"Your attitude, almost always determines your altitude in life."
- UNKNOWN
"Do or do not; there is no try."
- YODA (Star Wars)
"If you really want something, you'll find a way;
if you don't, you'll find an excuse."
- UNKNOWN
Achievers say, "It may be difficult, but it's possible."
Average people say, "It may be possible, but it's too difficult."
- UNKNOWN
"Difficulty is an excuse history never accepts."
- EDWARD R. MURROW (1908-1965)
Broadcast journalist
"The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it."
- HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK
"When an archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's-eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim -- improve yourself."
- GILBERT ARLAND
Writer
"Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course toward his objective in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation."
- NAPOLEAN HILL (1883-1970)
Writer
"The Past is history, the Future is a mystery, and this moment is a gift -- that's why it's called "the Present"
- Unknown
"Failure is the path of least persistence"
- GREG PROVENZANO
"The race goes not always to the swift...
but to those who keep on running."
- UNKNOWN
"I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you."
- HARRISON FORD
Actor
"Courage does not always roar. Sometimes it is a quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.' "
- UNKNOWN
"There is no free lunch. Don't feel entitled to anything you don't sweat and struggle for."
- MARIAN WROGHT EDELMAN
The Measure of Our Success
"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. When you think you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this . . . . you haven't."
- UNKNOWN
"Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means."
- ALBERT EINSTEIN
Physicist
"There are many more people trying to meet the right person than to become the right person."
- GLORIA STEINEM
Writer
"You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership."
- DWIGHT EISENHOWER
U.S. President
"What I do best is share my enthusiasm."
- BILL GATES
Cofounder & CEO, Microsoft
"Life is not easy for any of us. But it is a continual challenge, and it is up to us to be cheerful and to be strong, so that those who depend on us may draw strength from our example."
- ROSE KENNEDY (1890-1995)
Kennedy family matriarch
"If you see a need, don't ask 'Why doesn't somebody do something?' Ask instead 'Why don't I do something?' This world needs more SHEPHERDS and fewer SHEEP."
- MARIAN WROGHT EDELMAN
The Measure of Our Success
"When you handle yourself, use your head; when you handle others, use your heart."
- DONNA REED
Television actress
"Men don't follow titles, they follow courage."
- Sir WILLIAM WALLACE (Braveheart)
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Zig Ziglar tells of visiting the Washington monument. As he and his party approached the monument, he heard a guide announcing loudly that there would be a two-hour wait to ride the elevator to the top of the monument. However, with a smile on his face the guide then said, "There is no one waiting to go to the top if you are willing to take the stairs."
- KING DUNCAN
King's Treasury of Dynamic Humor
"The person determined to achieve maximum success learns that progress is made one step at a time. A house is built a brick at a time. Football games are won a play at a time. A department store grows bigger one customer at a time. Every big accomplishment is a series of little accomplishments."
- DAVID JOSEPH SCHWARTZ
Writer
"If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. It's tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing, let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting his life-jacket on."
- LOU HOLTZ
College Football coach
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The First 2 Rules of Self-Improvement:
#1 - It will be difficult.
#2 - It will be worth it.
"When you want something you have never had, you have got to do something you have never done."
- MIKE MURDOCK
"A ship in the harbor is safe . . . but that's not what ships were made for."
- UNKNOWN
"In baseball, you can't steal second base while keeping your foot on first base."
- UNKNOWN
"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts."
- JOHN WOODEN
Former UCLA basketball coach
"Dress for the job you want to have, not for the job you currently have."
- UNKNOWN
"Either you modify your dreams, or you magnify your efforts. You can't have both.
You can't achieve BIG dreams with SMALL efforts."
- GREG PROVENZANO
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