QuotesSuccess

Accomplishments : Accomplishments Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. --Helen Keller No matter what accomplishments you achieve, somebody helped you.  -Althea Gibson


Achievement : Achievement Don't mistake activity for achievement.  Business does not equal productiveness. Anon The greatest achievements are those that benefit others. Dennis Waitley


Act : Act Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.   George W. Crane Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.--Charles F. Kettering


Action : Action Action conquers fear. Peter N. Zarlenga We are all artists, creating our masterpiece with the brush-stroke of each action.    L. Walkup


Action : Action Action conquers fear.--Peter N. Zarlenga We are all artists, creating our masterpiece with the brush-stroke of each action.    L. Walkup


Advancing : Advancing No matter how much a man can do, no matter how engaging his personality may be, he will not advance far in business if he cannot work through others. John Craig


Affluence : Affluence True affluence is not needing anything. Gary Snyder 


Agreement : Agreement If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less...angry feeling in the world.  Joseph Addison


Anger : Anger Whatever begins in anger ends in shame. Ben Franklin


Answer : Answer It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. Eugene Ionesco, dramatist


Antagonist : Antagonist He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill.  Our antagonist is our helper.      Edmund Burke


Apology : Apology Never ruin an apology with an excuse.  Kimberly Johnson


Architects : Architects Don't be prisoner of your past, but the architect of your future. anon Every man is the architect of his own fortune. Sallust


Asking : Asking By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.  -- Italian Proverb He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. -Chinese proverb.


Aspiration : Aspiration You will become as small as your controlling desire; or as great as your dominant aspiration. -- James Allen


Attempts : Attempts In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail. Cassius Longinus, Roman General


Attitude : Attitude It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome. -- William James Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. --Dr. Norman Vincent Peale         


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


Being : Being A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.  --Abraham Maslow


Beginning : Beginning The first step is the hardest. Madame De Vichy-Deffand Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.        Liz Smith


Beginning : Beginning The beginning is half of every action. --Greek proverb Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake. Marie Beyon Ra


Being : Being It is never too late to be what we might have been.                --  George Eliot


Belief in Self : Belief in Self People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success. Norman Vincent Peale


Best : Best When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.  William Arthur Ward We have to do the best we can.  This is our sacred human responsibility.        Albert Einstein


Blessings : Blessings The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. Anonymous


Brains : Brains I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.  Woodrow Wilson


Bridges : Bridges The bridges you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.  Gene Brown.


Burden : Burden No one is useless in the world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else. Charles Dickens


Capacity : Capacity To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities. Johann von Wolfgang Goethe


Caution : Caution He that is overcautious will accomplish little.   J.C.F. von Schiller


Challenge : Challenge Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what makes you go beyond the norm.-- Cicely Tyson A feeling of confidence and personal power comes from facing challenges and overcoming them. -- Brian Tracy


Challenge : Challenge Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.-- General George S. Patton


Champ : Champ To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.  Sugar Ray Robinson


Chance : Chance Chance favors the prepared  mind.  Louis Pasteur


Change : Change The entire sea is altered by a single stone. Pascal The key to change . . . is to let go of fear. --Rosanne Cash


Change : Change Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.--Carol Burnett Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. --Arnold Bennett


Change : Change Change brings opportunity. Nido Qubein In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action. Brian Tracy


Change : Change For many people, change is more threatening than challenging.  They see it as the destroyer of what is familiar and comfortable rather than the creator of what is new and exciting.-- Nido Qubein


Change : Change Nothing will change until You change at least one thing. What is that thing? L. N. Walkup


Change : Change Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world.  Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.  Eleanor Roosevelt


Character : Character Character is the ability to carry out a worthy decision after the emotion of making that decision has passed. Hyrum W. Smith


Character : Character Character is the ability to follow through on a resolution long after the emotion with which it was made has passed. -- Brian Tracy


Character : Character A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune. Publilius Syrus A man's character and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding that was done during the growing season. --W.F.C., in the Houston Post


Characcter : Characcter Our character is basically a composite of our habits.Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character... Stephen Covey


Character : Character Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. John Wooden


Choices : Choices All that you now have is the sum of choices you have made in the past.  All that you will create in the future is the sum of choices you make from this moment on. Skip Downing


Choices : Choices I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude  Judith M. Knowlton It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. last chapter.


Circumstances : Circumstances Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.  --Samuel Lover


Circumstances : Circumstances Our present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.-- Nido Qubein


Circumstances : Circumstances The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. George Bernard Shaw


Circumstances : Circumstances Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creatures of man.  Benjamin Disraeli


Coffee  : Coffee  If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee.  Sydney Smith


Comfortable : Comfortable Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable.  It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.  Peter McWilliams


Communication : Communication The most important thing in communication  is to hear what isn't being said.  Peter F. Drucker


Communication : Communication The metacommunicational axiom of the pragmatics of communication can be postulated: one cannot not communicate. Watzlawick P., Beavin, J., & Jackson, D. (1967). The pragmatics of human communication (pp. 51). New York: W.W. Norton


Confidence : Confidence As is our confidence, so is our capacity.  William Hazlitt


Contentment : Contentment Nothing will content him who is not content with a little.  --Greek proverb True contentment . . . is getting out of any situation all that there is in it.  --G. K. Chesterton


Courage : Courage You become courageous by doing courageous acts...  Courage is a habit.  Mary Daly Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. Raymond Linquist


Courage : Courage Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. --Clare Booth Luce Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.-Ambrose Redmoon


Courage : Courage To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed. -- Bernard Edmonds


Courage : Courage Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.  -- Mark Twain (1835-1910)  It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh


Courage : Courage To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed. -- Bernard Edmonds


Courage : Courage Courage is your willingness to take action with no guarantee of results. -- Brian Tracy Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. Winston Churchill


Courtesy : Courtesy Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. it is the cheapest of the pleasures: costs nothing and conveys much. Erastus Wilman


Cowards : Cowards Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.: Julius Caesar / Shakespeare 


Credit : Credit It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.  Harry S. Truman 


Critic : Critic A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.   -- Kenneth Tynan


Criticize : Criticize He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help. Abraham Lincoln


Dare : Dare Only those who dare, truly live. Ruth Freedman


Days : Days Make each day count, but don't count each day. How we spend our days is how we spend our lives.      --  Annie Dilliard


Days : Days A day will never be anymore than what you make of it. Practice being a 'doer'!      Josh S. Hinds


Decisions : Decisions Once a decision was made, I did not worry about it afterward.  --Harry S. Truman It's in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. -- Anthony Robbins


Deeds  : Deeds  Men are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.-Moliere


Defeat : Defeat What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better. --Wendell Phillips


Desire : Desire Lord grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.  Michelangelo It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires.  --Rebecca West


Desire : Desire There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. whatever it takes. Jan Ashford


Destiny : Destiny Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice.  William Jennings Bryant


Destiny : Destiny Decisions determine destiny.  --Frederick Speakman. To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny. -- Alan Cohen


Destiny : Destiny Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.                  --  Jeremy Kitson


Destiny : Destiny Decisions determine destiny.  --Frederick Speakman.


Destiny : Destiny To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not our destiny. -- Alan Cohen


Destiny : Destiny Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.   Jeremy Kitson


Difficulties : Difficulties There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. --Phyllis Bottome


Difficulties : Difficulties The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price  we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of  tomorrow. - William J.H. Boetcker    


Difficulties : Difficulties Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. Edward R. Murrow    


Difficulties : Difficulties The best way out of a difficulty is through it --Anon. Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. William Channing


Difficulties : Difficulties Welcome difficulties and obstacles as valuable steps in the ladder to success. -- Brian Tracy


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


Diplomat and Tact : Diplomat and Tact A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell - in such a way - that you'll actually look forward to the trip.  (Caskie Stinnet, Out of the Red, Random House , 1960) Tact is the ability not to say what you really think. Tact is the unsaid part of what you think


Direction : Direction You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight. - Jim Rohn


Dirt : Dirt He that flings dirt at another dirties himself most. -- Thomas Fuller


Discipline : Discipline Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure. -- Jim Rohn


Discontent : Discontent Restlessness is discontent, and discontent is the first necessity of progress. -- Thomas Edison


Discouragement : Discouragement History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.  --Bertie Charles Forbes, Publisher


Discovery : Discovery I invent nothing. I rediscover.  -- Auguste Rodin Mistakes are the portals of discovery.  --James Joyce


Discovery : Discovery Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.   Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi


Disposition : Disposition The greatest part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.  Martha Washington


Disposition : Disposition The world improves people according to the dispositions they bring into it.-- Renier Guistina Michiel


Distress : Distress Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.  -- Herbert Gasser


Doing : Doing Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.  Theodore Roosevelt


Doing : Doing Don't just do something, sit there! Sit there long enough each morning to decide what is really important during the day ahead. -- Richard Eyre


Doing : Doing The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.       --  Mary Frances Berry


Doing : Doing You do what you have to do, to do what you want to do.  Patricia Fripp 


Dog : Dog If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principle difference between a dog and a man.   Mark Twain (1835-1910)


Doing : Doing Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. - John Wooden We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough... What do you most want to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.  --Katherine Mansfield


Doing : Doing What one has to do usually can be done.  --Eleanor Roosevelt The way to do well is to do well. Donald Rumsfeld (Rummy's Rules by  Kinney Bennett)


Doing : Doing It is not what happens that determines the major part of your future.  What happens, happens to us all.  It is what you do about what happens that counts.-- Jim Rohn


Doing : Doing You have not lived a perfect day, even though you earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.  --Ruth Smeltzer


Doing : Doing To love what you do, and feel that it matters. How could anything be more fun? Katherine Graham


Done : Done The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. -- Emerson Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do.  --John Milton 


Dream : Dream Some dream worthy accomplishments; other stay awake and do them. If you want your dreams to come true, don't sleep.  Yiddish proverb


Dream : Dream Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.  --Ralph Vaull Starr Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird, that cannot fly. -- Langston Hughes


Dream : Dream Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible. -- Robert Schuller


Dream : Dream I have learned this at least by my experiment: that 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


Dream : Dream It may be those  who do most, dream most. Stephen Ecock Dreams do not vanish, so long as people do not abandon them. --Phantom F. Harlock


Dream : Dream The future belongs to those who believe in their dreams.                --  Eleanor Roosevelt


Dream : Dream Reach high, for stars hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for  every dream precedes the goal. Pamela Star Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. -- James Dean


Dream : Dream A person with big dreams is more powerful than a person with all the facts. -- Dayle Maloney When you cease to dream you cease to live. -- Malcolm S.Forbes


Dream : Dream We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them, nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope their dreams will come true.- Woodrow Wilson


Dreams : Dreams Dreams expand our universe. Dreams are the heart. Goals focus on performance. Goals are on spreadsheets. Phil Humbert


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


Dream : Dream He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.  Dream lofty dreams and as you dream so shall you become... -- James Allen


Dream : Dream Nothing happens unless first a dream.  --Carl Sandburg


Dream : Dream A dream without a goal is just a wish. Bill Cole


Dream : Dream 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


Dream : Dream There are some people who live in a dream world, and thereare some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. -- Douglaus Everett


Dream : Dream The future belongs to those who believe in their dreams.   --  Eleanor Roosevelt Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. --Goethe


Dream : Dream Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. -- George Bernard Shaw


Dream : Dream It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier. Desiring is helpful, but work and desire are invincible.   --  Thomas Robert Gaines


Dumb Question : Dumb Question Don't be afraid to ask dumb questions. They're more easily handled than dumb mistakes.  --William Wister Hanes, in "High Tension" (Little, Brown)


Dream : Dream I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams. -- Dr. Jonas Salk


Dream : Dream 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. - Douglaus Everett  


Dream : Dream The future belongs to those who believe in their dreams.   --  Eleanor Roosevelt


Dream : Dream Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness  has genius, power and magic in it. --Goethe


Dream : Dream Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. -- George Bernard Shaw


Dream : Dream It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work.   Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier.   Desiring is helpful, but work and desire are invincible.    --  Thomas Robert Gaines


Dream : Dream Hold on to your dreams for they are, in a sense, the stuff  of which reality is made. It is through our dreams that we  maintain the possibility of a better, more meaningful life. - Leo Buscaglia


Dream : Dream  person with big dreams is more powerful than a person  with all the facts. - Dayle Maloney  


Dumb Questions : Dumb Questions  Don't be afraid to ask dumb questions. They're more easily  handled than dumb mistakes.  --William Wister Hanes, in "High Tension" (Little, Brown)


Education : Education A good education is another name for happiness.  Plato


Education : Education Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey


Education : Education Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. Alexander Pope


Education : Education Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer - into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. Nancy Astor


Education : Education The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. -Robert Maynard Hutchins.


Education : Education Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of the educated man.  Norman Cousins


Education : Education Perhaps the most valuable result of al education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.  Thomas Huxley (1825-1895)


Education : Education Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been  forgotten. --B. F. Skinner


Education : Education The end and aim of all education is the development of character.  Francis W. Parker


Education : Education Education is the best provision for old age.  Aristotle


Education : Education Training is anchored to the past.  Education looks toward  the future. -- Nido Qubein


Effort : Effort Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the  key to unlocking our potential. Winston Churchill


Endurance : Endurance To endure what is unendurable is true endurance.


Enduring : Enduring He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.  --Yiddish proverb


Enthusiasm : Enthusiasm Enthusiasm is the element of success in everything. It is  the light that leads and the strength that lifts people on and up in the great struggles of scientific pursuits and of  professional labor.  --Bishop Doane


Enthusiasm : Enthusiasm Enthusiasm is the element of success in everything. It is  the light that leads and the strength that lifts people on and up in the great struggles of scientific pursuits and of  professional labor.  --Bishop Doane


Emotion : Emotion Every great, successful person I know shares the capacity to remain centered, clear and powerful in the midst of emotional  storms. Anthony Robbins.


Environment : Environment You are a produce of your environment.  So choose the environment that will best develop you  toward your objective.  W. Clement Stone


Every Day : Every Day The virtue of man ought to be measured, not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his everyday conduct.  Blaise Pascal


Excuse : Excuse Hold yourself responsible to a higher standard than anybody else expects of you; never excuse yourself.  Henry Ward Beecher              


Experience : Experience Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards. -- Vernon Saunders Law


Experience : Experience There is only one thing more painful than learning  from experience and that is not learning from experience.  --Archibald McLeish, Poet


Evaluation Criteria : Evaluation Criteria There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say,  and how we say it.- Dale Carnegie


Excellence : Excellence The noblest search is the search for excellence.   Lyndon B. Johnson


Excellence : Excellence Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way. Booker T. Washington


Excellence : Excellence Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.  John Gardner


Excellence : Excellence The greatest enemy of excellence is good. Zig Ziglar


Excellence : Excellence Don't  try to become great; be great now, and discover that excellence is a reward you don't need others to confirm.  Guy Finley


Excellence : Excellence Excellence is  the result of  caring more than others think is wise; risking more than others think is safe; dreaming more than others think is practical, and expecting more than others think is possible. (anon)


Excellence : Excellence I am always careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business. Michael Fox


Excellence : Excellence Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better. Pat Riley


Excellence : Excellence There is no real excellence in all this world which  can be separated from right living. David Starr Jordan


Excellent : Excellent The excellent   becomes the permanent.   Jane Addams


Excellent : Excellent I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether a field, or a home, or a country.   Thornton Wilder


Excellent : Excellent Excellence is the unlimited ability  to improve the quality of what you have to offer. Rick Pitino


Excellence : Excellence The price of excellence is discipline.  The cost of mediocrity is disappointment. William A. Ward


Excellence : Excellence 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


Excellemce : Excellemce If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work. Thomas J. Watson, Sr.


Excuses : Excuses 99% of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses – George Washington Carver


Excuses : Excuses He that is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else. -- Benjamin Franklin  


Executive Ability : Executive Ability Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.  -- J. G. Pollard


Expectations : Expectations I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.  -- Fritz Perls 


Experience : Experience Just when you think you've graduated from the school of experience, someone thinks up a new course.  Mary H. Waldrip


Experience : Experience .Experience is what you get, when you do not get what you want. anon


Experience : Experience Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. Rodin


Experience : Experience There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience. --Archibald McLeish


Expression : Expression Your expression is the most important thing you can wear.  Sid Ascher


Facts : Facts It is not so very important for a person to learn facts.  For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.  Albert Einstein (1879-1955) 


Henry Ford : Henry Ford Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.   -- Henry Ford  


Failure : Failure Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.  -- Mike Murdock


Failure : Failure Failing to plan is planning to fail Alan Lakein


Failure : Failure 99% of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. -- George Washington Carver


Failure : Failure Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fail . - Ralph Waldo Emerson


Failure : Failure Success has made failures of many men.  Cindy Adams


Failure : Failure There is no failure except in no longer trying.  --Elbert Hubbard.  


Failure : Failure Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker.  Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour,  not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by   saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. -- Denis Waitley


Failure : Failure A failure is a man who has blundered but is not capable of  cashing in on the experience. Elbert Hubbard


Failure : Failure I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I  succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I   can fail and keep on trying. -- Tom Hopkins


Fail : Fail I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000l-step process. -- Thomas A. Edison


Failing : Failing Failing to plan means planning to fail. What are your  goals? -- Brian Tracy


Failure : Failure Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail  overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. -- Jim Rohn


Faith : Faith Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is  always destructive.  --David S. Muzzey, Author


Faith : Faith Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement.   Thomas N. Carruther


Fall : Fall Fall seven times, stand up eight. --Japanese proverb


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


Fate : Fate We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.  --Henry Miller


Fear : Fear All forms of fear produce fatigue. -- Bertrand Russell.


Failure : Failure I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please   everybody.  -- Bill Cosby


Fear : Fear Nothing in life is to be feared.  It is only to be understood.  Marie Curie


Fear : Fear The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared by everybody. -J. C. F. von Schiller.


Fear : Fear Action conquers fear. --Peter N. Zarlenga


Fear : Fear Fear less, hope more;  Whine less, breathe more;  Talk less, say more;  Hate less, love more;  And all good things are yours.  -Swedish Proverb, on Life.


Fear : Fear The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.   Franklin D. Roosevelt


Fear : Fear The most drastic and usually the most effective remedy for  fear is direct action. -- William Burnham


Fist : Fist When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand. -- Alex Haley


Fool : Fool Every American has the right to make a fool of himself if he wants, but too many abuse it.


Fools : Fools Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own.  H.G. Bohn


Fool : Fool A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .  -- Unknown.


First Step : First Step First Step  Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.                 --  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.


Forgiveness : Forgiveness The weak can never forgive.  Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. --Mahatma Gandhi


Forgiving : Forgiving Forgiving those who hurt us is the key to personal peace .--G. Weatherly


Fragrance : Fragrance The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.  Hada Bejar     


Freedom : Freedom Freedom unexercised may become freedom forfeited.  -- Margaret Chase Smith.


Friendship : Friendship Every true friend is a glimpse of God. Lucy Larcom


Friends : Friends When friends meet, hearts warm.  Proverb


Friends : Friends No person is you friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.  --Alice Walker, American writer


Friends : Friends Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.  --Edgar Watson Howe


Friends : Friends The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other, but never ask it.   Sylvia Bromer


Friends : Friends A person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer.  Three are even better for a triple braided cord is not easily broken. Ecclesiastes 4:12


Friends : Friends Two are better than one....If one person falls, the other can read out and help.  But people who are alone when they fall are in real trouble.  Ecclesiastes 4:9-10


Friends : Friends Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. -- Anais Nin


Friendship : Friendship Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.  --Socrates


Friends : Friends True friends don't spend time gazing into each other's eyes. They may show great tenderness toward each other, but they face the same direction - toward common projects, interests, goals - above all toward a common Lord - C.S.Lewis


Friends : Friends One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.  Seneca


Friends : Friends I find friendship to be the true...restorative cordial.  Thomas Jefferson


Friends : Friends Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs. H.G. Bohn


Friendship : Friendship  Friendship renders prosperity more brilliant, while it lightens adversity by sharing it and making its burden common.  Cicero


Friends : Friends We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindnesses there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.     James Boswell


Frustrations : Frustrations One of the sources of pride in being a human being is the ability to bear present frustrations in the interests of longer purposes .--Helen Merrell Lynd


Future : Future The future is no more uncertain than the present. -- Walt Whitman


Future : Future Our task is not to fix the blame for the past, but to fix  the course for the future.  --John F. Kennedy


Future : Future I think all of us are looking at the future with yesterday's eyes -- Dan Burrus


Future : Future Since you can't predict the future, create it.  Peter Drucker


Future : Future The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.  Eleanor Roosevelt


Future : Future The reason why most people face the future with  apprehension instead of anticipation is because they don't  have it well designed. -- Jim Rohn


Garden : Garden We must cultivate our garden. --Voltaire 


Genius : Genius Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.   Elbert Hubbard


Genius : Genius Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration. -- Thomas Edison Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration. Einstein


Genius : Genius You are a potential genius -- the number of ideas you can  suggest for improvement are virtually unlimited. -- Brian Tracy


Genius : Genius A genius is a talented person who does his homework. Thomas Edison


Getting : Getting The law of self-fulfilling prophecy says that you get what you expect.  So why not create great expectations and the  highest vision possible of yourself and your world? --  Mark Victor Hansen


Getting Along : Getting Along The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people .--Theodore Roosevelt


Gift : Gift The greatest gift we can give one another is rapt attention to one another's existence.  Sue Ebaugh


Gift : Gift Time is the most precious gift we can give to another.


Giving : Giving Are you more thrilled about what is given to your life than what you give through your life? Doug Firebaugh


Goal : Goal The most important thing about goals is having one.  -- Geoffrey Albert


Goal : Goal A dream without a goal is just a wish. Bill Cole


Goal : Goal Goal setting is the core of existence that defines life. Joanne Bonomi


Goals : Goals Goals are simply a way of breaking a vision into smaller,  workable units .-- Nido Qubein  


Goal : Goal Yesterday's passions may not serve tomorrow's goals . Frederic Hudson


Goals : Goals Short-term goals are the stepping stones to the bigger ones. Beth Pugh


Slide261 : Setting a goal is not the main thing.  It is deciding how you will go about achieving  it and staying with that plan.  Tom Landry


Going Down : Going Down Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.  --Muhammad Ali


Good : Good Good is not good, where better is expected.  --Thomas Fuller 


Good Enough : Good Enough Good enough never is . Debbi Field


Gossip : Gossip My life changed for the better the day I realized that when I gossiped, it ultimately hurt me much more than it hurt the person about whom I gossiped. -- Bob Burg


Gratitude : Gratitude Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.   -Cicero 


Great Spirits : Great Spirits Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds - Albert Einstein  


Great things : Great things Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed. --Vincent van Gogh


Great Opportunities : Great Opportunities If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way. Don't wait for great opportunities. Seize common everyday ones and make them great. Napoleon Hill.


Greatness : Greatness A great man is always willing to be little.  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson


Greatness : Greatness All greatness is achieved while performing outside your comfort zone. Greg Arnold


Great : Great Some are born great. some achieve greatness, and some have public relations writers. Daniel J. Boorstin


Greatness : Greatness Stay focused on your journey to greatness. Les Brown


Greatness : Greatness When you pursue greatness, you represent the courage that others don't have. Jame Ray


Group : Group People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about. -Franklin Delano Roosevelt                                 


Growth : Growth All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. -- Ellen Glasgow


Growth : Growth Those who base their lives on the belief that a loving God  is acting in their behalf tend to see problems as  opportunities for growth. - Nido Qubein


Habit : Habit We are what we repeatedly do.  Excellence, therefore, is not an act; it is a habit.  Aristotle


Habits : Habits We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. John Dryden


Habits : Habits To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits. anon


Habits : Habits Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding. -- Harvey Mackay


Habits : Habits Good habits form the basis of a healthy and productive life. In short, we are what we continuously do.  inyouremail.com


Habits : Habits The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. -- Samuel Johnson


Habits : Habits It is a matter of no little importance what sort of habits we form from the earliest age - it makes a vast difference, or rather all the difference in the world.  Aristotle


Habits : Habits The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance. Honore De Balzac (1799-1850), French novelist


Habits : Habits Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Mark Twain  (1835-1910)


Habits : Habits The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion. Stephen Biko (1946–1977), South African political leader. Interview, July 1976.


Habits : Habits Education is the formation of habits. Thomas Huxley


Habits : Habits Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them; they are their true clothes. Henry David Thoreau


Habits : Habits Out of our beliefs are born deeds; out of our deeds we form habits; out of our habits grows our character; and on our character we build our destiny. Henry Hancock, Dean, St Mark’s Cathedral, Minneapolis MN


Habits : Habits Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful—the formation of fixed habits of work. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911), U.S. novelist


Habits : Habits Sew a thought, and you reap an act;  Sew an act, and you reap a habit;  Sow a habit, and you reap a character;  Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.  Samuel Smiles


Happiness : Happiness One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.  Anatole France


Happiness : Happiness Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul Sir William Osler


Happiness : Happiness One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way. -- Isabelle Eberhardt


Happiness : Happiness Happiness is good health and a bad memory.  Ingrid Bergman


Happiness : Happiness To be happy, drop the words 'if only,' and substitute  instead the words 'next time.   --Dr. Smiley Blanton


Happiness : Happiness Happiness is the by-product of living a good life. Aristotle


Happiness : Happiness To have joy one must share it - Happiness was born a twin.  Lord Byron


Happiness : Happiness Happiness is good health and a bad memory.  --Ingrid Bergman.


Happiness : Happiness Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for  what we want eventually. Stephen Covey


Happiness : Happiness Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its  counterfeit. -- Hosea Ballou


Happiness : Happiness To make a man happy, fill his hands with work.  -- Frederick E. Crane


Happiness : Happiness Happiness is a function of accepting what is.  --Werner Erhard


Happiness : Happiness I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events  of life than on the nature of those events themselves.  Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt


Happiness : Happiness A grateful heart is a happy heart. L. Walkup


Happiness : Happiness Very little is needed to make a happy life.   Marcus Aurelius


Harm : Harm The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is....Nothing should be able to harm a man but  himself....What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance. --Oscar Wilde                 


Harvest : Harvest Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant Robert Louis Stevenson                                 


Haste : Haste Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.  --John Wesley


Hatred : Hatred Hatred is the most destructive force on earth.  It does the most damage to those who harbor it. -- Nido Qubein


Hatred : Hatred Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.  --George Bernard Shaw  


Having it : Having it He who would have fruit must climb the tree.  --Thomas Fuller


Heart : Heart Hardening of the heart ages people more quickly than hardening of the arteries


Help : Help The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for  help when he needs it.  --Rona Barrett


Heroes : Heroes If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.  Mark Twain


Hesitation : Hesitation To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its  undoing. -- Eva Young.


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


Hope : Hope Hope is a waking dream. Aristotle


Hope : Hope Optimism is faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. Helen Keller


Hours : Hours What counts is not the number of hours you put in, but how much you put in the hours. Anon


Humor : Humor If you could choose one characteristic that would get you  through life, choose a sense of humor. --Jennifer Jones


Hustles : Hustles Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.   Henry Ford


Ideas : Ideas Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. Oliver Wendell  Holmes


Ideas : Ideas The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them  from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use? -- Dale Carnegie


Idea : Idea No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come. -- Victor Hugo


Idea : Idea A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it. - Marcel Proust  


Ideas : Ideas Ideas are initially rejected, slowly embraced and gradually accepted until everyone finally says, 'I've always believed that.‘ -- Mark Victor Hansen


Idea : Idea If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk .--Raymond Inmon


Ideal : Ideal Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come. --Janet Erskine Stuart


Ideal : Ideal Let our purpose be ideal and our action be practical. Sir Wilfred Laurier


Ignorance : Ignorance It takes a lot of things to prove