There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. (Douglas Everett) Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right! (Henry Ford) Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary. (Anthony Robbins) I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. (Henry David Thoreau) Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. (John Wooden) Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets. (Clark Moustakas) We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature. (Ida R. Wylie) High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. (Jack Kinder) The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune. (Plutarch) Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it. (Anon) Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle. (Annie Besant) As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. (Andrew Carnegie) No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. (Harry Emerson Fosdick) The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. (Carl Frederick) Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue. (Giuseppe Garibaldi) Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. (Andre Gide) The wise man does at once what the fool does finally. (Baltasar Gracian) The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going. (Napoleon Hill) Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. (Conrad Hilton) Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know. (George Macdonald) I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts. (Horace Mann) Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen. (Peter Marshall) I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand. (Chinese Proverb) You see, in life, 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) Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than 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) One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time. (John Wanamaker) Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful. (Wallace D. Wattles) If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor. (Henry Kissinger) Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. (Washington Irving) When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it... (Rosalind Russell) There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to want what they can't have and not want what is readily available to them. (Robert J. Ringer) If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask! (W. Clement Stone) It's not the situation ... It's your reaction to the situation (Robert Conklin) Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life. (Morarji Desai) What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens. (Thaddeus Golas) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. (William James) 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) Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. (John Homer Miller) A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change. (Earl Nightingale) I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation (Mike Todd) Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can. (Willis Whitney) Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. (John Wooden) Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. (Zig Ziglar) Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. (Richard Bach) Everything is possible for him who believes. (Bible) The barrier between... success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of... doubts about...ability. (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent. (Arnold Schwarzenegger) You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot (Ben Stein) If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad. (Denis Waitley) You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose (Harry Browne) A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away. (Gene Roddenberry) You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be. (R. David Thomas) There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy. (Source Unknown) Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter. (Benjamin Disraeli) To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities. (Bruce Lee) What lies behing us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt A frontier is never a place; it is a time, an attitude, and a way of life. - Hal Borland Look at things not just as they are, but as they can be. - David Schwartz An important principle of success is developing the habit of going the extra mile. - Napoleon Hill Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. - Hannah Moore People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in business or in life is to be a good person. - Herbert Spencer Winners are known as much by the quality of their failure as by the quality of their successes. - Mark McCormack People are saying, "I want a company and a job that values me as much as I value it. I want something in my life not just to invest my time in, but to believe in." - Anita Roddick People don't give a hoot about who made the original whatzit. They want to know who makes the best one. - Howard W. Newton "It is not your aptitude, but your attitude, that determines your altitude" - Zig Ziglar "Vision without action is a day dream. Action without vision is a nightmare" - Japanese Proverb "Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure" - Edward Eggleston "The majority of people meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail" - Napoleon Hill "Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal" - Earl Nightingale "It's not what happens to you; it's what you do about it that makes the difference" - W. Mitchell People may doubt what we say, but they always believe what we do. - Don Galer The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses--behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. - Muhammad Ali The first and most important thing about goals is having one. - Geoffrey Abert The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt The greatest good we can do for others is not to share our riches but to reveal theirs. - B.J. Marshall The moment you commit and quit holding back, all sorts of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance will rise up to help you. The simple act of commitment is a powerful magnet for help. - Napoleon Hill The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose - William Cooper The real friend of his country is the person who believes in excellence, seeks for it, fights for it, defends it and tries to produce it. - Morley Callaghan The real secret of joy in work is contained in one word---excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. - Pearl Buck Three daily reminders: Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Have the courage to do the right thing because it is right. - W. Clement Stone To every person there comes that special moment when he is 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. - Winston Churchill To be courageous requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula. It's an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to us all--and each person must look for that courage in his own soul. - John F. Kennedy To begin is the most important part of any quest, and by far the most courageous. - Plato To get results, decide to have fun. Fun creates enjoyment, which invites participation, which focuses attention, which expands awareness, which promotes insight, which generates knowledge, which facilitates action. And action gets results.- Oswald Shallow To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity. - Donald A. Adams "The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation." - Mark Twain "My philosophy is simple: Love what you do. Don't do something because you hear that it's a great way to make money." - Richard Foos, President, Rhino Records "I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, (just) for the money - has turned himself into a slave." - Joseph Campbell What you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe and enthusiastically act upon...must inevitably come to pass. - Paul J. Meyer When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word "succeed," you find it simply means to follow through. - F.W. Nichol Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way and who will be sharing the journey with them. - Denis Waitley Successful people have formed the habit of doing the things that unsuccessful people don't do. - Albert Gray You can either take action, or you can hang back and hope for a miracle. Miracles are great, but they are so unpredictable. - Peter Drucker A good laugh is sunshine in a house. - Wiliam Thackeray Joy is not in things, it is in us. - Benjamin Franklin Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. - Anais Nin We believe that lives are measured in memories, not years. - Make-A-Wish Foundation People with goals succeed because they know where they are going. - Earl Nightingale I always believed that if you set out to be successful, then you already are. - Katherine Dunham Those who build the future are those who know that greater things are yet to come. They never stop to doubt. They haven't time. - Melvin Evans If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it. - Mahatma Gandhi If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand, extraordinary things begin to happen. - Loretta Girzartis Believe that there's light at the end of the tunnel. Believe that you might be that light for somebody else. - Kobi Yamada He has achieved success who has gained the love of little children; who has left the world better than he found it; who has looked for the best in others and given the best he had. - A.J. Stanley Courage is grace under pressure. - Ernest Hemingway I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal. I had an ambition to build. - John D. Rockefeller Most of us, swimming against the tides of troubles the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement---and we'll make the goal. - J.P. Fleishman The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you. - Jerry Gillies I believe the highest form of praise you can give any individual is sincere and simple respect. - Carol Tramontana If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in. - Andrew Jackson I think the most significant work we ever do, in the whole world, in our whole life, is done within the four walls of our own home. - Stephen R. Covey It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, and then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done…then it is done and all the world wonders why it wasn not done centuries ago. - Frances Hodgson Burnett This is a wonderful country. This is a great place. Sometimes we don't see it. But I encourage people to look a little bit harder because if you look with your heart, if you look with hope, you will find a people and a country and a world worth living in. - Ron Kovik When building a team, I always search for people who love to win. If I can't find any of those, I look for people who hate to lose. - Ross Perot It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared. - Les Brown If the love of what you're doing exceeds the labor of doing it, success is inevitable. - Bob Beers One person can make a difference and every person should try. - John F. Kennedy One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests. - John Stuart Hill Visualize this thing that you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint, and begin to build! - Robert Collier When we set exciting worthwhile goals for ourselves, they work in two ways: We work on them, and they work on us. - EDGE Learning Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; can'ts into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it---ink it. - Dan Zadra Surround yourself with people who believe you can. - Dan Zadra A frontier is never a place; it is a time, an attitude, and a way of life. - Hal Borland I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infintely more important than what I can see. - Duane Michals A genius is just a talented person who does his homework. - Thomas Edison Expect the best. Believe something good is going to happen--and it usually will. - Dr. Robert Schuller Long-range goals keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures. - Charles C. Noble Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success. - Henry Ford When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. - Betty Bender Excellence is not a spectator sport. Everyone's involved. - Jack Welch Set your goals to paper and you're halfway there! - Don Ward I personally don't know how anybody can survive running a successful business in our times without caring. The twin ideals of love and care touch everything we do. - Anita Roddick I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I have failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. - Michael Jordan Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best, and that might as well be you. - Booker T. Washington To my customer: I may not have the answer, but I'll find it. I may not have the time, but I'll make time. I may not be the biggest, but I'll be the most committed to your success. - Dan Zadra It is a fundamental fact of life that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. - Napoleon Hill Winners are not passionate because they are successful--they are successful because they are passionate. - Don Ward "Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow." - Veteran trapeze performer A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. - Henry Ford A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact that everything has happened for the best. - Law of Success A dream without a goal is just a wish. - Bill Cole A great leader carries water for his people so they can get on with their jobs. - Robert Townsend A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice. - James Callaghan A mother is a person who, seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. - Tenneva Jordan A pro is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working. - Frank Lloyd Wright A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are made for.- Admiral Grace Hopper A small group of determined people can change the course of history. - Sonia Johnson Aim so high you'll never be bored. - Linda Gibbons All business proceeds on hopes and beliefs, not on certainties. - W. Clement Stone All glory comes from daring to begin. - Eugene F. Ware Americans will reach the moon by standing on each other's shoulders. - John F. Kennedy An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. - Victor Hugo An original is hard to find but easy to recognize. - John Mason Anything one person can imagine, other people can make real. - Jules Verne Anyone who says the days of opportunity are over is copping out. - Ann Landers Are you in earnest? Then seize this very minute. What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Only engage and then the mind grows heated; only begin, and then the goal will be completed. - J.W. von Goethe At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself. - Albert Einstein Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more. - H.W. Dresser, American Publisher Building a great tradition is more rewarding than simply having one. - J.R. Slaughter Care enough for a result, and you will almost certainly attain it. - William James Careful what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Character is what you are; reputation is what others think you are. Reputation is from other people; character is in you. - Carol O'Reilly Character may be visible in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. - Phillips Brooks Children are not poets. They are too busy being poems. - Unknown Children are the living messages we send to a time and place we will not see. - Linda Mundt Children are to be treated gently. They are like snowflakes--unique, but only here for a while. - Don Ward Children need our love, especially when they don't deserve it. - Harold S. Hulbert Choose to live, work and succeed in the most powerful nation on earth: Imagination. - Dan Zadra Comfort and luxury aren't the chief requirements of life; all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. - Charles Kingsley Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. - Henry Ford Creativity is one thing, but innovation is quite another. The innovators are those persistent mavericks who are willing to do whatever it takes to make the great idea a working reality. - Michael LeBoeuf Do what you love to do, and do it so well that those who come to see you do it will bring others to watch you do it again and again and again. - Mark Victor Hanson Do your work with your whole heart and you will succeed--there's so little competition. - Elbert Hubbard Don't be afraid to let a young person run the show. Someone can do a great job with very little experience, provided he or she has a very large heart. - Kobi Yamada Don't care what others think of what you do. Care very much about what you think you do. - St. Frances DeSalles Don't just create what the market needs or wants. Create what it would love. - Josh Armstrong Dreams not only come true, they can exceed your wildest expectations. - Tiffany Loren Rowe Dreams have as much influence as action. - Stephane Mallarme Each day silently affirm that you are the type of person with whom you would like to spend the rest of your life. - Bob Moawad Empathy is patiently and sincerely seeing the world through the other person's eyes. It is not learned in school; it is cultivated over a lifetime. - Albert Einstein Error is only the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently. - Henry Ford Every act of progress the world has ever known began first with a dreamer. After him came the scientist or statesman, the expert or the technician. But first came the dreamer. - Rabbi Maurice Davis Everyone has a purpose. You're not here by mistake. - Ben Morrow Everyone has inside him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't yet realize how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is! - Anne Frank Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. - Martin Luther Everywhere in life the true question is, not what we have gained, but what we do. - Carlyle Faith and doubt are both needed--not as antagonists, but working side by side--to take us around the unknown curve. - Lillian Smith Focused action beats brilliance any day. - Art Turock Getting ready is the secret to success. - Henry Ford Give the world the best that you have and you may get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best that you have anyway. - The Edge Good things usually begin with a difficulty. Great things invariably begin with an impossibility. - EDGE Keynote Great things are only possible with outrageous requests. - Thea Alexander Hats off to the past. Coats off to the future! - American Proverb He who builds according to everyone's advice will have a crooked house. - Danish Proverb Help a child and you help humanity. - Phillips Brooks Help each other be right, not wrong. Look for ways to make new ideas work, not for reasons they won't. Do everything with enthusiasm, it's contagious. - Ian Percy Hope comes furnished with light and heat. - Gil Atkinson / Don Ward I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind. - George Bernard Shaw I get quiet joy from the watching anyone who does his job well. - William Feather I had ambition not only to go farther than anyone had ever been, but as far as it was possible to go. - Captain James Cook I had always wanted an adventurous life. It took a long time to realize that I was the only one who was going to make an adventurous life happen to me. - Richard Bach I learned the hard way that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. - Lucille Ball I love those who yearn for the impossible. - Goethe I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one. - Mark Twain Idealists, foolish enough to throw caution to the winds, have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. - Emma Goldman Ideas are a dime a dozen, but the men and women who implement them are priceless. - Mary Kay Ash If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. - MIlton Berle If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked-out systems or traditional blueprints from the past. - Margaret Mead If you have a company, hire children to sit on your board. Then listen and learn. Their instincts are excellent. They cherish lived-up-to promises and real guarantees. - Faith Popcorn If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. - Henry D. Thoreau If you want to plant for days--plant flowers. If you want to plant for years--plant trees. If you want to plant for life--plant ideas. - Rob Gilbert If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time on them and half as much money. - Abigail Van Buren Imagination is the preview of life's coming attractions. - Larry Eisenberg In business, the value of honesty lies in its irreplaceability. You become what you say, and what you say becomes you. - Paul Hawken In summer I am very glad we children are so small, for we can see a thousand things that men can't see at all. - Laurence Alma-Tadema In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. - Albert Einstein In the morning ask yourself, "What good shall I do today?" As the day draws to a close ask yourself, "What good have I done today?" - Ben Franklin Integrity is telling yourself the truth. Honesty is telling the truth to other people. - Spencer Johnson Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do. - Don Galer It costs nothing to buy a dream...and it is the best investment you can make. - Dr. Robert Schuller It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. - Eleanor Roosevelt It's futile to wait for your ship to come in if you haven't sent one out. - EDGE Keynote It's important to take pride in what you do or what you stand for. The kind of pride I'm talking about is not the arrogant puffed-up kind; it's just the whole idea of caring---fiercely caring, - Red Aurbach Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. - Mother Teresa Leaders are people who focus attention on a vision. They know what they want and are very results-oriented. It's their intense focus on worthwhile outcomes that draws others to them and to their cause. - Warren Bennis Let your advance worrying become advance thinking and planning. - Winston Churchill Make your plans as fantastic as you like, because 25 years from now, they will seem mediocre. Make your plans 10 times as great as you first planned, and 25 years from now you will wonder why you did not make them 50 times as great. - Henry Curtis More people succeed with great purpose rather than with great talent. - Billy Sunday Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. - Louis Brandeis Most people devote more time to planning a two-week summer vacation than they devote to planning their most important lifetime goals. This week, set aside some quiet time to chart your future. - Bob Moawad Most people see what is, and never see what can be. - Albert Einstein Most successes have been built on failures; not on one failure alone, but on several. The majority of the great historic accomplishments have been on the final result of a persistent struggle against discouragement and failure. - Charles Gow Never give up on anybody. - Hubert H. Humphrey No matter what business we're in, the goal is quality and the challenge is reaching it. - Fred Smith (Founder of FedEx) No one can be the best at everything. But when all of us combine our talents, we can be the best at virtually anything. - Dan Zadra Nothing much happens without a dream. For something really great to happen, it takes a really great dream. - Robert Greenleaf Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties and obstacles vanish. - John Quincy Adams People will work eight hours a day for pay, 10 hours a day for a good boss, and 24 hours a day for a good cause! - John C. Maxwell Personality can open many doors, but only character and integrity will keep them open. - Don Ward Service, service, serviceÉand more service. While everybody wants it, most don't want to give it. - Tom Peters Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. - Eileen Caddy Snowflakes are a fragile thing individually, but look at what they can do when they stick together. - Fernando Bonaventura Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. - Doug Larson Success comes more from thoughtful wishing than from wishful thinking. - Houghton Line Success is failure turned inside out. - Unknown Success is the side-effect of your personal dedication to a course greater than yourself. - Viktor Frankl The best leaders are not interested in selling their own ideas, but in finding the best ideas. They are not interested in having their own way, but in finding the best way. - Commitment To Teamwork The biggest obstacle to overcoming the odds is never challenging them. - Rob Gilbert The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult. - Mme. Du Deffand The great leaders are apt to be found among those who have a strong component of unorthodoxy in their character. Instead of resisting innovation, they symbolize it. - David Ogilvy The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty and truth. - Albert Einstein The mark of a true pro is giving more than you get. - Robert Kirby The most effective way to cope with change is to help create it. - L.W. Lynett The most powerful agent of change is a change of heart. - Gil Atkinson The only people who never fail are those who never try. - Ilka Chase The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't seriously consider them as believable or achievable. - Denis Waitley The three great questions: Why are you here? Where have you been? Where are you going? - Les Brown The time to win your fight is before it starts. - Frederick W. Lewis There comes a moment when you realize that anything is possibleÑthat nothing is too good to be true. - Kobi Yamada There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity. - Douglas MacArthur Things are only impossible until they're not. - Jean-Luc Picard Those whom we support hold us up in life. - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach To change your life, start immediately, do it flamboyantly, no exceptions, no excuses. - William James To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything. - Anatole France We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts. - Madeline L'Engle We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing--our potential--while others judge us by what we have already done--our accomplishments. - Longfellow When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. - Ralph Waldo Emerson When we set goals, they work in two ways: We work on them, and they work on us. - Bob Moawad When you believe in something, and you carry it in your heart, you accept no excuses, only results. - Ken Blanchard When you love your work, it shows. - Audrey Woodhall When you're down to nothing, remember that you really do have the power to make something out of nothing. - Don Ward Whenever the human adventure reaches great and complete expression, we can be sure it is because someone has dared to be his unaverage self. - Rae Noel Wherever you go, go there with all your heart. - William James Wishes cost nothing--unless you want them to come true. - Frank Tyger You do not need to know how youÕre actually going to achieve a goal when you set it. Just repeatedly visualize the desired result, and the "how" will eventually open up to you. - Vince Pfaff You may not be the strongest, the tallest, the fastest, but if you're the person who works the hardest, you're going to get there--one way or another. - Dominque James Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms--if you will only let them! - Diane Roger Your imagination is the true magic carpet. - Norman Vincent Peale You've got to ask for your opportunities! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful--and neglected--secret to success and happiness. - Percy Ross A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people that your heart is at home. - Gil Atkinson A very important part of the joy of living is the joy of giving. - William Buck All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others. - Danny Thomas Be prepared. It's better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it. - Elizabeth Ann Nolan Being courageous requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula, no specail combination of time, place and circumstance. It is an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to us all. - John F. Kennedy By setting exciting worthwhile goals for yourself, you live your life on purpose. - Bob Moawad Dedicate your life to a cause greater than yourself, and your life will become a glorious romance and adventure. - Mack Douglas Cherish your visions, your ideals, the music that stirs in your heart. If you remain true to them, your world will at last be built. - James Allen Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought - A. Szent-Gyorgi Never let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. - John Wooden Never sell tomorrow short. There's plenty to get excited about. Be filled with expectation, hope and confidence. Believe something good is going to happen--and it usually will. - Dr. Robert Schuller Dreams are renewable. No matter what your age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within you and new beauty waiting to be born. - Dr. Dale E. Turner Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. - Louisa May Alcott For every obstacle there is a solution--over, under, around or through. - Dan Zadra Formula for success: Under-promise; and over-deliver. - Tom Peters Give the world the best that you have, and the best will come back to you. - Madeline Bridges Goals give purpose. Purpose gives faith. Faith gives courage. Courage gives enthusiasm. And enthusiasm lifts you over the bar. - Bob Richards, Pole Vaulter Good people are good because theyÕve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. - William Saroyan Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings. - C.D. Jackson Great discoveries and achievements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. - Alexander Graham Bell Help others become what they are capable of becoming. By choosing to think and believe the best about people, you are able to bring out the best in them. - Unknown If I have been able to see farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants. - Sir Isaac Newton Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of yourself and everybody else. Don't let your special character and spirit--the true essence of you--don't let that get beaten down. - Meryl Streep It's better to have the philosophy to out-think your competition than outspend them. - Les Wolff In todayÕs rapidly changing world itÕs not our know-how, itÕs our learn-how, that ensures our continued success in business and in life. - Larry Wilson Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. - Hannah Moore Good work is never done in cold blood; heat is required to forge anything. Every great achievementt is the story of a flaming heart. - A.C. Carlson Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead Most people give up one foot from the winning touchdown. - H. Ross Perot Keep a daily diary of your dreams, goals, and accomplishments. If your life is worth living, it's worth recording. - Marilyn Grey People may doubt what we say, but they always believe what we do. - Don Galer People don't give a hoot about who made the original whatzit. They want to know who makes the best one. - Howard W. Newton People are saying, "I want a company and a job that values me as much as I value it. I want something in my life not just to invest my time in, but to believe in." - Anita Roddick Winners are known as much by the quality of their failure as by the quality of their successes. - Mark McCormack People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in business or in life is to be a good person. - Herbert Spencer An important principle of success is developing the habit of going the extra mile. - Napoleon Hill Success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life, as by the obstacles he or she has overcome while trying to succeed. - Booker T. Washington Success is often just an idea away. - Frank Tyger Spectacular achievement is always preceded by spectacular preparation. - Dr. Robert Schuller Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity. - Lou Holtz Reach beyond your grasp. Your goals should be grand enough to get the best of you. - Teilhard de Chardin Prepare! The time will come when winter will ask you what you wre doing all summer. - Henry Clay Plead guilty and often to loving your family and friends. - Dan Zadra Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now. - Alan Lakein People must believe in each other, and feel that it can be done and must be done; in that way they are enormously strong. We must keep up each other's courage. - Vincent van Gogh The real secret of joy in work is contained in one word---excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. - Pearl Buck The real friend of his country is the person who believes in excellence, seeks for it, fights for it, defends it and tries to produce it. - Morley Callaghan The moment you commit and quit holding back, all sorts of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance will rise up to help you. The simple act of commitment is a powerful magnet for help. - Napoleon Hill The greatest good we can do for others is not to share our riches but to reveal theirs. - B.J. Marshall The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt The first and most important thing about goals is having one. - Geoffrey Abert The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and exactly right. - Edward C. Simmons Three daily reminders: Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Have the courage to do the right thing because it is right. - W. Clement Stone To be courageous requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula. It's an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to us all--and each person must look for that courage in his own soul. - John F. Kennedy To begin is the most important part of any quest, and by far the most courageous. - Plato Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. Believe in what you are doing. - Steve Musseau To every person there comes that special moment when he is 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. - Winston Churchill To get results, decide to have fun. Fun creates enjoyment, which invites participation, which focuses attention, which expands awareness, which promotes insight, which generates knowledge, which facilitates action. And action gets results. - Oswald Shallow To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity. - Donald A. Adams To love what you do and feel that it matters--how could anything be more fun? - Katharine Graham To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings. - Rosabeth Moss Kanter Virtually every great accomplishment or movement was started by someone who believed passionately in something--and someone who believed passionately in that person. - Kelly Catlin Walker Look at things, not just as they are, but as they can be. - David Schwartz What you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe and enthusiastically act upon...must inevitably come to pass. - Paul J. Meyer When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word "succeed," you find it simply means to follow through. - F.W. Nichol Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. - Peter Drucker Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way and who will be sharing the journey with them. - Denis Waitley Successful people have formed the habit of doing the things that unsuccessful people don't do. - Albert Gray You can either take action, or you can hang back and hope for a miracle. Miracles are great, but they are so unpredictable. - Peter Drucker A good laugh is sunshine in a house. - Wiliam Thackeray Joy is not in things, it is in us. - Benjamin Franklin We believe that lives are measured in memories, not years. - Make-A-Wish Foundation Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. - Anais Nin People with goals succeed because they know where they are going. - Earl Nightingale I always believed that if you set out to be successful, then you already are. - Katherine Dunham Those who build the future are those who know that greater things are yet to come. They never stop to doubt. They haven't time. - Melvin Evans If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand, extraordinary things begin to happen. - Loretta Girzartis Believe that there's light at the end of the tunnel. Believe that you might be that light for somebody else. - Kobi Yamada He has achieved success who has gained the love of little children; who has left the world better than he found it; who has looked for the best in others and given the best he had. - A.J. Stanley Courage is grace under pressure. - Ernest Hemingway I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal. I had an ambition to build. - John D. Rockefeller Most of us, swimming against the tides of troubles the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement---and we'll make the goal. - J.P. Fleishman The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you. - Jerry Gillies I believe the highest form of praise you can give any individual is sincere and simple respect. - Carol Tramontana If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in. - Andrew Jackson I think the most significant work we ever do, in the whole world, in our whole life, is done within the four walls of our own home. - Stephen R. Covey It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh This is a wonderful country. This is a great place. Sometimes we don't see it. But I encourage people to look a little bit harder because if you look with your heart, if you look with hope, you will find a people and a country and a world worth living in. - Ron Kovik When building a team, I always search for people who love to win. If I can't find any of those, I look for people who hate to lose. - Ross Perot It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared. - Les Brown If the love of what you're doing exceeds the labor of doing itÉsuccess is inevitable. - Bob Beers One person can make a difference and every person should try. - John F. Kennedy One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests. - John Stuart Hill Visualize this thing that you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint, and begin to build! - Robert Collier When we set exciting worthwhile goals for ourselves, they work in two ways: We work on them, and they work on us. - EDGE Learning Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; can'ts into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it---ink it. - Dan Zadra Surround yourself with people who believe you can. - Dan Zadra I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infintely more important than what I can see. - Duane Michals A frontier is never a place; it is a time, an attitude, and a way of life. - Hal Borland A genius is just a talented person who does his homework. - Thomas Edison Expect the best. Believe something good is going to happen--and it usually will. - Dr. Robert Schuller Long-range goals keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures. - Charles C. Noble Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success. - Henry Ford When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. - Betty Bender My passionate belief is that business can be fun, it can be conducted with love and be a powerful force for good. - Anita Roddick Excellence is not a spectator sport. Everyone's involved. - Jack Welch Set your goals to paper and you're halfway there! - Don Ward I personally don't know how anybody can survive running a successful business in our times without caring. The twin ideals of love and care touch everything we do. - Anita Roddick I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shotÉand missed. I have failed over and over again in my life. And that is whyÉI succeed. - Michael Jordan Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best, and that might as well be you. - Booker T. Washington To my customer: I may not have the answer, but I'll find it. I may not have the time, but I'll make time. I may not be the biggest, but I'll be the most committed to your success. - Dan Zadra It is a fundamental fact of life that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. - Napoleon Hill Winners are not passionate because they are successful--they are successful because they are passionate. - Don Ward "Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow." - Veteran trapeze performer A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. - Henry Ford A dream without a goal is just a wish. - Bill Cole A great leader carries water for his people so they can get on with their jobs. - Robert Townsend A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice. - James Callaghan A mother is a person who, seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. - Tenneva Jordan A pro is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working. - Frank Lloyd Wright A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are made for. - Admiral Grace Hopper Aim so high you'll never be bored. - Linda Gibbons All business proceeds on hopes and beliefs, not on certainties. - W. Clement Stone All glory comes from daring to begin. - Eugene F. Ware Americans will reach the moon by standing on each other's shoulders. - John F. Kennedy An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. - Victor Hugo An original is hard to find but easy to recognize. - John Mason Anyone who says the days of opportunity are over is copping out. - Ann Landers Anything one person can imagine, other people can make real. - Jules Verne Are you in earnest? Then seize this very minute. What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Only engage and then the mind grows heated; only begin, and then the goal will be completed. - J.W. von Goethe At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself. - Albert Enistein Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more. - H.W. Dresser, American Publisher Being defeated is a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. - Marilyn Vos Savant Building a great tradition is more rewarding than simply having one. - J.R. Slaughter Care enough for a result, and you will almost certainly attain it. - William James Careful what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Character is what you are; reputation is what others think you are. Reputation is from other people; character is in you. - Carol O'Reilly Character may be visible in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. - Phillips Brooks Children are the living messages we send to a time and place we will not see. - Linda Mundt Children are to be treated gently. They are like snowflakes--unique, but only here for a while. - Don Ward Children need our love, especially when they don't deserve it. - Harold S. Hulbert Choose to live, work and succeed in the most powerful nation on earth: Imagination. - Dan Zadra Comfort and luxury aren't the chief requirements of life; all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. - Charles Kingsley Contentment: The smother of invention. - Ethel Mumford Creativity is one thing, but innovation is quite another. The innovators are those persistent mavericks who are willing to do whatever it takes to make the great idea a working reality. - Michael LeBoeuf Criticize by creating. - Michelangelo Do what you love to do, and do it so well that those who come to see you do it will bring others to watch you do it again and again and again. - Mark Victor Hanson Do your work with your whole heart and you will succeed--there's so little competition. - Elbert Hubbard Don't be afraid to let a young person run the show. Someone can do a great job with very little experience, provided he or she has a very large heart. - Kobi Yamada Don't just create what the market needs or wants. Create what it would love. - Josh Armstrong Doubt who you will, but never yourself. - Christine Bovee Dreams have as much influence as action. - Stephane Mallarme Dreams not only come true, they can exceed your wildest expectations. - Tiffany Loren Rowe Don't care what others think of what you do. Care very much about what you think you do. - St. Frances DeSalles Empathy is patiently and sincerely seeing the world through the other person's eyes. It is not learned in school; it is cultivated over a lifetime. - Albert Enistein Every act of progress the world has ever known began first with a dreamer. After him came the scientist or statesman, the expert or the technician. But first came the dreamer. - Rabbi Maurice Davis Every really new idea looks crazy at first. - A.H. Maslow Everyone has a purpose. You're not here by mistake. - Ben Morrow Everyone has inside him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't yet realize how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is! - Anne Frank Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. - Martin Luther Everywhere in life the true question is, not what we have gained, but what we do. - Carlyle Faith and doubt are both needed--not as antagonists, but working side by side--to take us around the unknown curve. - Lillian Smith Finite to fail, but infinite to venture. - Emily Dickinson Focused action beats brilliance any day. - Art Turock Follow your dreams. They know the way. - Kobi Yamada Form the habit of saying "Yes" to a good idea. Then write down all the reasons why it will work. There will always be plenty of people around you to tell you why it won't work. - Gil Atkinson Getting ready is the secret to success. - Henry Ford Give the world the best that you have and you may get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best that you have anyway. - The Edge Good things usually begin with a difficulty. Great things invariably begin with an impossibility. - EDGE Keynote Great things are only possible with outrageous requests. - Thea Alexander Hats off to the past. Coats off to the future! - American Proverb He who builds according to everyone's advice will have a crooked house. - Danish Proverb Help a child and you help humanity. - Phillips Brooks Help each other be right, not wrong. Look for ways to make new ideas work, not for reasons they won't. Do everything with enthusiasm, it's contagious. - Ian Percy Hope comes furnished with light and heat. - Gil Atkinson / Don Ward Hope is a risk that must be run. - George Bernanos How exciting are your dreams? Most people donÕt aim too high and miss, they aim too low and hit. - Bob Moawad I believe every person has a heart, and if you can reach it, you can make a difference. - Uli Derickson I believe in hard work. It keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and the spirit. - Helena Rubenstein I believe that a person ought to know what he believes, why he believes it, and then believe it. - Charles "Tremendous" Jones I could use a hundred people who don't know there is such a word as impossible. - Henry Ford I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind. - George Bernard Shaw I get quiet joy from the watching anyone who does his job well. - William Feather I had always wanted an adventurous life. It took a long time to realize that I was the only one who was going to make an adventurous life happen to me. - Richard Bach I had ambition not only to go farther than anyone had ever been, but as far as it was possible to go. - Captain James Cook I learned the hard way that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. - Lucille Ball I love those who yearn for the impossible. - Goethe I went back to being an amateur, in the sense of somebody who loves what she is doing. If a professional loses the love of work, routine sets in, and thatÕs the death of work and of life. - Ade Bethune Idealists, foolish enough to throw caution to the winds, have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. - Emma Goldman Ideas are a dime a dozen, but the men and women who implement them are priceless. - Mary Kay Ash If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. - MIlton Berle If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality. - Norman Cousins If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You just do it one step at a time. - Marian Wright Edelman If you have a company, hire children to sit on your board. Then listen and learn. Their instincts are excellent. They cherish lived-up-to promises and real guarantees. - Faith Popcorn If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. - Henry D. Thoreau If you want to plant for days--plant flowers. If you want to plant for years--plant trees. If you want to plant for life--plant ideas. - Rob Gilbert If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time on them and half as much money. - Abigail Van Buren Imagination is the preview of life's coming attractions. - Larry Eisenberg In business, the value of honesty lies in its irreplaceability. You become what you say, and what you say becomes you. - Paul Hawken In soloing--as in other activities--it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it. - Amelia Earhart In summer I am very glad we children are so small, for we can see a thousand things that men can't see at all. - Laurence Alma-Tadema In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. - Albert Enistein In the morning ask yourself, "What good shall I do today?" As the day draws to a close ask yourself, "What good have I done today?" - Ben Franklin Integrity is telling yourself the truth. Honesty is telling the truth to other people. - Spencer Johnson Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do. - Don Galer It costs nothing to buy a dream...and it is the best investment you can make. - Dr. Robert Schuller It is always essential that we love to do what we are doing, do it with a heart. - Henry David Thoreau, Journal, September 2, 1851 It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is. - George F. Will It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. - George Eliott It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. - Eleanor Roosevelt ItÕs futile to wait for your ship to come in if you haven't sent one out. - EDGE Keynote It's a great satisfaction knowing that for a brief point in time you made a difference. - Irene Natividad It's amazing how lucky I become whenever I consistently put out my best effort. - Cybil Franklin It's important to take pride in what you do or what you stand for. The kind of pride I'm talking about is not the arrogant puffed-up kind; it's just the whole idea of caring---fiercely caring, - Red Aurbach It's the little things in life that lead to the big. - Rose Zadra Knowledge gives weight, but accomplishments give luster. - Lord Chesterfield Leaders are people who focus attention on a vision. They know what they want and are very results-oriented. It's their intense focus on worthwhile outcomes that draws others to them and to their cause. - Warren Bennis Life is in the here and now. Either we meet it, we live it--or we miss it. - Vimala Thakar Life is like the car pool lane. To reach your destination quickly, you have to take some people with you. - Peter Ward Maybe we can't be 100 percent better in any one thing, but we can be 1 percent better in 100 things. - Jan Carlzon More people succeed with great purpose rather than with great talent. - Billy Sunday Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. - Louis Brandeis Most successes have been built on failures; not on one failure alone, but on several. The majority of the great historic accomplishments have been on the final result of a persistent struggle against discouragement and failure. - Charles Gow No matter what business we're in, the goal is quality and the challenge is reaching it. - Fred Smith (Founder of FedEx) No one can be the best at everything. But when all of us combine our talents, we can be the best at virtually anything. - Dan Zadra Not to go out and do your best is to sacrifice your gift. - Steve Prefontaine Nothing is so strong as gentleness. - Don Ward Nothing much happens without a dream. For something really great to happen, it takes a really great dream. - Robert Greenleaf Once we are confident of our goal, all we need is a little support. - Andre Laurendeau One step by 100 persons is better than 100 steps by one person. - Koichi Tsukamoto Opportunity's favorite disguise is trouble. - Anon Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing great can be done without it. - Helen Keller Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties and obstacles vanish. - John Quincy Adams Success has less to do with speed and more to do with direction. - B.J. Marshall Success is failure turned inside out. - Unknown Success is the side-effect of your personal dedication to a course greater than yourself. - Viktor Frankl Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton The best leaders are not interested in selling their own ideas, but in finding the best ideas. They are not interested in having their own way, but in finding the best way. - Commitment To Teamwork The best minute I spend is the one I invest in people. - Ken Blanchard The best use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. - William James The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it. - Alan Saporta The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. - Dr. Linus Pauling The biggest obstacle to overcoming the odds is never challenging them. - Rob Gilbert The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult. - Mme. Du Deffand The five happiest people I have ever met all had this strange little quirk of referring to their jobs as a "calling." - Eric Sevareid The future never just happened. It was created. - Will and Ariel Durant The great leaders are apt to be found among those who have a strong component of unorthodoxy in their character. Instead of resisting innovation, they symbolize it. - David Ogilvy The highest reward for a person's work is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. - John Ruskin 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 Enistein The mark of a true pro is giving more than you get. - Robert Kirby