Inspirational Quotes from
Great Minds
It is absolutely amazing how one’s perspective and personal motivation can be transformed, often in the blink of an eye, when absorbing the captured thoughts of great minds. Like hearing a particular piece of music, just the right words at the right time, can catapult the mind to revitalize thinking and replenish
the spirit.
David Schaefer has personally selected a catalog of inspiring quotations. He has discovered over the years that having quick access to the insights and wisdom of others can often provide subtle, if not dramatic, positive guidance when it counts the most. David believes that each of us is gifted with gems of greatness — and so these words of wisdom and inspiration come from notable people of history, of today, and from people you may know personally.
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“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 ... 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
“Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.” -- Wayne Dyer
“Life is a field of unlimited possibilities.” -- Deepak Chopra
“Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.” -- John Petit-Senn
“Begin with the end in mind.” -- Stephen Covey
“You are not here to merely 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 the errand.” -- Woodrow Wilson
“Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.”
-- Alfred Adler
“Lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.” -- Anthony Robbins
“Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result but the cause of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all. So don’t wait for trouble to intimidate or paralyze you. Make a move.” -- Norman Vincent Peale
“Well done is better than well said.” -- Benjamin Franklin
“There’s nothing really difficult if you only begin -- some people contemplate a task until it looms so big, it seems impossible, but I just begin and it gets done somehow ... ” -- John Shaw Billings (1838 - 1913)
“Never mistake motion for action.” -- Ernest Hemingway
“Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.” -- Robert F. Bennett
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” -- Albert Einstein
“There are people who make things happen, those who watch what happens, and those who wonder what happened.” -- Author Unknown
“Make a list of all the things you believed in before you were told they were impossible.”
-- Author Unknown
“It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves -- in finding themselves.”
-- Andre Gide
“Adventure is a human need. We recognize it as the daring thing which makes us bigger than our usual selves. Adventure is the curiosity of man to see the other side of the mountain, the impulse in him that makes him break his bonds with lesser things and frees him for greater possibility.” -- Walt Burnett
“It is confidence in our bodies, minds, and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn -- which is what life is all about.” -- Oprah Winfrey
“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.” -- Amelia Earhart
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” -- Albert Einstein
“All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles have strengthened me.”-- Walt Disney
“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.” -- Chinese Proverb
“No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves.” -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
“When one door closes another opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.” -- Alexander Graham Bell
“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.” -- Thomas Jefferson
“Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.”
-- Francis Bacon
“An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.”
-- Sir Winston Churchill
“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal. Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” -- Thomas Jefferson
“The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their mind, can change the outer aspects of their lives ... Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive -- along with which comes the inner voice which says, ‘This is the real me,’ and when you have found that attitude, follow it” -- William James
“Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.” -- Norman Vincent Peale
“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you ... as by the attitude you bring to life.”
-- John Homer Mills
“Our lives are not determined by what happens to us, but how we react to what happens; not by what life brings to us, but by the attitude we bring to life. A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst ... a spark that creates extraordinary results.”
-- Author Unknown
“It’s so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to.” -- Annie Gottlier
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle.” -- Albert Einstein
“Attitude is the mind’s paint brush, it can color any situation.” -- Author Unknown
“Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.” -- Lou Holtz
“No life is so hard that one can’t make it easier by the way one accepts it.” -- Glasgow
“The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.”-- Euripides
“Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change -- to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change; Doing Something.”
-- Leo Buscaglia
“It is in changing that things find purpose.” -- Heraclitus
“If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.”
-- Mary Engelbreit
“I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a ‘transformer’ in any situation ... it requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.”
-- Stephen Covey
“Things do not change; we do.” -- Henry David Thoreau
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
-- Victor Frankl
“Learn to embrace change, and you’ll begin to recognize that life is in constant motion, and every change happens for a reason. When you see boundaries as opportunities, the world becomes a limitless place, and your life becomes a journey of change that always finds its way.” -- Author Unknown
“Positive change must come from the inside out.” -- Ivan Burnell
“If what you are doing is not working or it is not progressing as you envisioned, it is time to embrace change and take constructive action.” -- David Schaefer
“He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.” -- Raymond Hull
“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”
--John F. Kennedy
“Maintaining a complicated life is a great way to avoid changing it.” -- Elaine St. James
“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.” -- Denis Waitley
“Our own dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.” -- Sidney J. Harris
“Character is power.” -- Booker T. Washington
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.” -- Helen Keller
“Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of his organization … People seem not to see that their own opinion of the world is also a confession of character.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Character, the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life, is the source from which self-respect springs.” -- Joan Didion
“Character is much easier kept than recovered.” -- Thomas Paine
“Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that’s right is to get by, and the only thing that’s wrong is to get caught.” -- J.C. Watts
“Character is the foundation of all worthwhile success.” -- John Hays Hammond
“The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help that would never otherwise have occurred” -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“There is a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in doing something, you do it only when it’s convenient. When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.” -- Ken Blanchard
“Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes ... but no plans.” -- Peter Drucker
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.”
-- Abraham Lincoln
“The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.”
-- Peter Drucker
“Three-fourths of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world will disappear if we step into the shoes of our adversaries and understand their standpoint.” -- Mahatma Gandhi
“You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere.”
-- Lee Iacocca
“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”
-- Theodore Roosevelt
Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.” -- Hyman Rickover
“Most communication resembles a Ping-Pong game in which people are merely preparing to slam their next point across; but pausing to understand differing points of view and associated feelings can turn apparent opponents into true members of the same team.” -- Cliff Durfee
“Direct and easy communications -- freedom of speech in all forms and its broadest sense, has become vital to the very survival of civilized humanity.” -- Walt Disney
“People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing” -- Will Rogers
“Somehow I can’t believe that there are any heights that can’t be scaled by man who know the secret of making his dreams come true. His special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C’s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage and constancy -- and the greatest of these is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way.” -- Walt Disney
“Lack of confidence is not the result of difficulty; the difficulty comes from a lack of confidence.”
-- Seneca
“Confidence is the inner voice that says you are becoming what you are capable of being.”
-- Author Unknown
“Nothing is more important to your emotional health than a warm and wonderful feeling of self-worth.”
-- Robert H. Schuller
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” -- Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” -- Eleanor Roosevelt
“Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.” -- Denis Waitley
“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.” -- James Allen
“Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.” -- Samuel Johnson
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear ... not absence of fear.” -- Mark Twain
“Take your life and live it to the max. Deliberately do something today. Face your fear. Allow discomfort. Allow vulnerability. Allow uncertainty ... allow your greatness to shine through.” -- Ken Donaldson
“You can’t test courage cautiously.” -- Anne Dillard
“He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.” -- Miguel de Cervantes
“Feel the fear and do it anyway.” -- Susan Jeffers
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all. From now on you’ll be traveling the road between who you think you are and who you can be. The key is to allow yourself to make the journey.” -- from The Princess Diaries
“Courage is grace under pressure.” -- Ernest Hemingway
Determination, Perseverance, Discipline
“An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.” -- Thomas Fuller
“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.”
-- Tommy Lasorda
“I do not think there is any quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.” -- John D. Rockefeller III
“Without discipline, there’s no life at all.” -- Katherine Hepburn
“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
“I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.” -- Vincent Van Gogh
“Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the high road to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.” -- Brain Tracy
“Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.”
-- Louis Pasteur
“The people that get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.” -- George Bernard Shaw
“Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” -- Calvin Coolidge
“Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.” -- John Quincy Adams
“For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward ... Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.” -- Jim Rohn
“Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.” -- May Sarton
“Too much of a good thing is wonderful!” -- Mae West
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.” -- Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
“The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.” -- Ginger Rogers
“Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your objective. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“No one keeps up his enthusiasm automatically. Enthusiasm must be nourished with new actions, new aspirations, new efforts, new vision. It is one’s own fault if his enthusiasm is gone; he has failed to feed it.” -- Duke Papyrus
“There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.”
-- Norman Vincent Peale
“The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom. We would have more than one Einstein, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds … ” -- Sidney Madwed
“The way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation and encouragement ... I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess.” -- Charles Schwab
“Encouraged people achieve the best; dominated people achieve second best; neglected people achieve the least.” -- Author Unknown
“Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you.” – William Arthur Ward
“Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great, make you feel that you too can become great.” -- Mark Twain
“If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.” -- Vince Lombardi
“Never, never, never, never give up!” -- Sir Winston Churchill
“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
“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.” -- Albert Schweitzer
“The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example.” -- Thomas Morell
“People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.” -- Tyron Edwards
“Nothing is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.” -- James Kent
“In every society, there are human benchmarks -- certain individuals whose behavior becomes a model for everyone else -- shining examples that others admire and emulate. We call these individuals class acts.”
-- Dan Sullivan
“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.” -- Vince Lombardi
“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.” -- Helen Keller
“A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.”
-- John Henry Newman
“The only thing that separates any one of us form excellence is fear, and the opposite of fear is faith. I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for, perfection is God’s business.” -- Michael J. Fox
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well ... All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, it is a habit.” -- Arisotle
“One golden key to a life of excellence and achievement is to stop doing what is convenient and to start doing what is right.” -- Robin Sharma
“Happiness is the offspring of concentrated action. Excellence is achieved through the progressive realization of incremental goals along the path of your life’s mission.” -- Robin Sharma
“Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence -- natural ability notwithstanding. -- Stephen Covey
“The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential ... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.” -- Eddie Robinson
“We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove- lid again -- and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.” -- Mark Twain
“Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him ... experience teaches only the teachable.” -- Aldous Leonard Huxley
“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.” -- Douglas Adams
“With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.”
-- Oprah Winfrey
“You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning ... a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be” -- Joseph Campbell
“Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I’m doing.” -- Phil Jackson
“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously ... ” -- Eleanor Roosevelt
“The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years, but the one with the richest experiences.” -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“When every physical and mental resource is focused, one’s power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.” -- Norman Vincent Peale
“No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated and disciplined.”
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick
“When you stay focused and keep a commitment you create momentum, and momentum creates momentum.” -- Rich Fettke
“I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp in-focus picture of it in my head.”
-- Jack Nicklaus
“Attention makes the genius. All learning, fancy, science and skill depend upon it. Newton traced his great discoveries to it. It builds bridges, opens new worlds, heals disease, carries on the business of the world. Without it, taste is useless and the beauties of literature unobserved.” -- Robert Willmont
“Keep your mind on the things you want and off the things you don’t want.”
-- Hannah Whitall Smith
“The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.” -- Og Mandino
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
-- Zig Ziglar
“The day you commit to a goal, you already have it. It just hasn’t arrived yet.”
-- Mark Victor Hansen
“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.” -- Andrew Carnegie
“The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.” -- Denis Waitley
“The first fifteen minutes of your day should be spent planning your day. Set specific goals as to what you will accomplish. These clear goals will give you focal points on which you can govern your actions and provide you with a template you can live your day from.” -- Robin Sharma
“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” -- Michelangelo
“You want to set a goal that is big enough that in the process of achieving it you become someone worth becoming.” -- Jim Rohn
“The difference between a goal and a dream is the written word.” -- Gene Donohue
“Gratitude is the memory of the heart.” -- Jean Baptiste Massieu
“The nature of gratitude helps dispel the idea that we do not have enough, that we will never have enough, and that we ourselves are not enough.” -- Wayne Dyer
“Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.” -- Francesca Reigler
“The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it, put your whole soul into it -- every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.” -- John D. Rockefeller III
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” -- Epictetus
“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.” -- Mother Teresa
“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.” -- Agnes Repplier
“A long, healthy and happy life is the result of making contributions, of having meaningful projects that are personally exciting and contribute to and bless the lives of others.” -- Hans Selye
“If you want to be happy, be.” -- Leo Tolstoy
“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
“Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.” -- W. Feather
“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
-- Guillaume Appollinaire
“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values.”
-- Ayn Rand
“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
“The greatest wealth is health.” -- Virgil
“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.” -- Gautama Buddha
“We are the only creatures on earth who can change our biology by what we think and feel ... Health is not just the absence of a disease. It‘s an inner joyfulness that should be ours all the time, a state of positive well-being.” -- Deepak Chopra
“Hope, purpose and determination are not merely mental states. They have electrochemical connections that affect the immune system.” -- Norman Cousins
“Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Making time to care for yourself is not a selfish act, it’s a selfless one that will positively impact all those around you.” -- Robin Sharma
“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.” -- Mark Twain
“A half-truth is a whole lie.” -- Yiddish Proverb
“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.” -- Abraham Lincoln
“Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?” -- Cicero
“No legacy is so rich as honesty.” -- William Shakespeare
“Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.” -- Thomas Jefferson
“All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only on the full use of our creative imagination.”
-- Ruth Ross
“All successful men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.” -- Brian Tracy
“As a man imagines himself to be, so shall he be, he is what he imagines.” -- Paracelsus
“Man’s mind, stretched to a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.”-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” -- Henry David Thoreau
“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make our world.”
-- Gautama Buddha
“Imagination is more important than knowledge ... Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life‘s coming attractions.” -- Albert Einstein
“You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were, and I say Why not?”
-- George Bernard Shaw
“Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.” -- Lauren Bacall
“Live out of your imagination, not your history.” -- Stephen Covey
“Nothing happens unless first a dream.” -- Carl Sandburg
“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project ... dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive and you discover yourself to be a greater person than you ever dreamed yourself to be.” -- Patanjali
“To succeed ... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.” -- Tony Dorsett
“Only when people are in touch with their passions do they use their heads to give shape and substance to their dreams.” -- Richard Chang
Instinct, Intuition, Subconscious Mind
“Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.” -- Michael Burke
“The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you, and you don’t know how or why.”
-- Albert Einstein
“Trust your hunches. They’re usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.”
-- Joyce Brothers
“Your subconscious mind does not argue with you. It accepts what your conscious mind decrees ... ”
-- Joseph Murphy
“Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious data base outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This data base is the source of your hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise people regularly consult that smarter part.”
-- Michael J. Gelb
“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” -- Benjamin Spock
“You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.” -- Alan Alda
“Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s.”
-- Billy Wilder
“One of our greatest gifts is our intuition. It is a sixth sense we all have -- we just need to learn to tap into it.” -- Donna Karan
“For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or ‘consciously’ desire is nine times out of ten impossible -- hitch your wagon to a star, or you will just stay where you are.” -- D.H. Lawrence
“If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.”
-- Alan Simpson
“The time is always right to do what is right.” -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.” -- Harper Lee
“Integrity is the glue that holds life together.” -- Billy Graham
“The supreme quality for a leader is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible ... ”
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
“If you believe in unlimited quality and act in all of your business dealings with total integrity, the rest will take care of itself.” -- Frank Perdue
“When they come here they’re coming because of an integrity that we’ve established over the years. And they drive hundreds of miles. I feel a responsibility ... ” -- Walt Disney
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and help them become what they are capable of being.” -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Perhaps once in a hundred years a person may be ruined by excessive praise, but surely once every minute someone dies inside for lack of it.” -- Cecil G. Osborne
“The best part of life is not just surviving, but thriving -- with passion and compassion, and humor and style, and generosity and kindness.” -- Maya Angelou
“Modern corporations should be communities, not battlefields. At their heart lie covenants between executives and employees that rest on shared commitment to ideas, to issues, to values, to goals, and to management processes. Words such as love, warmth and personal chemistry are certainly pertinent.
-- Max De Pree
“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.” -- Lao-Tzu
Learning, Personal Development
“Life is like a combination lock; your job is to find the right numbers, in the right order, so you can have anything you want.” -- Brian Tracy
“If you conquer your mind, you conquer the world.” -- Indian Proverb
“Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous,
non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish.”
-- Brian Tracy
“Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band-aid remedies never last.”
-- Jack Nicklaus
“One of the great problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated. Education of the proper kind brings into view the order and sense in matters of the heart that otherwise seem elusive, and position the heart to play a significant role in affairs of the mind.”
-- Thomas Moore
“There is no knowledge that is not power.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The books that help you the most are those that make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.” -- Theodore Parker
“Self-knowledge appears as the beacon toward which successful people have always traveled.”
-- Stephen Covey
“Don’t let your schooling interfere with your education.” -- Mark Twain
“If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.” -- Henry Ford
“Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.”
-- Chinese Proverb
“Coaching is invaluable. It points out things people would not notice themselves and plays a big role in shaping behavior.” -- Charles Barrentine
“Leadership is not wielding authority -- it’s empowering people.” -- Becky Brodin
“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” -- Warren G. Bennis
“If a leader demonstrates competency, genuine concern for others, and admirable character, people will follow.” -- T. Richard Chase
“If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then you are an excellent leader.” -- Dolly Parton
“Leadership is about coaching people around their weaknesses and celebrating their magnificent strengths.” -- Robin Sharma
“To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership -- not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere.” -- Ronald Reagan
“Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible -- the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.” -- Virginia Satir
“The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.”
-- Elbert Hubbard
“It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.” -- Harvey S. Firestone
“Courage is the main quality of leadership, in my opinion, no matter where it is exercised.” -- Walt Disney
“Leadership is not magnetic personality -- that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not ‘making
friends and influencing people’ -- that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to higher sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.” -- Peter Drucker
“The single most important factor in determining the climate of an organization is the top executive.”
-- Charles Galloway
“Here lies a man who knew how to enlist the service of better men than himself.”
-- Andrew Carnegie’s gravestone epitaph
“Business can be one of three things in your life -- an absolute headache that you run yourself, something you get other people to run for you, or it can be a wonderful part of your life.” -- Paddi Lund
“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.” -- Robert Byrne
“Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose.”
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it.”
-- Brian Tracy
“There comes a special moment in everyone’s life, a moment for which that person was born. That special opportunity, when he seizes it, will fulfill his mission -- a mission for which he is uniquely qualified. In that moment, he finds his greatness. It is his finest hour.” -- Sir Winston Churchill
“When you were born, the world rejoiced while you cried. Live your life in such a way that, when you die, the world cries while you rejoice.” -- Indian Proverb
“Man’s task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.”
-- Friedrich Nietzche
“I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be ‘happy.’ I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, above all, to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference, that you lived at all.” -- Leo C. Rosten
“Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.” -- Gordon William Allport
“Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.”
-- Michael Leunig
“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.” -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Love has nothing to do with what you’re expecting to get -- only with what you’re expecting to give, which is everything.” -- Katherine Hepburn
“Love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image ... otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.” -- Author Unknown
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.” -- Lucille Ball
“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.” -- Mother Teresa
“Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.”
-- Pierre Teilhard DeChardin
“Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.”
-- Zig Ziglar
“Where there is love there is life.” -- Mahatma Gandhi
“Instead of loving things and using people, reverse to using things and loving people.”
-- Antonio Porchia
“It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.”
-- Ornette Coleman
“How a company deals with mistakes suggests how well it will bring out the best ideas and talents of its people, and how effectively it will respond to change. When employees know that mistakes won’t lead to retribution, it creates an atmosphere in which people are willing to come up with ideas and suggest changes. This is important to a company’s long-term success.” -- Bill Gates
“If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake.”
-- F. Wikzek
“Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won’t have time to make them all yourself.”
-- Alfred Sheinwold
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”
-- Elbert Hubbard
“The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.”
-- Malcolm S. Forbes
“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
“The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.” -- Theodore Roosevelt
“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were?” -- Satchell Paige
“You must begin to understand ... that the present state of your bank account, your sales, your health, your social life, your position at work, etc., is nothing more than the physical manifestation of your previous thinking. If you sincerely wish to change or improve your results in the physical world, you must change your thoughts, and you must change them immediately.” -- Bob Proctor
“There is more to life than increasing its speed.” -- Mahatma Gandhi
“Life tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.” -- Richard De Vos
“My mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general; if you become a monk, you’ll end up as the Pope.’ Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.” -- Pablo Picasso
“Man is what he believes.” -- Anton Chekov
“Wherever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act would all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.” -- Thomas Jefferson
“To see what few have seen, you must go where few have gone.” -- Gautama Buddha
“One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.” -- Michael Cibenko
“You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.” -- David Viscott
“There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values.” -- David G. Myers
“All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: that I am nobody but myself.” -- Ralph Ellison
“If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles, but I’d have fewer imaginary ones.” -- Don Herold
“A man is literally what he thinks ... You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.” -- James Allen
“Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage.” -- Claude Bristol
“Drag your thoughts away from your troubles -- by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage. It’s the healthiest thing a body can do.” -- Mark Twain
“You can be anything you want to be, if only you believe with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith; for whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.”
-- Napoleon Hill
“I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.” -- Mahatma Gandhi
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” -- Norman Vincent Peale
“No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.” -- Helen Keller
“Make the most of what comes and the least of what goes.” -- Veronique Vienne
“The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.”
-- Louise Hay
“It’s easy to be negative and unmotivated, but it takes some work to be positive and motivated. While there’s no off button for those relentless ‘tapes,’ there are things that you can do to turn down the volume and shift your focus from the negative to the positive.” -- Donna Cardillo
“You are a living magnet. What you attract into your life is in harmony with your dominant thoughts.”
-- Brian Tracy
“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.” -- Alexander Graham Bell
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” -- Mark Twain
“The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.”
-- Albert Einstein
“My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.”-- Charles Kettering
“You’ve got to ask. Asking is, in my opinion, the world’s most powerful and neglected secret to success and happiness.” - Percy Ross
“To every person there comes that moment when he is figuratively tapped on the shoulder to do a very special thing unique to him. What a tragedy if that moment finds him unprepared for the work that would be his finest hour.” -- Sir Winston Churchill
“Spectacular achievements are always preceded by painstaking preparation.”
-- Roger Staubach
“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” -- Benjamin Franklin
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
-- Colin Powell
“Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.” -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.” -- Ben Stein“You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.” -- Wayne Dyer
“Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.”
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.” -- Soren Aaby Kierkegaard
“Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect, but are always perfect for you.” -- Author Unknown
“Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.”
-- Jennie Jerome Churchill
“Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you’re really strangers.”
-- Mary Tyler Moore
“Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more effect on economic well-being than any other single factor.” -- Paul Hawken
“The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.” -- Sydney J. Harris
“True silence is the rest of the mind -- it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.” -- William Penn
“Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgement will be surer. Since to remain constantly at work will cause you to lose power of judgement, go some distance away -- because the work appears smaller, and more of it can be taken in at a glance, and a lack of harmony or proportion is more readily seen.” -- Leonardo DaVinci
“Don’t deny yourself a sense of play -- a chance to step down, relax, refresh yourself, put your molehills in perspective and not let them become mountains.” -- Author Unknown
“What we cultivate in times of ease, we gather as strength for times of change.”
-- Gautama Buddha
“Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself. This sanctuary is a simple awareness of comfort, which can’t be violated by the turmoil of events. This place feels no trauma and stores no hurt. It is the healing mental space that one seeks to find in meditation.”
-- Hermann Hesse
“The price of greatness is responsibility.” -- Sir Winston Churchill
“The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs.”
-- Joan Didion
“You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself.” -- Jim Rohn
“Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.”
-- Malcolm Forbes
“The secret of juggling many responsibilities is organization.” -- Walt Disney
“The world rewards those who take responsibility for their own success.” -- Curt Gerrish
“To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.” -- Abbie M. Dale
“My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.” -- Oprah Winfrey
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” -- Robert F. Kennedy
“Do the thing you fear to do and just keep on doing it. That is the quickest and surest way ever discovered to conquer fear.” -- Dale Carnegie
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” -- T.S. Eliot
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” -- Neale Donald Wlsch
“I think we should follow one simple rule: If we can take the worst, take the risk.” -- Joyce Brothers
“Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.” -- Author Unknown
“There is the risk you cannot afford to take and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take.”
-- Peter Drucker
“Progress always involves risk; you can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.”
-- Frederick Wilcox
“If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.” -- Geena Davis
“He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.” -- Lao-Tzu
“Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.” -- Albert Einstein
“The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.” -- Ashley Montagu
“There is nothing noble in being superior to others. True nobility lies in being superior to your former
self.” -- Indian Proverb
“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.” -- Henry David Thoreau
“Simplify your life. Don’t waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don’t burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple and enjoy what you have. Don’t destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present. Simplify!” -- Henry David Thoreau
“We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.” -- Socrates
“The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might and force of habit. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him -- and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires.” -- J. Paul Getty
“Frequent encounters with danger are a part of life ... making you inwardly strong ... instilling in you a profound awareness of life ... bringing new meaning, and richness.” -- I Ching
“Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.” -- Jim Rohn
“You can have anything you want in life if you will help other people get what they want.”
-- Zig Ziglar
Everyone has purpose in life ... a unique gift or special talents to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of our own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of goals.” -- Deepak Chopra
“I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.” -- Albert Schweitzer
“The only certain means is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.” -- Og Mandino
“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” -- Helen Keller
“Take the first step in faith. You don‘t have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step.”
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
“You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.”
-- Mary Manin Morrissey
“Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death.” -- Author Unknown
“Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually.” -- Eileen Caddy
“When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with
others.” -- Peace Pilgrim, American Activist
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” -- Charles Dickens
“In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.” -- Anne Frank
The Serenity Prayer: “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” -- Reinhold Niebuhr
“As a man thinketh, so is he. -- Proverbs 23:7
“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.” -- Earl Nightingale
If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
-- Thomas A. Edison
“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.” -- Frank Lloyd Wright
“If you want to increase your success rate, you have to be prepared to increase your failure rate.”
-- Thomas Watson
“The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion ... It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.”
-- Alexander Graham Bell
“Success is the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one’s ideal.” -- Anna Pavlova
“I’ve had enough success for two lifetimes. My success is talent put together with hard work and luck.”
-- Kareem Abdul-Jabar
“It is a wise person who understands that true success is accomplished with the alliance of others.”
-- David Schaefer
“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.”
-- Henry Ford
“The truth of the matter is that there’s nothing you can’t accomplish if: (1) you clearly decide what it is that you’re absolutely committed to achieving, (2) you’re willing to take massive action, (3) you notice what’s working or not, and (4) you continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way.” -- Anthony Robbins
“There is only one success -- to spend your life in your own way.” -- Christopher Morley
“It’s never too late to be what you might have been.” -- George Eliot
“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots n my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” -- Michael Jordan
“I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through, then follow through.”
-- Edward V. Rickenbacker
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in an day out.” -- Robert Collier
“If you want to succeed, you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.” -- John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
“Every man is the architect of his own fortune.” -- Sallust
“Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.” -- Scott Adams
“Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of healthy self-esteem, not it’s cause.”
-- Nathaniel Brandon
“Unless you try to do something beyond what you already mastered, you will never grow.”
-- Author Unknown
“One must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind him to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and a mystery.” -- H.G. Wells
“Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it.”
-- Lord Chesterfield
“Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique irreplaceable and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their loving care of time. -- Peter Drucker
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” -- Peter Drucker
“Time is a created thing. To say, I don’t have time is like saying, I don’t want to ... “ -- Lao-Tzu
“Why shouldn’t punctuality be a moral yardstick? Promptness tells me someone is more likely to be professional, respectful, reliable and considerate in our association ... Soon, the ‘I matter more’ attitude (of habitual latecomers) betrays a cavalier attitude that is hard to ignore. Absent is the recognition that it’s just as difficult for others to abandon what they’re doing to honor commitments --- but they do.”
-- Eve Glicksman
“It is useless to desire more time if you are already wasting what little you have.” -- James Allen
“The person who strives to do everything accomplishes nothing.” -- Robin Sharma
“I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.” -- Henry David Thoreau
“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.” -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.” -- Foster C. McClellan
“The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.” -- Henry L. Stimson
“Our distrust is very expensive.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough.”
-- Frank Crane
“Cherish your vision and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.” -- Napoleon Hill
“If you can dream it, you can do it ... ” -- Walt Disney
“All of the great achievers of the past have been visionary figures; they were men and women who projected into the future. They thought of what could be, rather than what already was, and then they moved themselves into action, to bring these things into fruition.” -- Bob Proctor
“A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.” -- Brian Tracy
“To come to be, you must have a vision of being -- a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.” -- Peter Nivio Zarlenga
“Whatever you can do or dream you can begin it.” -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.” -- James Lane Allen
“Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes time. Vision with action can change the world.” -- Joel Barker
“Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin.”
-- Robert Collier
“Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.”
-- Cherie Carter-Scott
“Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.” -- Jonathan Swift
“Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.”
-- Eugene H. Peterson
“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.” -- Kahlil Gibran
“If man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.” -- Henry David Thoreau
“Wisdom is the sunlight of the soul.” -- German Proverb
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.” -- Tao Te Ching
“Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.” -- David Star Jordan
“See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little.” -- Pope John XXIII
“Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.” -- Louis Boone
“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.”
-- Louis L’Amour
“How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.” -- George Washington Carver
“Life is like a 10-speed bike -- we all have gears we never use.” -- Charles Schulz
“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” -- Dolly Parton
“All organizations are merely conceptual embodiments of a very old, very basic idea -- the idea of community. They can be no more or less than the sum of the beliefs of the people drawn to them, of their character, judgments, acts and efforts.” -- Dee Hock
“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
-- Thomas Jefferson
“Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.” -- Rodan of Alexandria
“The hardest work is to go idle.” -- Yiddish Proverb
“I have no more than twenty acres of ground … the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils: boredom, vice, and want.” -- Voltaire
“Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.” -- James Allen
“The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few-and-far-between souls who devote 100%. -- Andrew Carnegie