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Men of lofty genius, when they are doing the least work are the most active.|Leonar If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself|Norman Vincent Peale Your most valuable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else|Brian Tracy Amateurs wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work|Chuck Close Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant|Robert Louis Stevenson Good is the enemy of the great. (Opposite: Better is the enemy of ‘Good enough’) In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than fear of failure|Bill Cosby You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills|Jim Rohn If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won’t, you most assuredly won’t. It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.|W. Somerset Maugham Forget about mistakes that you can’t change, but don’t forget the lesson that you have learnt. You can’t change the future, but you can change your habits; And sure your habits will change your future.|Bernard Shaw God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. You are what you are and where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change what you are and where you are by changing what goes into your mind.|Ziger Strong deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement.|Napoleon Hill Never let your memory be greater than your dreams.|Doug Ivester If you have to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.|Norman Vincent Peale Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.|Will Rogers Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.|William Penn The is no use of running fast when you are on the wrong road. Silent lips will avoid many problems, and a smiling lips will solve many problems. Life’s problems wouldn’t have been called “hurdles” if there wasn’t a way to overcome them. The impossible can be broken down into possibilities. There is no challenge more challenging than the challenge to improve yourself|Michael F. Staley Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.|Denis Waitley If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, “you are wrong.” This method works every time. What you want to be is more important than what you are. The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going|Napoleon Hill The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today’s work superbly well. The greatest of all faults is to imagine that you have none People who accept responsibility are the people who are making the most of their lives Success doesn’t depend upon being at the right place at the depend upon being ready The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time People always call it lucky when you have acted more sensibly than they have. Life is like a mirror - it never reflects more than we can put into it. Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret|Ambrose Bierce Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration|Evan Esar If you don’t have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past|A.R.Bernard The greatest risk that you can take in life is to risk nothing. A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure.|Bernard Iddin Some people not only expect opportunity to knock, they expect it to beat down the door. Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.|Marcia Wieder God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow in them. A goal is a dream with a deadline|Napolean Hill Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot b striking|William B. Sprague Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.|Benjamin Disraeli If you don’t quit, and don’t cheat, and don’t run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.|Shelley Long Man improves himself as he follows his path; if he stands still, waiting to improve before he makes a decision, he’ll never move.|Paulo Caelho If you wait until all the lights are “green” before you leave home. you’ll never get started on your trip to the top|Zig Zaglar The more helpless you are, the better you are fitted to pray, and the more answers to prayer you will experience.|O.Hallesby Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.|Fitzhugh Dodson The more goals you set - the more goals you get.|Mark Victor Hansen Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.|Ray Kroc Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.|H.L. Hunt Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1000 percent return on energy!|Brian Tracy Every adversity, every failure, every heartache, carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit|Napoleon Hill Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.|Les Brown Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice. The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.|Frank Loyd Wright Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.|Dale Carnegie Either you set your goals and, in doing so, having your life governed by choice or you do nothing and gave your life governed by chance.|Robin Sharma Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.|Norman Vincent Peale The majority of the people meet with failure because they lack persistence to create new plans to take the place of failed plans.|Mark V Hansen People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.|Pete Zafra If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple: Know what you are doing, love what you are doing, and believe in what you are doing.|Wi Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.|Benjamin Franklin The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter. Ideas are funny little things. They don’t work unless you do. A man is a product of his thought. What he thinks he becomes.|Mahatma Gandhi Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.|Kahlil Gibran If you don’t quit, and don’t cheat, and don’t run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.|Shelley Long The more goals you set, the more goals you get.|Mark Victor Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.|Conrad Hilton If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; If you don’t, you have achieved half your failure.|Yogi Berra The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time. The biggest challenge you have is to challenge your own SELF - DOUBT and your LAZINESS.|Robert Kiyosaki Things do not change; we change|Henry David Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.|Robert F. Kennedy When you really want something (and take the first steps in that direction), the entire universe will conspire to fulfill your desire.|P. Coelho Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.|Henry Drummond Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.|Frank A. Clark Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest. Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.|Dwight Eisenhower There is only one person who is capable to set limits to your growth.. it is you. You always pass failure on the way to success.|Mickey Rooney Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.|Jawaharlal Nehru To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.|Muhammad Ali If you can’t, you must. If you must, you can.|Anthony Robbins The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal; the tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.|Benjamin Mays The reason most goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.|Robert J. McKain The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.|Stephen R. Covey Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results. If you have built castles in air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.|Thoreau Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.|Niccolo Machiavelli Forget about all the reasons why something may not work. You only need to find one good reason why it will. Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work. God gives every bird a worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.|Swedish Proverb When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.|N.Hill Positive thinking evokes more energy, more initiative and more happiness. You have to learn lessons also from others mistakes, because you will not get the time to do all the mistakes yourself.|John Kennedy It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all TRY something|Franklin D. Roosevelt Luck is a matter of preparation meeting the opportunity. Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.|Dale Carnegie Before everything else, getting ready is the secret to success.|Henry Ford I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.|Chinese Proverb Failure is just a “test result” away from success. The bad news is time flies. The good news is you are the pilot. Small Opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.|Demosthenes Many sleep to dream while many are awake to realize their dreams To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.|James Carse Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently. Spectacular achievement is always preceded by spectacular PREPARATION.|Robert H. Schuller It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.|Seneca Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.|M. Scott Peck Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is the cause of all success.|Brian Tracy You cannot tailor make the situations in life, but you can tailor the attitudes to fit those situations before they arise.|Zig Ziglar It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.|Charles Darwin People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.|Dale Carnegie If you don’t set goals, you can’t regret not reaching them.|Yogi Berra Change is the nature of life but challenge is the future of life. So challenge the changes. Never change the challenges.|Amitabh Bachan Even a correct decision is wrong when it was taken too late|Karl Marx Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.|Plato Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.|Lowell Thomas Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests.|Brian Tracy Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It’s our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.|Mary Lou Retton Nothing can add power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.|Nido Qubein The audience sees the joker as a joker. The joker sees himself as a performer. No matter what others think, it’s your life, go ahead with confidence. There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.|Helen Keller Chase down your passion like it’s the last bus of the night.|Terri Guillemets Man improves himself as he follows his path; if he stands still, waiting to improve before he makes a decision, he will never move.|Paulo Coelo There’s no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn’t tell you about it?|Kim hubbard Satisfaction is the highest level of happiness and it is easily attained when we have no expections. Sometimes the path you’re on is not as important as the direction you’re heading.|Kevin Smith In order ti succeed, we must first believe that we can.|Michael Korda You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.|Benjamin Franklin Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.|Napolean Hill Those who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing and succeed. Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more then they do.|Elbert Hubbard Worrying does not solve tomorrow’s trouble, it takes away today’s peace. You do not need great strength to lift the spirits of others. To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.|Eva Young The time for action is NOW. It’s never too late to do something.|Carl Sandburg Life is beautiful only for those who know to celebrate the pain. Anxiety is caused by lack of control, organization, preparation, and action.|David Allen Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity.|Arabian Proverb “Always” and “never” are two words you should always remember never to use.|Wendell Johnson Make a success of living by seeing the goal and aiming for it unswerving.|Cecil B. De Mille A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.|Chinese proverb Time is the quality if nature that keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn’t seem to be working. The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.|Edward Gibbon Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.|Nadia Boulanger If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything.|Sbunryu Suzuki Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.|Henry Bergson The ancestor of every action is a thought.|Ralpg Waldo This constant, unproductive preoccupation with all the things we have to do is the single largest consumer of time and energy.|Kerry Rule your mind or it will rule you. The beginning is half of every action.|Greek proverb Vision is not enough it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must step up the stairs.|Vaclav Havel It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.|Sally Kempton Both faith and fear may sail into your harbor, but allow only faith to drop anchor. Every should made as simple as possible, not simpler.|Albert Einstein You’ve got to think about the big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.|Alvin Toffler When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.|Will Rogers Don’t just do something, stand there.|Rochelle Myer Celebrate any progress, don’t wait to get perfect.|Ann McGee Cooper There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.|C.A.R. Hoare I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.|Jean Rostand Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all out possessions.|John Randolph Three grand essentials to happiness in life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.|Jose Addison We should not let out fears hold us back from pursuing out hopes.|John F. Kennedy The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.|Napolean Hill A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.|John D. Rockefeller One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.|Arthur Ashe Go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will see farther.|Orison Swett Marden The secret to success is to start from the scratch and keep scratching.|Dennis Green If you want to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.|Glenn Clark Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. –Anthony J. D’Angelo Pray that success will not come any faster then you are able to endure it.|Elbert Hubbard He that is good for making excess is seldom good for anything else.|Benjamin Franklin Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.|Ronald E. Osborn If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.|Maya Angelou The most practical, beautiful, workable philosophy in the world won’t work if you won’t. I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. You mind must know it hasto get down to work,|Pearl Buck If you are going through hell, keep going, THIS TOO SHALL PASS|Winston Churchill A man who chases two rabbits catches none Never give up. There is always a solution for a problem. Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.|Napolean Hill You’ve got to get to the stage where going for it is important than winning or losing.|Arthur Ashe You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.|Benjamin Franklin Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thought into action is the most difficult thing in the world.|Johann Wolfgang Goethe The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.|Mahatma Gandhi Don’t focus on how to spend less money. Focus on how to make more money.|Lyndon Forman Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspirationand inspiration.|Evan Esar It is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent if what he takes out of it.|Albert Einstein When a man is willing and eager, the GODS join in.|Aeschylus Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.– Napoleon Hill God gives every bird a worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.|Swedish Proverb Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius.|Robert Brault There is only one way to Happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the Power of our will.|Epictetus I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.|Mark Twain Don’t find fault. Find a remedy.|Henry Ford Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.|Ann Landers Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success. The greatest revenge is to accomplish what others say you cannot do. It takes as much stress to be a success as it does to be a failure.|Emilio James Trujillo Success demands singleness of purpose.|Vincent Lombardi Unless you’re willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won’t happen.|Phillip Adams It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice. Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen: even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind. There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.|Theodore Roosevelt The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle. Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune.|Jim Rohn Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now.|Jonatan Martensson Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.|Mahatma Gandhi Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.|Oscar Wilde There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.|C.A.R. Hoare