"Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning."
-- Denis Waitley

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
-- Marcel Proust

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
-- Anonymous (from Chinese proverb)

"You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside."
-- Wayne Dyer

"Much effort, much prosperity."
-- Euripides

"One person can make a difference. You don't have to be a big shot. You don't have to have a lot of influence. You just have to have faith in your power to change things."
-- Norman Vincent Peale, Clergyman

"People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things."
-- Sir Edmund Hilary, First to reach the summit of Mount Everest

"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor."
-- Vince Lombardi, Legendary Football Coach

"In the end it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are."
-- Max Dupree, Author

"I will study and prepare, and someday my opportunity will come."
-- Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States

"I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often."
-- Brian Tracy, Author

"The 6 P Rule: Proper prior planning prevents poor performance."
-- Unknown

"Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking: what's in it for me?"
-- Brian Tracy, Author

"Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing."
-- Alexander Woollcott, Critic and Commentator for The New Yorker magazine

"Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning."
-- Winston Churchill

"Fear melts when you take action towards a goal you really want."
-- Robert G Allen, author

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
-- John Wooden, Basketball Hall of Famer

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

"There just isn't enough time for everything on our 'to do' list - and there never will be. Successful people don't try to do everything. They learn to focus on the most important tasks and make sure they get done. "
-- Brian Tracy, author

"Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy."
-- Denis Waitley

"Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success."
-- Henry Ford, auto maker

"The will to prepare to win is infinitely more important than the will to win."
-- Bobby Knight, Coach

"You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile."
-- Brian Tracy

"A leader must be virtuous and preserve their integrity by standing strong in the face of adversity and challenge."
-- Bill Fleming, Jr.

"Success depends upon previous preparation and without such preparation there is sure to be failure."
-- Confucius

"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value too us."
-- Western Union Internal Memo 1876

"A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done."
-- Ralph Lauren, fashion designer

"The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation the hand is the cutting edge of the mind."
-- Jacob Brownowski

"Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon."
-- Denis Waitle

"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

"What matters is where you want to go. Focus in the right direction!"
-- Donald Trump, Billionaire Real Estate Developer

"Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations."
-- Federico Fellini

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
-- Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. president

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant."
-- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Concentration can be cultivated. One can learn to exercise will power, discipline one's body and train one's mind."
-- Anil Ambani, Billionaire Businessman

"It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste time."
-- Henry Ford, Ford Motor Company Founder

"People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine."
-- Brian Tracy, Author

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

"A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life."
-- Charles Darwin, British Naturalist

"Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life."
-- Brian Tracy, Author

"You win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash."
-- Douglas MacArthur, General

"If you want more, you have to require more from yourself."
-- Dr Phil, Motivational Author and Talk Show Host

"I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But, I can't accept not trying."
-- Michael Jordan, basketball star

"The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear."
-- Brian Tracy, Author

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

"Think you can, think you can't; either way, you'll be right."
-- Henry Ford, Industrialist

"Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness-its opposite-never led to good intention's goal."
-- Miguel de Cervantes, writer

"Every man dies. Not every man lives. The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the 'buts' you use today."
-- Les Brown, Bandleader

"It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him."
-- ­ John Steinbeck, author

"I always view problems as opportunities in work clothes."
-- Henry Kaiser, businessman

"Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better."
-- Pat Riley, Basketball Coach

"The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it's on . . . a football field, in an army or in an office."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th U.S. President

"The longer you wait to decide what you want to do, the more time you're wasting. It's up to you to want something so badly that your passion shows through in your actions. Your actions, not your words, will do the shouting for you."
-- Derek Jeter, baseball player

"To reach [our goal], we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must sail and not drift, not lie at anchor."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., physician

"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 Truman, 33rd US President

"Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there."
-- Will Rogers, Humorist

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
-- Marcel Proust, Author

"It is impossible to win the great prizes in life without running risks."
-- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. president

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
-- Walt Disney, Theme Park Mogul

"It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes."
-- Louis Pasteur, microbiologist

"When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish ­ it is then that you must not hesitate."
-- Dag Hammarskjold, statesman

"I used to eat a lot of natural foods...until I learned that most people die of natural causes"
-- Neal Boortz

"Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it."
-- Stan Smith, Tennis Champion

"To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings."
-- Rosabeth Moss Kanter, educator

"Postponing action is only postponing achievement."
-- Rick Pitino, Coach

"The one thing that matters is the effort."
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French pilot, author

"The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen"
-- Lee Iacocca, automobile executive

"Courage is doing what you'¹re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're¹re scared."
-- Eddie Rickenbacker, aviator

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
-- Seneca, Roman philosopher

"A winner makes commitment. A loser makes promises."
-- Anonymous

"The deed is everything, the glory nothing."
-- ­ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer

"The one thing that matters is the effort."
-- ­ Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French pilot, author

"Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."
-- Steven Wright ­ Scientist/Comic

"The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen."
-- ­ Lee Iacocca, automobile executive

"Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve"
-- Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson, Lt. General, commanding the 2nd Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, always the 1st Brigade

"Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less"
-- Robert E. Lee, Commanding General of the Army of Northern Virginia

"Learning is not compulsory, but neither is survival."
-- ­ W. Edwards Deming, management consultant

"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 Truman, 33rd U.S. President

"The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it."
-- ­ John Ruskin, art critic

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."
-- ­ John Quincy Adams, sixth US president

"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."
-- ­ Eleanor Roosevelt, first lady

"A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction."
-- ­ Benjamin Spock, pediatrician, author

"I didn't get to where I am by thinking about it or dreaming about it. I got there by doing it."
-- ­ Estee Lauder, entrepreneur

"Little minds . . . are subdued by misfortune . . . Great minds rise above them."
-- ­ Washington Irving, writer

"The most effective way to manage change is to create it."
-- ­ Peter Drucker, management advisor

"The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it¹s on . . . a football field, in an army or in an office."
-- ­ Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th U. S. president

"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."
-- ­ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet

"Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you."
-- ­ Arnold Palmer, golfer

"I attribute my success to this ­ I never gave or took any excuse."
-- ­ Florence Nightingale, nurse

"Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway."
-- John Wayne, actor

"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."
-- ­Winston Churchill, British statesman

"Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working."
-- ­ Pablo Picasso, artist

"Courage and perseverance have a magic talisman, before which difficulties and obstacles vanish into air."
-- ­John Adams, second US president

"Goals are just wishes until they're written down!"
-- Anonymous

"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win."
-- ­ Roger Bannister, runner

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."
-- ­ Elinor Smith, aviator

"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."
-- ­ Oprah Winfrey, broadcaster, entrepreneur

"Big goals get big results. No goals gets no results or somebody else's results."
-- Mark Victor Hansen

"Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior."
-- ­ Logan Pearsall Smith, essayist

"One of the top 10 keys to Success is good communication. Without it you do not know where you stand or what others want."
-- Bill Fleming, Jr.

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."
-- Raymond Chandler, writer

"You can only stumble if you're moving."
-- Roberto Goizueta

"Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught."
-- J.C. Watts, United States Congressman

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in not giving up."
-- Tommy Lasorda

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men of talent. Genius will not . . . the world is full of educated derelicts."
-- Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States

"To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions."
-- Benjamin Franklin

"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome."
-- Samuel Johnson

"Leadership rests not only on outstanding ability. It also rests on commitment, loyalty and pride. It rests on followers who are ready to accept guidance. Leadership is the ability to direct people and - more important - to have those people accept the direction."
-- Vince Lombardi

"No great performance came from holding back."
-- Don Greene

"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."
-- Samuel Adams

"Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company."
-- George Washington, 1st President of the United States

"A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must . . . be undaunted when the going gets tough."
-- Ronald Reagan - 40th US President

"There is no substitute for hard work."
-- Thomas Edison

"Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success."
-- William J. H. Boetcker

"There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness."
-- Franz Kafka, Writer

"Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts."
-- Edward R. Murrow, news broadcaster

"There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness."
-- Franz Kafka, Writer

"Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence in seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control."
-- Tom Landry - Football Coach

"Enthusiasm spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment."
-- Norman Vincent Peale, Clergyman, Author

"We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts."
-- Madeleine L'Engle, writer

"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value."
-- Albert Einstein, physicist

"Enthusiasm spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment."
-- Norman Vincent Peale, Clergyman, Author

"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way."
-- Babe Ruth, baseball player

"People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents."
-- Andrew Carnegie, Industrialist

"A genius is a talented person who does his homework."
-- Thomas Edison, inventor

"Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation."
-- William Arthur Wood, author

"Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you."
-- Arnold Palmer, golfer

"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."
-- Vince Lombardi, coach

"Every leader needs to clearly explain the top three things the organization is working on. If you can't, you are not leading well."
-- Jeffrey Immelt, General Electric chief executive

"It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong."
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet

"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
-- Thomas Jefferson, 3rd US president

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

"I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got."
-- Walter Cronkite, journalist

"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."
-- Bobby Unser, race car driver

"No person has ever been honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave."
-- Calvin Coolidge, 30th US president

"I know the price of success; dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen."
-- Frank Lloyd Wright, architect

"Progress always involves risk. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first."
-- Frederick B. Wilcox

"A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting."
-- Carlos Casteneda, Writer