One’s best success comes after their greatest disappointments — Henry Ward Beecher

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth — Franklin D. Roosevelt

If standard of living is your major objective, quality of life almost never improves, but if quality of life is your number one objective, your standard of living almost always improves — Zig Ziglar

Always do right – this will gratify some and astonish the rest — Mark Twain

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That’s what a reputation is. You can’t control that. The only thing you can control is your character. — Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

Nothing great has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe something inside them was superior to circumstances — Bruce Barton

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character — Henry Clay

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him — Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow — Abraham Lincoln

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at — Goethe

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at — Goethe

It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart — Anne Frank

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved — Helen Keller

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying — Ralph Waldo Emerson

That which does not kill me, makes me stronger A SEAL Team saying, — Frederick Nietzsche

When a company or an individual compromises one time, whether it’s on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the corner — Zig Ziglar

Kindness in words creates confidence Kindness in thinking creates profoundness Kindness in giving creates love — Lao-Tzu

If people like you they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you they’ll do business with you — Zig Ziglar

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle — Plato

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated — Lou Holtz

A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child. — The Knights of Pythagoras

If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow — Chinese Proverb

Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked and never well mended. — Old Folk Saying

What you do off the job is determining factor In how far you will go on the job — Zig Ziglar

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. — Aesop

If we can implant in our people the Christian virtues which we sum up in the word character, and, at the same time, give them a knowledge of the line which should be drawn between voluntary action and governmental compulsion in a democracy, and of what ca — Winthrop Williams Aldrich

Don’t accept that others know you better than yourself. ?Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will?inevitably bring about right results. — James Allen

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality?of the mind next to honor. — James Allen

The moment a question comes to your mind, see yourself mentally taking hold of it and disposing of it. In that moment is your choice made. Thus you learn to take the path to the right. Thus you learn to become the decider and not the vacillator. Thus you — H. Van Anderson

A person shows what he is by what he does with what he has. — Anonymous

Keep your thinking right And your business will be right — Zig Ziglar

At a distance from home a man is judged by what he means — Anonymous

Character is a diamond that scratches every other stone. — Anonymous

Character is a victory, not a gift. — Anonymous

Character, like a kettle, once mended, always requires repairs. — Anonymous

I am building a character that shall never know completion.May I, as the days come and go, ever draw nearer to God through service to His children. — Anonymous

Ability can take you the top, but it takes character to keep you there — Zig Ziglar

Reputation is the shell a man discards when he leaves life for immortality. His character he takes with him. — Anonymous

Reputation is what the world thinks a man is; character is what he really is. — Anonymous

Though a man without money is poor, a man with nothing but money is still poorer. Worldly gifts cannot bear up the spirits from fainting and sinking when trials and troubles come, any more than headache can be cured by a golden crown or toothache by a cha — Anonymous

When I do right, no one remembers. When I do wrong, no one ever forgets. — Anonymous

When small men begin to cast long shadows, it is a sure sign that the sun is setting. — Anonymous

You can tell what a man is by what he does when he hasn?t anything to do. — Anonymous

You can’t measure the heart of a champion. — Anonymous

The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to his or her commitment to excellence, regardless of his or chosen field of endeavor — Zig Ziglar

You don?t have to tell it, it shows in your face — Anonymous

If you are not leaning, no one will let you down. — Dr. Robert Anthony

Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy soul?for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then, with a continuous series of such thoughts as these?that where a man can live, there if he will, he can also live well. — Marcus Antonius

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

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.Aristotle — Aristotle

Good habits are not made on birthdays, nor Christian character at the new year. The workshop of character is everyday life. The uneventful and commonplace hour is where the battle is lost or won. — Maltbie Davenport Babcock

A character standard is far more important than even a gold standard. The success of all economic systems is still dependent upon both righteous leaders and righteous people. In the last analysis, our national future depends upon our national character — Roger Ward Babson

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness. — Faith Baldwin

As diamond cuts diamond, and one hone smoothes a second, all the parts of intellect are whetstones to each other; and genius, which is but the result of their mutual sharpening, is character, too. — H. W. Bartol

No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has. — Henry Ward Beecher

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones — Phillips Brooks

Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty. — Phillips Brooks

Sad is the day for any man when he becomes absolutely satisfied with the life he is living, the thoughts that he is thinking and the deeds that he is doing; when there ceases to be forever beating at the doors of his soul a desire to do something larger w — Phillips Brooks

Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or — Phillips Brooks

You build a successful carreer, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job — Zig Ziglar

Even as water carves monuments of stone, so do our thoughts shape our character — Hugh B. Brown

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. — Jackson Browne

It is an old saying, and one of fearful and fathomless import, that we are forming characters for eternity. Form- ing characters? Whose? Our own or others? Both?and in that momentous act lies the peril and responsibility of our existence. — Elihu Burritt

A man?s got to know his limitations. — Harry Callahan

All honor?s wounds are self-inflicted. — Andrew Carnegie

The higher up you go, the more gentle you have to reach down to help other people? succeed — Rick Castro

After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one — Cato the Elder

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no other is, and to do what no other can do. — William Ellery Channing

Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word — Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield

He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence. — Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Cheserfield

When you exercise your freedom to express yourself at the lowest level, you ultimately condemn yourself to live at that level — Zig Ziglar

The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom — Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield

The real long term objective of the Welfare Plan is the fulfilling of character in the members of the Church, givers and receivers, rescuing all that is finest down deep inside of them, and bringing to flower and fruit age the latent richness of the Spirit. — J. Reuben Clark Jr.

A nation’s character is the sum of its splendid deeds; they constitute one common patrimony, the nation’s inheritance. They awe foreign powers, they arouse and animate our own people — Henry Clay

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character. — Henry Clary

Our own heart, and not other men’s?opinions, forms our true honor. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There are two types of people ? those who come into a room and say, ‘Well, here I am!’ and those who come in and say, ‘Ah, there you are. — Frederick L. Collins

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

It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall b e rendered capable of apply — Confucius

We do not need more national development, we need more spiritual development. We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more knowledge, we need more character. We do not need more law, we need more religion. We d — John Calvin Coolidge

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us man hood or womanhood fibre. — Dr. Frank Crane

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better. — John Dewey

Character isn’t inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains. — Helen Douglas

To the pure geometer the radius of curvature is an incidental characteristic ? like the grin of the Cheshire cat. To the physicist it is an indispensable characteristic. It would be going too far to say that to the physicist the cat is merely incidental t — Sir Arthur Anthony Eddington

With integrity you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide.With integrity you will do the right thing,so you will have no guilt.With fear and guilt removed you are free to be and do your best — Zig Ziglar

Character, says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms–character is destiny?. — George Elliot

Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then?all goes well ? he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you would not be known to do anything, never do it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-trust is the essence of heroism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us — Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who you are is speaking so loudly that I can’t hear what you’re saying. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onwa — Henry Ford

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged. — Benjamin Franklin

Character is not made in a crisis it is only exhibited. — Robert Freeman

Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; the power to do what seems to him to be right, without considering what others may sa — John Galsworthy

A No uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a ?Yes? merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble. — Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Integrity is the foundation upon which all other values are built — Brian Tracy

One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole. — Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls?back on himself. He imposes his own stamp?of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it?his own. — General Charles DeGaulle

Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the only thing you’ll have left is your character. — Vince Gill

We are where we are, as we are, because of what we are. — Earle J. Glade

Character develops itself in the stream of life. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Genius develops in quiet places, Character out in the full current of human life — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was. — Joseph Hall

A good character is, in all cases, the fruit of personal exertion. It is not inherited from parents; it is not created by external advantages; it is no necessary appendage of birth, wealth, talents, or station; but it is the result of one’s own endeavors? — J. Hawes

A good name is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost forever. — J. Hawes

There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors….But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of — Helvetius

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time. — Katherine Hepburn

A man?s character is his fate. — Heraclitus

Character is destiny. — Heraclitus

When I discipline myself to eat properly, live morally, exercise regularly, grow mentally and spiritually, and not put any drugs or alcohol in my body, I have given myself the freedom to be at my best, perform at my best, and reap all the rewards that go — Zig Ziglar

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters,compared to what lies within us — Oliver Wendell Holmes

The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don’t know what to do. — Jon Holt

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community. — Ed Howe

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time — Elbert Green Hubbard

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born. — Dean Inge

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born. — Washington Irvine

One man with courage makes a majority. — Andrew Jackson

What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character? — Henry James Jr.

Truthfulness is the main element of character — Brian Tracy

In matters of style swim with the current; In matters of principle, stand like a rock — Thomas Jefferson

Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest men, with understanding sufficient for their stations. No duty is at the same time more difficult to f — Thomas Jefferson

A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one. — Lord Jeffrey

Every man has three characters: That which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. — Alphonse Karr

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved — Helen Adams Keller

Courage is doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone. — Fran?ois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended — Fran?ois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do — Zig Ziglar

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. Noone who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

What you see and hear depends a great deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are. — C.S. Lewis

Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is; the tree is the real thing. — Abraham Lincoln

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man?s character, give him power. — Abraham Lincoln

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. — Art Linkletter

Every man must some time or other be trusted to himself. — John Locke

The discipline of desire is the background of character. — John Locke

The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.Thomas Babington, — Lord Macaulay

A man without character is like a ship without a rudder. — Karl G. Maeser

. . . success is a combination of many things, but a good character is the foundation of the kind of success that will bring you real happiness. Choose your friends wisely?they will make or break you. — Marriott Hotels

Tolerance is another word for indifference. — William Somerset Maugham

What comes out of your mouth is determined by what goes into your mind — Zig Ziglar

If you create a character, you create a destiny. — Andr? Maurois

A big man is one who makes us feel bigger when we are with him. — John C. Maxwell

A man’s reaction to his appetites and impulses when they are roused gives the measure of that man’s character. In these reactions are revealed the man’s power to govern or his forced servility to yield. — David Oman McKay

There is [a] spiritual strength derived from the subjecting of the physical appetite to the will of the individual. He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than king If there were no other virtues in fasting but gaining — David Oman McKay

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries. — John Albert Michener

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. — James D. Miles

You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say. — John D. Mitchell

A person’s treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it. — James Moffatt

The most vital test of a man?s character is not how he behaves after success, but how he sustains defeat. — Raymond Moley

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do?not do. — It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do?not do.

Character is what you are in the dark. — Dwight L. Moody

No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character. — John Lord Morley

Deal honestly and objectively with yourself;intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character — Brian Tracy

Character is a subtle thing. Its sources are obscure, its roots delicate and invisible. We know it when we see it and it always commands our admiration, and the absence of it our pity; but it is largely a matter of will — Leo J. Muir

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements. — Jean Iris Murdoch

Tell me what ticks you off, and I will tell you what makes you tick. — Lloyd John Ogilvie

Character is much easier kept than recovered. — Thomas Paine

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us. — Thomas Paine

Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for mankind depended on our bravery, strength, and — Theodore Parker

Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies — Alexander Pope

Most women have no characters at all. — Alexander Pope

Passing the veil does not alter a man; it certainly takes him from the eyes of flesh, but the capacity, the intelligence, the thinking powers, are all alive and quick; and if they hear the Gospel they will be glad, and the promises are made to them, and t — Parley P. Pratt

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.Charles Reade You can get everything money will buy without a lick of character, but — Charles Reade

you can’t get any of the things money won’t buy- happiness ,joy, peace of mind, winning relationships, etc., without character — Zig Ziglar

Sow a Thought, and you reap an Act; Sow an Act, and you reap a Habit; Sow a Habit, and you reap a Character; Sow a Character, and you reap a Destiny — Charles Reade

You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jelly beans. — Ronald Wilson Reagan

Calamity is the test of integrity. — Samuel Richardson

A man never shows his own character so plainly as by his manner of portraying another? — Jean Paul Richter

In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like a distant army. One?friend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which one’s nation a — Jean Paul Richter

Never does a man portray his own character more vividly than in his manner of portraying another. — Jean Paul Richter

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence. — Edward Vernon Rickenbacker

The only way to get rid of responsibilities is to discharge them. — Walter S. Robertson

I believe in the sacredness of a promise, that a man’s word should be as good as his bond; that character – not wealth or power or position – is of supreme worth — John (Jay) Davison Rockefeller, IV

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.Anna Eleanor Roosevelot Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside — Brian Tracy

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike. — Theodore Roosevelt

Character is the foundation stone upon which?one must build to win respect. Just as no?worthy building can be erected on a weak?foundation, so no lasting reputation worthy?of respect can be built on a weak character. — R.C. Samsel

It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own — Herbert Samuel

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost. — Arthur Schopenhauerv

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise — Lucius Ann?us Seneca

In thy face I see The map of honour, truth, and loyalty — William Shakespeare

Men should be what they seem — William Shakespeare

A persons character is but half formed until after wedlock. — C. Simmons

GOOD is good and bad is bad, and nowhere is the difference between good and bad so wide and so fateful as in human character. For character makes destiny in the individual and in the race. — Edward O. Sisson

Be more concerned with your character than with?your reputation. Your character is?what you really are, while your reputation is?merely what others think you are. — John Wooden

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I’ll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things — Lawrence Bell

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened — Winston Churchill

The time is always right to do what is right — Martin Luther King Jr.

Begin with praise and honest appreciation. Call attention to people’s mistakes indirectly. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person. Ask questions instead of giving direct orders…Make the fault easy to correct. Make the other per — Dale Carnegie

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down — Oprah Winfrey

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others — Sir Winston Churchill

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty — John D. Rockefeller

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year — Leonardo da Vinci

Man is not the sum of what he has but the totality of what he does not yet have, of what he might have — Jean-Paul Sartre

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand — Baruch Spinoza

If it ever came to a choice between compromising my moral principles and the performance of my duties, I know I’d go with my moral principles. — Anonymous

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

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give — Winston Churchill

It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to make sure you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy — George Horace Lorimer

Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe — Winston Churchill

Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe — Winston Churchill

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm — Robert Louis Stevenson

I kept six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who — Rudyard Kipling

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the latter — Henry Fielding

What we think or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do — John Ruskin

No man can always be right. So the struggle is to do one’s best, to keep the brain and conscience clear, never be swayed by unworthy motives or inconsequential reasons, but to strive to unearth the basic factors involved, then do one’s duty — Dwight D. Eisenhower

He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king — John Milton

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh–at yourself — Ethel Barrymore

When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first — Josiah Quincy

Everyone who?s ever taken a shower has an idea. It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference — Nolan Buhnell

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world — Lao-Tzu

The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give — Howard Cosell

The will to conquer is the first condition of victory — Ferdinand Foch

Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose! — Woodrow T. Wilson

The most dangerous moment comes with victory, — Napoleon Bonaparte

The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered — St. Augustine

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it — Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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

To the girls that gave me a hard time in high school. I want to say thank you. This is a victory for all the nerds out there — Amy Van Dyken

Victory is a political fiction — Anonymous

If you live long enough, you’ll see every victory turn into a defeat — Simone de Beauvoir

There are important cases in which the difference between half a heart and a whole heart makes just the difference between signal defeat and a splendid victory — A.H.K. Boyd

The victory of endurance born. — William Cullen Bryant

The V sign is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories, and a portent of the fate awaiting the Nazi tyranny — Winston Churchill

Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed — Winston Churchill

. . . You ask, What is our policy? I will say; It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory ? victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival — Winston Churchill

The courses of the Victory were absorbed into the main, then her topsails went, and then her top-gallants. She was now no more than a dead fly?s wing on a sheet of spider?s web; and even this fragment diminished. Anne could hardly bear to see the end, and yet she resolved not to flinch. The admiral?s flag sank behind the watery line, and in a minute the very trunk of the last main-mast stole away. The Victory was gone. — Thomas Hardy

. . . He had by now divested himself of schoolboy attitudes. He was unburdened by the desire to be a martyr or a hero. Any thoughts in that direction, Belgica effectively had quashed. Heroism in the corrupt sense of the age almost by definition, meant wanton self-sacrifice and bungling. For neither had he any taste. He wanted rational attainment; victory, but not at any price. No point upon the globe was worth the cost of a single life — Roland Huntford

Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out — Edwin Markham

It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory — General George Marshall

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory — Blaise Pascal

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat — Theodore Roosevelt

Never letting the competition define you. Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care deeply about — Tom Chappel

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world right in the eye — Helen Keller

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men — Seneca

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will — Mahatma Gandhi

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death — Thomas Paine

We acquire the strength we have overcome — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft — Theodore Roosevelt

Strength is a matter of a made up mind — John Beecher

Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong — Calvin Coolidge

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength — Ralph Sockman

What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can — German Proverb

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do no pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks — Phillips Brooks

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used — Richard E. Byrd

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength — Henry Ward Beecher

The burden is equal to the horse’s strength — The Talmud

It is truly said: It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do — Chow Ching

Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm — Jean Paul Richter

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible – not to have run away — Dag Hammarskjold

Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get — Elbert Hubbard

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions — J. F. Clarke

But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings as eagles; They shall run, and not be weary; and They shall walk, and not faint — [Isaiah 40:31]Bible

But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings as eagles; They shall run, and not be weary; and They shall walk, and not faint — [Isaiah 40:31]Bible

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education — Maya Angelou

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within — Anonymous

You can?t really be strong until you see a funny side to things — Anonymous

Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to the dust — Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used — Richard E. Byrd

When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes — Joseph Campbell

Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do — Lord Chesterfield

It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall be rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account — Confucius

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would have thus been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature — Charles Darwin

For strength to bear is found in duty alone, and he is blest indeed who learns to make the joy of others cure his own heartache — Drake

Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace — John Dryden

If there is any responsibility in the cycle of life it must be that one generation owes to the next that strength by which it can come to face ultimate concerns in its own way — Erik Erikson

Patience and time do more than strength or passion — Jean De La Fontaine

The very strength that protects the heart from injury is the strength that prevents the heart from enlarging to its intended greatness within. The song of the voice is sweet, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of heaven — Kahlil Gibran

By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect — Goethe

He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without — Goethe

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do — Elbert Hubbard

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity — Ben Jonson

There is no limit to what you can imagine. And with commitment, with effort, what you can imagine you can become. Put your mind to work for you. Believe that you can do it. The world will tell you that you can’t. Yet, in your belief you’ll find the strength, you’ll find the ability, to do it anyway — Ralph Marston

“There is [a] spiritual strength derived from the subjecting of the physical appetite to the will of the individual. “He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than king.” If there were no other virtues in fasting but gaining strength of character, that alone would be sufficient justification for its universal acceptance.” — David McKay

There is nothing so strong as gentleness, and nothing so gentle as strength — Leo Muir

I do not attach much importance to America’s bombs. I attach importance to her great vitality and integrity. The strength of America is deeper and more significant than her financial power — Jawaharlal Nehru

In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix’d: ‘t is fix’d as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast; but strength of mind is exercise, not rest — Alexander Pope

God does not take away trials or carry us over them, but strengthens us through them — Pusey

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along — Eleanor Roosevelt

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” — Robert W. Service

There is a growing strength in women, but it is in the forehead, not in the forearm — Beverly Sills

NATIVE vigor of impulses and desires conserved by education and experience, the establishment of inner harmony and cooperation among the powers and capacities of the soul, the formation of a life purpose, and the direction of the individual life in accordance with the eternal principles of right that underlie human progress, ? these are the elements of both strength and righteousness in human character.’ — Edward Sisson

Above all challenge yourself. You may well surprise yourself at what strengths you have, what you can accomplish — Cecile Springer

Our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal to all men who are struggling to breathe free — Adlai Stevenson

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of — Jonathan Swift

My strength is as the strength of ten because my heart is pure — Lord Tennyson

None of us can hope to get anywhere without character, moral courage and the spiritual strength to accept responsibility — Thomas J. Watson

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength — Oprah Winfrey

There is a comfort in the strength of love: ?Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart — William Wordsworth

No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves — Dwight Eisenhower

When I’ve heard all I need to make a decision, I don’t take a vote. I make a decision — Ronald Reagan

Great crisis produce great men and great deeds of courage — John F. Kennedy

It is not because things are different that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. — Anonymous

A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must….be undaunted when the going gets tough — Ronald Reagan

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it — Rabindranath Tagore

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else — Erma Bombeck

Only in growth, reform and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how — Friedrich Nietzsche

Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem a turned it into an opportunity — Joseph Sugarman

Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday. — Brian Tracy

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity — Albert Einstein

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds — Charles Franklin Kettering

Opportunity?often it comes in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat — Napoleon Hill

Opportunities? They are all around us?there is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it — Orison Swett Marden

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises — Demosthenes

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems — Anonymous

Four things come not back: The spoken word, The sped arrow, The past life, The neglected opportunity — Arabian Proverb

Four things come not back: The spoken word, The sped arrow, The past life, The neglected opportunity — Arabian Proverb

If God shuts one door, He opens another — Irish

Teachers open the doors, but you must enter by yourself. — Chinese Proverb

Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door — Anonymous

For every problem there is an opportunity — Anonymous

Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost; the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been — Anonymous

It’s the man who waits for his ship to come in who’s always missing the boat — Anonymous

Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly — Anonymous

Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers — Anonymous

Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers — Anonymous

Once an opportunity has passed, it cannot be caught — Anonymous

Opportunities always look bigger going than coming — Anonymous

Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in — Anonymous

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell — Anonymous

The less you know about an opportunity, the more attractive it is — Anonymous

The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work — Anonymous

You are younger today than you ever will be again. Make use of it — Anonymous

Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone — Arthur Brisbane

Nothing is more expensive than a?missed opportunity — H.Jackson Brown JR.

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are — John Burroughs

The single common denominator of men and women who achieve great things is a sense of destiny. — Brian Tracy

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

Where one door shuts another opens — Miguel de Cervantes

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door — Kyle Chandler

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves — William Ellery Channing

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty — Sir Winston Leonard spencer/Churchill

Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases — Jeremy Collier

An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way?that leads to collective organizational success — Stephen R. Covey

The right man is the one who seizes the moment — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless implied, will be able to form some conception — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In a free society, every opportunity comes with three obligations. First, you must seize it. You must mold it into a work that brings value to others. Second, you must live it. Opportunity is nurtured only by action. Third, you must defend the freedom to pursue opportunities. You must embrace these three obligations as if the future of the United States depended on it. In fact, it does. — Robert C. Goizueta

Opportunity knocks at the strangest times, It’s not the time that matters But how you answer the door — Steve/Gray

Opportunity knocked. My doorman threw him out. — Adrienne Gisoff

Ideals are the incentive payment of practical men. The opportunity to strive for them is the currency that has enriched America through the centuries. — Robert E. Hannegan

With increased opportunity comes increased stress. The stress comes from multiple conflicting demands and very little in the way of role models — Madeline Hemmings

Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. — Napoleon Hill

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now — Napoleon Hill

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities — Eric Hoffer

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed — William James

Some people stay far away from the door if there?s a chance of it opening up. They hear a voice in the hall outside and hope that it just passes by — Billy Joel

To improve the golden moment of opportunity and catch the good that is within our reach is the great art of life — Samuel Johnson

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best. — Michael Johnson

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes — Henry J. Kaiser

The average person works at fifty percent or less of their potential.Your job is to unleash that extra fifty percent. — Brian Tracy

When written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity — John Fitzgerald Kennedy

There will always be a Frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand — Charles Franklin Kettering

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage — Victor Kiam

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions ? it only guarantees equality of opportunity — Irving Kristol

As the opportunity grows for unlimited growth and progress, the chances of failure increase. There is no such thing as a program that will provide security and growth and progress with no risk . . . even within the church. As freedom for unrestricted development is enhanced, the possibilities for failure are also increased. The risk factor is great — Dean L. Larsen

Decision and determination are the engineer and fireman of our train to opportunity and success — Burt Lawlor

Ability is of little account without opportunity. — Henry Wadsworth LongFellow

Age is opportunity no less than youth itself — Henry Wadsworth LongFellow

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity — General Douglas MacArthur

A philosopher being asked what was the first thing necessary to win the love of a woman, answered, ‘Opportunity’ — Marianne Craig Moore

Ability is nothing without opportunity — Napoleon Bohaparte

Ability is of little account without opportunity — Napoleonl

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent — Dr.Laurence J. Peters

If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade — Thomas J. Tom Peters

It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity — Frederick Philipse

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

How often the sight of means to do ill deeds, makes deeds ill done — William Shakespeare

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat, And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures — William Shakespeare

While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity — Publilius Syrus

We have a problem for those who advocate competitive equality of opportunity: the prizes won in the competitions of the first generation will tend to defeat the requirements of equality of opportunity for the next — Lloyd Thomas

Life is like a combination lock;your goal is to find the right numbers, in the right order, so you can have anything you want. — Brian Tracy

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire. — The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity — Arthur H. Vandenberg

Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards — Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards

If we do not take advantage of our opportunities, it is our own fault — Thomas J. Watson

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity — Oprah Winfrey

Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold — William Wordsworth

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty — Sir Winston Churchill

You and I can never do a kindness too soon, for we never know how soon it will be too late — Ralph Waldo Emerson

You contain within yourself a unique combination of talents and abilities which,properly identified and applied,will enable you to achieve virtually any goal you can set for yourself . — Brian Tracy

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck — Anthony Robbins

Our policy is simple: We are not going to betray our friends, reward the enemies of freedom, or permit fear and retreat to become American policies, especially in this hemisphere. None of the wars in my lifetime came about because we were too strong — Ronald Reagan

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better. — Jim Rohn

?You will never be a leader unless you first learn to follow and be led — Tiorio

Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership.Always keep your word. — Jim Rohn

The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says LET’S GO! — H. Gordon Selfridge

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

I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a transformer in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader — Stephen R. Covey

A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group — Russell H. Ewing

One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency — Arnold Glasow

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives — Theodore Roosevelt

A leader is best When people barely know he exists, When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, They will say: We did it ourselves — Lao-Tzu

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be — Rosalynn Carter

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail — Muriel Strode

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly — Jim Rohn

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it — Theodore Roosevelt

“A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” James Crook Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people. — Brian Tracy

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve — Toma Landry

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish — Sam Walton

A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent — Douglas McCarther

You manage things; you lead people. — Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper

If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me! — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men — Lao-Tzu

It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don’t put psychotics in high places and we’ve got the problem solved — Thomas Wolfe

An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag. — Viking Proverb

It’s not always easy to do the right thing. But, doing the right thing makes you strong, it builds character, it forces you to make decisions based upon your beliefs and not what other people think. In life, and in business, you have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone. But, what makes you a leader is having the courage of your convictions. — Queen Latifah

Entrepreneurs are the forgotten heroes of America — Ronald Reagan

Eagles don’t flock – you have to find them one at a time — H. Ross Perot

My responsibility, our responsibility as lucky Americans, is to try to give back to this country as much as it has given us, as we continue our American journey together — Colin Powell

Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow — Chinese Proverb

The marksman hitteth the target partly by pulling, partly by letting go. The boatsman reached the landing partly by pulling, partly by letting go — Egyptian Proverb

The man whose authority is recent is always stern — Aeschylus

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily;even if you had no title or position — Brian Tracy

The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it — Elaine Agather

Asked what his secret was for lasting so long and being so successful as the president of Yale University, Dr. James R. Angell explained: Grow antennae, not horns — Dr. James Rowland Angell

A most important key to successful leadership is your ability to direct and challenge the very best that is in those whom you lead — Anonymous

Success for leadership is . . . knowing the great art of directing others without their noticing it — Anonymous

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander — Aristotle

Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before — Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

It’s great to work with somebody who wants to do things differently — Keith Bellow

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality — Warren G. Bennis

. . . power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership — Warren G. Bennis

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born — Warren G. Bennis

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. — Kenneth Blanchard

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it — Andrew Carnegie

There are three essentials to leadership: humility, clarity and courage — Chan Master Fuchan Yuan

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod — Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground — Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away — Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

You do not lead by hitting people over the head ? that’s assault, not leadership — General David Dwight Eisenhower

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The common characteristics of people make a community possible, but it is their uncommon qualities that make it better — John H. Fischer

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned — Harold S. Green

The human mind is as driven to understand as the body is driven to survive. — Hugh Gilmore

A salesman, like the storage battery in your car, is constantly discharging energy. Unless he is recharged at frequent intervals he soon runs dry. This is one of the greatest responsibilities of sales leadership — R. H. Grant

What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary — Richard Harkness

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It’s got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet. — Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist — Eric Hoffer

Respect a man, he will do the more. — James Howell

Leaders think and talk about the solutions.Followers think and talk about the problems. — Brian Tracy

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together. — Jesse Jackson

The only real training for leadership is leadership. — Anthony Jay

No two men can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other — Dr. Samuel Johnson

You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man’s head to the inside — Charles Franklin Kettering

Lift, Lead and Love — Spencer W. Kimball

Rule a kingdom as though you were cooking a small fish ? don’t overdo it — Lao Tse

There are no dumb questions?only dumb answers — Marshall Loeb

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd — Max Lucado

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less. — Andre Malraux

Leadership is influence. — John C. Maxwell

Leadership is an action, not a position. — Donald H. McGannon

A leader is a dealer in hope — NapoleanI

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence — Michael O’Brien

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run ever faster if encouraged — Publius Ovidius Naso Ovid

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity — General George Smith Patton, Jr.

One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you — Dennis A. Peer

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself — William Penn

Respect is the key determinant of high performance leadership.How much people respect you determines how well they perform. — Brian Tracy

The same ambition can destroy or save,And makes a patriot as it makes a knave. — Alexander Pope

Leadership is the ability of a single individual through his or her actions to motivate others to higher levels of achievement — F. G. ?Buck? Rodgers

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average. — Jim Rohn

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives — Theodore Roosevelt

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it — Theodore Roosevelt

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy — General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

To lead in the 21st century-to take soldiers, sailors, and airmen into battle, you will be required to have both character and competence — General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

He who reads is never alone. — Helder Simone

Learn to obey before you command — Solon

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand–P?rigord

Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable — Claude I. Taylor

Consensus is the negation of leadership — Margaret Thatcher

It is much safer to obey, than to govern. — Thomas ? Kempis

A President either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a single moment — Harry S. Truman

Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when?courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better — Harry S. Truman

Education is the mother of leadership. — Wendell Lewis Wilkie

The three C’sof leadership are Consideration,Caring,and Courtesy.Be polite to everyone. — Brian Tracy

Every man who takes office . . . either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing — Thomas Woodrow Wilson

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, ‘I release the need for this in my life’ — Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit — Aristotle

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit — Desiderius Erasmus

First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you. Rob Gilbert — Rob Gilbert

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. — Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones. — Stephen R. Covey

Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing — Vince Lombardi

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones — Benjamin Franklin

Habits? the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction? You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way – by finding that it is a means of satisfaction — Juliene Berk

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit. — Vince Lombardi

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time — Charles Dickens

It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the old ones away — Kenich Ohmae

Good habits result from resisting temptation. — Indian Proverb

As a twig is bent the tree inclines. — Virgil

Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny — Tryon Edwards

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. — Henry Adams

A man?s fortune has its form given to it by his habits. — Anonymous

Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of — Anonymous

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way — Anonymous

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage — Bruce Barton

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man?s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half — Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,? As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas — John Dryden

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steadily gains in strength. At first it may be but as the spider’s web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel — Tyron Edwards

The long span of the bridge of your life is supported by countless cables called habits, attitudes, and desires. What you do in life depends upon what you are and what you want. What you get from life depends upon how much you want it?how much you are willing to work and plan and cooperate and use your resources. The long span of the bridge of your life is supported by countless cables that you are spinning now, and that is why today is such an important day. Make the cables strong! — L.G. Elliott

We are what we think; as we desire so do we become! By our thoughts, desires, and habits, we either ascend to the full divine dignity of our nature, or we descend to suffer and learn — J. Todd Ferrier

Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis — Jane Fonda

We’re worn into grooves by Time?by our habits. In the end, these grooves are going to show whether we’ve been second rate or champions, each in his way in dispatching the affairs of every day. By choosing our habits, we determine the grooves into which Time will wear us; and these are grooves that enrich our lives and make for ease of mind, peace, happiness ? achievement — Frank B. Gilberth

Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered when others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck — Grenville Kleiser

The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones. — William Somerset Maugham

Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes. — Hannah More

Habits change into character. — Publius Ovidius Naso Ovid

A large part of virtue consists in good habits. — Barbara Paley

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men?s private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large — Plutarch

How use doth breed a habit in a man! — William Shakespeare

In one sense the whole process of development consists of the formation of habits; for knowledge itself, and the powers of thought, as well as the higher elements in the will, all depend upon the establishment of fixed ways of reacting to given stimuli. Consequently, the general laws of habituation underlie the whole of education. But the term habit is more commonly restricted to those established reactions that act with little or no participation of consciousness, or, in other words, mechanically or automatically. Such habits as these begin to form very early, and constitute a kind of supporting framework for the higher elements of character — Edward O. Sisson

The secret of the whole matter is that a habit is not the mere tendency to repeat a certain act, nor is it established by the mere repetition of the act. Habit is a fixed tendency to react or respond in a certain way to a given stimulus; and the formation of habit always involves the two elements, the stimulus and the response or reaction. The indolent lad goes to school not in response to any stimulus in the school itself, but to the pressure of his father’s will; when that stimulus is absent, the reaction as a matter of course does not occur — Edward O. Sisson

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit — Publilius Syrus

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time. — Mark Twain

Nothing so needs reforming as other people?s habits — Mark Twain

No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive — John Cassavetes

Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation. — Henri Bergson

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as necessary to resolve it. — Rene Descartes

“The secret of success is constancy of purpose.” — Benjamin Disraeli

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” — Aristotle

“In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves? self-discipline with all of them came first.” — Harry S. Truman

The future belongs to the competent.It belongs to those who are very,very good at what they do.It does not belong to the well meaning. — Brian Tracy

“If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the outside.” — Critias of Athen

“He conquers twice who conquers himself in victory.” — Jyrus

“It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.” — Buddha

“What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not do.” — Aristotle

“The first and the best victory is to conquer self.” — Plato

Unless you change how you are,you will always have what you’ve got. — Jim Rohn

“First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you.” — Rob Gilbert

“The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.” — Tyron Edwards

“No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline must not be an end in itself, but must be directed to the development of resolute Christian character.” — John S. Bonnell

“If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.” — Napoleon Hill

People create their own success by learning what they need to learn and then by practicing it until they become proficient at it. — Brian Tracy

“No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.” — Harry Emerson Fosdick

“The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.” — Bum Phillips

“A colt is worth little if it does not break its halter.” — Proverb

“Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that they underestimate the part that discipline plays. But the discipline you have in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.” — Bertrand Russell

“He who lives without discipline dies without honor.” — Icelandic Proverb

“Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees or the stars; you have a right to be here.” — From Disiderata

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set. This is true of earthly as of heavenly things. Even the man whose object is to acquire wealth must be prepared to make great personal sacrifices before he can accomplish his object; and how much more so he who would realize a strong and well-poised life.” — James Allen

“It’s not the work that’s hard, it’s the discipline.” — Anonymous

“You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life.” — Dr. James G. Bilkey

We can have more than we’ve got because we can become more than we are. — Jim Rohn

“That discipline which corrects the eagerness of worldly passions, which fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, which enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, and furnishes to it matter of enjoyment from within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity than all the provisions which we can make of the goods of fortune.” — Robert Blair

“No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline must not be an end in itself, but must be directed to the development of resolute Christian character.” — John Sutherland Bodell

“Discipline is remembering what you want.” — David Campbell

“Hands untrained in the use of tools destroy what they want to build. It takes skill to use tools to achieve the result desired, whether it’s tearing down an old house or building a new one. Skepticism is a tool serving both purposes. But it must be used by a trained mind, a mind capable of disciplined thinking.” — J.B. Charles

Every study of high achieving men and women proves that greatness in life is only possible when you become outstanding at your chosen field. — Brian Tracy

“It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.” — Clint Eastwood

“The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.” — Tyron Edwards

“If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence.” — William Feather

Pity the man who inherits a million and isn’t a millionaire.Here’s what would be pitiful,if your income grew and you didn’t. — Jim Rohn

“If we don’t discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us.” — William Feather

“No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.” — Harry Emerson Fosdick D.D

“It is one of the strange ironies of this strange life that those who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest discipline, who give up certain pleasurable things in order to achieve a goal, are the happiest men. When you see 20 or 30 men line up for a distance race in some meet, don’t pity them, don’t feel sorry for them. Better envy them instead.” — Brutus Hamilton

“Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.” — Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace

“To discipline ourselves through fasting brings us in tune with God, and fast day provides an occasion to set aside the temporal so that we might enjoy the higher qualities of the spiritual. As we fast on that day we learn and better understand the needs of those who are less fortunate.” — Howard W. Hunter

“The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence,mastery of your work. — Brian Tracy

“I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul?s good to do each day two things they disliked. . . . It is a precept I have followed scrupulously: for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.” — William Somerset Maugham

“Man can learn self-discipline without becoming ascetic; he can be wise without waiting to be old; he can be influential without waiting for status. Man can sharpen his ability to distinguish between matters of principle and matters of preference, but only if we have a wise interplay between time and truth, between minutes and morality.” — Neal A. Maxwell

“Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent?as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.” — Maria Montessori

“Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility and commitment.” — H. Ross Perot

The most important question to ask on the job is not “what am I getting?” The most important question to ask is “What am I becoming?” — Jim Rohn

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to all. — George Washington

Nothing is more harmful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army superiority over another. — George Washington

One of the best uses of your time is to increase your competence in your key result areas. — Brian Tracy

One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline ? and that?s the important half, for without discipline you wouldn’t? know what to do with luck. — Carl Zuckmeyer

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work 12 hours a day. — Anonymous

The time is always right to do what is right. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results. — Brian Tracy

I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work. — Lee Iacocca

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your promotion. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance. — Brian Tracy

One discipline always leads to another discipline. — Jim Rohn

Life is a unique combination of want to and how to and we need to give equal attention to both. — Jim Rohn

When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first. — Josiah Quincy

The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don’t like to do. They don’t like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose. — E.M. Gray

“The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.” — Dale Carnegie

“Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.” — Chinese proverb

Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully. — Zig Ziglar

“A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It’s easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change.” — Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

“The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.” — Epictetus

“We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.” — David Bailey

“Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.” — Orison Swett Marden

Remember, you can earn more money, but when time is spent is gone forever. — Zig Ziglar

“The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.” — Thomas Edison

“Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.” — Norman Vincent Peale

“It’s your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude.” — Zig Ziglar

“Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.” — Sir James M. Barrie

“We will either find a way, or make one.” — Hannibal

“Death comes to all. But great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.” — George Fabricius

If you’re insincere, it’s manipulative. — Zig Ziglar

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The only way around is through.” — Robert Frost

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

“I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.” — Jonas Salk

You’ve got to be before you can do, and do before you can have. — Zig Ziglar

“If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.” — A. P. Gouthey

“My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.” — Helen Hayes

“The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.” — Napoleon Hill

“A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a questions he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

“High achievement always takes place in a framework of high expectation.” — Jack Kinder

“Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.” — Golo Mann

“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.” — Foster C. Mcclellan

“I am always doing things I can’t do, that’s how I get to do them.” — Pablo Picasso

“The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.” — Plutarch

All of us perform better and more willingly when we know why we’re doing what we have been told or asked to do. — Zig Ziglar

“Nothing is as difficulty as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerances and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-idea individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.” — Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

“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

“The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.” — Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

“Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the high road to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction. “ — Brian Tracy

“Never mistake activity for achievement. “ — John Wooden

Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it’s free-but it can’t go anywhere. — Zig Ziglar

“I love America. We’ve got the only system that works – it keeps everyone hustling.” — J.R. Simplot

“Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done and fools what they wish to do.” — French

“The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.” — Alfred Adler

“Encouraged people achieve the best; dominated people achieve second best; neglected people achieve the least.” — Anonymous

“God put me on Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind I will never die! “ — Anonymous

“If you don?t climb the mountain, you can?t view the plain.” — Anonymous

“Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.” — Anonymous

Money will buy you a bed, but not a good night’s sleep, a house but not a home, a companion but not a friend. — Zig Ziglar

“The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.” — Anonymous

“The man who wakes up and finds himself famous hasn’t been asleep.” — Anonymous

“To go beyond is as bad as to fall short.” Anonymous Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days. — Zig Ziglar

“To reach a great height a person needs to have great depth.” — Anonymous

“Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances.” — Bruce Barton

“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.” — William Blake

“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.” — William Jennings Bryan

“Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.” — Frank Clark

“This became a credo of mine . . . attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.” — Bette Davis

“We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God. We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain mastery over yourself. . . . It is not a matter of sitting back and accepting.” — Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

“Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.” — Henry Drummond

“Hell, there are no rules here ? we’re trying to accomplish something.” — Thomas Alva Edison

“We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.” — General Dwight David Eisenhower

“What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love . . . Give it the best there is in you . . . Seize your opportunities And be a member of the team. In no country but America, I believe, is it possible to fulfill all four of these requirements.” — Benjamin F. Fairless

“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.” — Kahlil Gibran

You can finish school, and even make it easy -but you never finish your education,and it’s seldom easy. — Zig Ziglar

“If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty.” — Heber J. Grant

“Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.” — Dag Hammarskj

“My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.” — Helen Hayes

“The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.” — Napolean Hill

Most x-rated films are advertised as “adult entertainment, “for “mature adults,” when in reality they are juvenile entertainment for immature and insecure people. — Zig Ziglar

“We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.” — Eric Hoffer

“Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.” — H. L. Hunt

“Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon ? deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.” — William James

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” — Robert Francis Kennedy

“It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever ? the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it. “ — Vince Lombardi

Many marriages would be better if the husband and wife clearly understood that they’re on the same side. — Zig Ziglar

You don’t drown by falling in water; you only drown if you stay there. — Zig Ziglar

“Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.” Niccol? — Machiavelli

The more you express gratitude for what you have the more you will have to express gratitude for. — Zig Ziglar

“Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we might have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.” — Gian-Carlo Menotti

“Someone has defined genius as intensity of purpose: the ability to do, the patience to wait. . . . Put these together and you have genius, and you have achievement.” — Leo J. Muir

“Only if you reach the boundary will the boundary recede before you. And if you don’t, if you confine your efforts, the boundary will shrink to accommodate itself to your efforts. And you can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit.” — Hugh Nibley

“Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one’s levels of aspiration . . and expectation.” — Jack Niklaus

Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it’s free-but it can’t go anywhere. — General George Smith Patton, Jr.

“Five minutes, just before going to sleep, given to a bit of directed imagination regarding achievement possibilities of the morrow, will steadily and increasingly bear fruit, particularly if all ideas of difficulty, worry or fear are resolutely ruled out and replaced by those of accomplishment and smiling courage.” — Frederick Pierce

“Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.” — Ayn Rand

“She looked at the crowd and she felt, simultaneously, astonishment that they should stare at her, when this event was so personally her own that no communication about it was possible, and a sense of fitness that they should be here, that they should want to see it, because the sight of an achievement was the greatest gift a human being could offer to others.” — Ayn Rand

“There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words . . . love and achievement. . . . In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy. . . . The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.” — Dr. Theodor Reik

“A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forest. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.” — William Sharp

Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love. — Zig Ziglar

When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny. — Zig Ziglar

The more you express gratitude for what you have the more you will have to express gratitude for. — Zig Ziglar

“Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.” — Alfred North Whitehead

“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” — John Wooden

“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.” — Woodrow Wilson

“Man is not the sum of what he has but the totality of what he does not yet have, of what he might have.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

“Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” — Conrad Hilton

“Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish.” — Brian Tracy

“The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still favorable. Favorable conditions never come.” — C.S. Lewis

“The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.” — Anonymous

It’s not the situation, but whether we react (negative) or respond (positive) to the situation that’s important. — Zig Ziglar