“Just know, when you truly want success, you’ll never give up on it. No matter how bad the situation may get.” - Unknown

“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.” – Les Brown

“I don’t regret the things I’ve done, I regret the things I didn’t do when I had the chance.” –Unknown

“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” - Joshua J. Marine

“Its hard to wait around for something you know might never happen; but its harder to give up when you know its everything you want.” – Unknown

“One of the most important keys to Success is having the discipline to do what you know you should do, even when you dont feel like doing it.” - Unknown

“Good things come to those who wait… greater things come to those who get off their ass and do anything to make it happen.” - Unknown

“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.” - Denis Waitley

“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” – Bill Cosby

“Go where you are celebrated – not tolerated. If they can’t see the real value of you, it’s time for a new start.” – Unknown

Dont be afraid to stand for what you believe in, even if that means standing alone.. - Unknown

“The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra

“Forget all the reasons it won’t work and believe the one reason that it will.” - Unknown

“I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. Its because of them I’m doing it myself.” – Albert Einstein

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.” – Steve Jobs

“Life is short, live it. Love is rare, grab it. Anger is bad, dump it. Fear is awful, face it. Memories are sweet, cherish it.” – Unknown

“When you say “It’s hard”, it actually means “I’m not strong enough to fight for it”. Stop saying its hard. Think positive!” - Unknown

“Life is like photography. You need the negatives to develop.” - Unknown

“Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” – Jack Canfield

“The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered there is opportunity for growth.” - Unknown

“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray

“The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible.” – Joel Brown

“Self confidence is the most attractive quality a person can have. how can anyone see how awesome you are if you can’t see it yourself?” – Unknown

“We learn something from everyone who passes through our lives.. Some lessons are painful, some are painless.. but, all are priceless.” - Unknown

“Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. it means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.” - Unknown

“Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan.” – Larry Winget

“Three things you cannot recover in life: the WORD after it’s said, the MOMENT after it’s missed and the TIME after it’s gone. Be Careful!” – Unknown

“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

“When the past calls, let it go to voicemail, believe me, it has nothing new to say.” - Unknown

“Rule #1 of life. Do what makes YOU happy.” - Unknown

“Walk away from anything or anyone who takes away from your joy. Life is too short to put up with fools.” – Unknown

“Love what you have. Need what you want. Accept what you receive. Give what you can. Always remember, what goes around, comes around…” – Unknwon

“Just remember there is someone out there that is more than happy with less than what you have.” – Unknown

“The biggest failure you can have in life is making the mistake of never trying at all.” – Unknown

“Life has two rules: #1 Never quit #2 Always remember rule # 1.” - Unknown

“No one is going to hand me success. I must go out & get it myself. That’s why I’m here. To dominate. To conquer. Both the world, and myself.” - Unknown

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. –Napoleon Hill

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. –Steve Jobs

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. –Robert Frost

The common question that gets asked in business is, ‘why?’ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‘why not?’ -Jeffrey Bezos

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. –Wayne Gretzky

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. –Michael Jordan

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. –Babe Ruth

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. –W. Clement Stone

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. –John Lennon

We become what we think about. –Earl Nightingale

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. –Mark Twain

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. –John Maxwell

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. –Tony Robbins

The mind is everything. What you think you become. –Buddha

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. –Chinese Proverb

An unexamined life is not worth living. –Socrates

Eighty percent of success is showing up. –Woody Allen

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. –Napoleon Hill

Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. –Vince Lombardi

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. –Stephen Covey

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. –Pablo Picasso

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher Columbus

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. –Maya Angelou

Either you run the day, or the day runs you. –Jim Rohn

Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. –Henry Ford

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. –Mark Twain

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The best revenge is massive success. –Frank Sinatra

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily. –Zig Ziglar

Inspiration exists, but it must find you working. –Pablo Picasso

If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. –Vincent Van Gogh

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. –Henry Ford

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. –Henry David Thoreau

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me. –Erma Bombeck

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, “What’s in it for me?” – Brian Tracy

Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart. – Ancient Indian Proverb

Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. –George Addair

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato

Once you choose hope, anything’s possible. –Christopher Reeve

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. –Arthur Ashe

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They

told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. –John Lennon

Fall seven times and stand up eight. –Japanese Proverb

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. –Helen Keller

Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. –Confucious

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. –Anne Frank

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. –Lao Tzu

The difference between a successful person and others is not lack of strength not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will. –Vince Lombardi

Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions. –Dalai Lama

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. –Arthur C. Clarke

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. –Aristotle

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. –Latin Proverb

You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground. –Unknown

Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well. –Vincent Van Gogh

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. –Les Brown

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. –Joshua J. Marine

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. –Walt Disney

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. –Leonardo da Vinci

Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. –Jamie Paolinetti

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. –Jim Morrison

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. –Bob Dylan

I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. –Benjamin Franklin

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. –Bill Cosby

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. –Chinese Proverb

There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. –Roger Staubach

It is never too late to be what you might have been. –George Eliot

You become what you believe. –Oprah Winfrey

I would rather die of passion than of boredom. –Vincent van Gogh

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. –Unknown

It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings. –Ann Landers

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. –Abigail Van Buren

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. –Farrah Gray

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. –Frank Zappa

Education costs money. But then so does ignorance. –Sir Claus Moser

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more. –H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. –Confucius

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. –H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. –Dalai Lama

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. –Maya Angelou

Dream big and dare to fail. –Norman Vaughan

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. –Martin Luther King Jr.

Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. –Teddy Roosevelt

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. –Gloria Steinem

It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. –Mae Jemison

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. –Beverly Sills

Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. –Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. –Grandma Moses

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford

It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. –Abraham Lincoln

Change your thoughts and you change your world. –Norman Vincent Peale

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. –Benjamin Franklin

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!” –Audrey Hepburn

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. –Steve Jobs

If you can dream it, you can achieve it. –Zig Ziglar

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

- Aristotle

The best way out is always through.

- Robert Frost

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

- William B. Sprague

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

- Albert Einstein

Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.

- Henry Ford

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.

- Oprah Winfrey

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve

been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over

again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”

- Michael Jordan

You must be the change you want to see in the world.

- Mahatma Gandhi

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving

your goals.

- Goethe

You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what

they want.

- Zig Ziglar

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating

desire which transcends everything.

- Napoleon Hill

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

- Truman Capote

Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.

- Japanese Proverb

In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do

is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.

- Theodore Roosevelt

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.

- Isaac B. Singer

Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

- Unknown

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are

least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

- Charles F. Kettering, Engineer and Inventor

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than

by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the

trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

- Mark Twain

Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.

- Unknown

Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.

- Unknown

Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.

- Dan Stanford

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.

- Albert Einstein

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a

certain set of attitudes.

- Hugh Downs

If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well

laugh about it now.

- Marie Osmond

Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

- Roy Goodman

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago

today.

- E. Joseph Cossman

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within

us.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We judge of man’s wisdom by his hope.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

- Mark Twain

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

- Mark Twain

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.

- Mark Twain

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but

the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

- Mark Twain

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

- Richard B. Sheridan

Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first

step.”

- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

”Act or accept.”

- Anonymous

Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One

without the other is worthless.

- Tim Blixseth

The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape.

- Bono

Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.

- Dr Phil

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances

are it will burn very briefly.

- Stephen R. Covey

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things.

When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

- Norman Vincent Peale

Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.

- Anonymous

Being defeated is only a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent.

- Marilyn vos Savant, Author and Advice Columnist

I can’t understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I’m frightened by old ones.

- John Cage

Fall down seven times, get up eight.

- Japanese Proverb

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

- Unknown

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

- Unknown

Anyone can do something when they WANT to do it. Really successful people do things

when they don’t want to do it.

- Dr. Phil

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the

responsibility for changing them.

- Dr. Denis Waitley

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

- Sir Winston Churchill

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make

mistakes but don’t quit.

- Conrad Hilton

Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.

- Unknown

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

- John Wooden

There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do,

and two, do it.

- Mario Cuomo

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

- Richard Bach

Vision doesn’t usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of

life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to

ourselves and others.

- Dr. Michael Norwood

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

- Dr. Joyce Brothers

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

- Samuel Beckett

Flops are a part of life’s menu and I’ve never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.

- Rosalind Russell

Cause Change & Lead

Accept Change & Survive

Resist Change & Die

Ray Norda, Chairman, Novell

Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you’re still trying, keep

it up! You’re right on track.

- Matthew Keith Groves

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

- Bill Bernbach

An obstacle is often a stepping stone.

- Prescott

Life is “trying things to see if they work”

Ray Bradbury

If you worry about yesterday’s failures, then today’s successes will be few.

Anonymous

Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.

Dennis P. Kimbro

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private

chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In matters of style, swim with the current;

in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Thomas Jefferson

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The

hundredth time I am right.

Albert Einstein

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

Machiavelli.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

”You are what you think about all day long.” — Dr. Robert Schuller

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say” — Ralph Waldo Emerson”

“Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the

obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.”

Booker T. Washington

”Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.”

- Elbert Hubbard

If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.

- J.M. Power

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve

hours a day

- Robert Frost

“I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and

it will be better tomorrow.”

- Maya Angelou

“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”

- William James

“When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to

what?’”

- Sydney Harris

“Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.”

- Richard L. Evans

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.”

- Robert Frost

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look

fear in the face.”

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

- Seneca

Do first things first, and second things not at all.

- Peter Drucker.

The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.

- Foster’s Law

Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.

- Joe Clark

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

- Winston Churchill

Positive anything is better than negative thinking.

- Elbert Hubbard

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who wish to sing, always find a song.

- Swedish Proverb

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

- Winston Churchill

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but

we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

- Voltaire

Enduring habits I hate…. Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery

and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing

leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.

- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 1882

There is no education like adversity.

- Disraeli

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

- Author Unknown

Reader contributions:

The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Have the passion, take the action & magic will happen.

- Bar Rafaeli

If you’ve got it. use it. If you don’t got it, then get it!

- Reader submitted

Son, if you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to redo it?

- Reader’s grandfather said this, and I LOVE IT

Faith held solely is the begining of action.

- Reader submitted

Positivity is all about overlooking the negetive fact.

- Reader submitted

Life is all about up and doing.

- Reader submitted

You will never get lessons on swimming from a drowning man!

- Reader submitted

Life is not about ALL the wrong moves you made, Life is about the one right move that

made ALL the difference.

- James Lockhart

Be humble enough to admit you’re not perfect, but determined enough to strive to be

perfect.

- Babsie Burke (reader)

If you can’t sleep do not count the sheep, worship the Shepherd.

- Babsie Burke (reader)

Life is a journey, its not a race. Walk through it.

- Reader submitted

Everything happens for a reason, you only need to keep on editing your attitude and

gratitude so as to sail through.

- Reader submitted

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

- Reader submitted (I really like this one, thanks Sandiso)

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.