"Whether
you think you can or think you can't, you're right." ~
Henry Ford
"If
a person is fortunate enough to one day look around and truly
like the place they are, they will in retrospect feel only gratitude
for every step it took to get there." ~ Reid Reichardt
"The
greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it."
~ Moliere
"We
cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are."
~ David T. Kearns
"Nothing
great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." ~ Ralph
Waldo Emerson
"Our
life is what our thoughts make it." ~ Marcus Aurelius
"Because
it hasn't been done before, doesn't mean it can't be done. Those
who are afraid to make a mistake will never make a significant
achievement." ~ Ted Hood
"Our
country did not become great by being realistic, but by being
BOLD." ~ Lamar Alexander
"I
have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost
almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take
the game winning shot... and I missed. I have failed over and
over and over again in my life. And that's precisely why I succeed."
~ Michael Jordan
"If
you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is; but
if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could
be, he will become what he ought to be and could be." ~
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Each
player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once
they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the
cards in order to win the game." ~ Voltaire
"If
you want to know your past - look into your present conditions.
If you want to know your future - look into your present actions."
~ Buddhist Saying
"If
everybody likes you you're doing something wrong. And if everybody
hates you you're doing something wrong." ~ Collin Powell
"Remember,
always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty.
Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you
don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself."
~ Richard M. Nixon
"Keep
away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people
do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can
become great." ~ Mark Twain
"And what is fear of need but need itself? Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable." ~ Kahil Gibran
"Man
often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying
to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that
I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary,
if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire
the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning."
~ Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi
"We
cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are."
~ Max DePree
"Though
no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start
from now and make a brand new ending." ~ Carl Bard
"Only
those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how
far one can go." ~ T. S. Eliot
"The
trouble with many plans is that they are based on the way things
are now. To be successful, your personal plan must focus on
what you want, not what you have." ~ Nido Qubein
"If
your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more,
do more and become more, you are an excellent leader."
~ Dolly Parton
"It's
hard to beat the person who never gives up." ~ Babe
Ruth
"Far
better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs,
even though checked by failure...than to rank with those poor
spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they
live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
~ Theodore Roosevelt
"If
you love what you do, you will never work another day in your
life." ~ Confucius
"The
most complicated achievements of thought are possible without
the assistance of consciousness." ~ Sigmund Freud
"Nothing
on earth can stop the man with the right mental attitude from
achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the
wrong mental attitude." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"Victory
belongs to the most persevering." ~ Napoleon
"You
are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be
tomorrow where your thoughts take you." ~ James Allen
"Great
works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance."
~ Samuel Johnson
"Growth,
in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion
just a little bit, one way or another." ~ Norman Mailer
"Whatever
you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there
is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are
always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics
are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an
end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.
Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to
win them." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Forget
past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what
you're going to do now and do it." ~ William Durant
"The
greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing
you will make one." ~ Elbert Hubbard
"Real
happiness is not dependent on external things. The pond is fed
from within. The kind of happiness that stays with you is the
happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions. You
must cultivate your mind if you wish to achieve enduring happiness."
~ William Lyon Phelps
"You
gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in
which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do
the thing you think you can not do." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
"He
who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for." ~
Moroccan Proverb
"I'm
not telling you it is going to be easy - I'm telling you it's
going to be worth it" ~ Art Williams
"A
small trouble is like a pebble. Hold it too close to your eye
and it fills the whole world and puts everything out of focus.
Hold it at a proper distance and it can be examined and properly
classified. Throw it at your feet and it can be seen in its
true setting, just one more tiny bump on the pathway of life."
~ Celia Luce
"There
is little difference in people, but that little difference makes
a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big
difference is whether it is positive or negative." ~ W.
Clement Stone
"To
excel is to reach your own highest dream. But you must also
help others, where and when you can, to reach theirs. Personal
gain is empty if you do not feel you have positively touched
another's life." ~ Barbara Walters
"Enjoy
the little things, for one day you may look back and realize
they were the big things." ~ Robert Brault
"Our
deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear
is that we are powerful beyond measure. We ask ourselves, Who
am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually,
who are you not to be? We were born to make manifest the glory
of God that is within us. And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same."
~ Marianne Williamson
"When
one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully
upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened
for us." ~ Alexander Graham Bell |
