan, Australia



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