Quotes!

Here are some quotes!

"We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped
by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them
like a shadow that never leaves them."
-- Buddha

"Investment decisions or personal decisions don't wait for the picture
to be clarified."
-- Andrew Grove, executive

"It's no accident that things are more likely to go your way when you
stop worrying about whether you're going to win or lose, and focus all
your full attention on what's happening right at this moment."
-- Phil Jackson, basketball coach

"We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else,
a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to
that one objective."
-- Dwight Eisenhower, 34th U.S. president

"Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will and be
judged by only one thing: the result."
-- Vince Lombardi, football coach

"If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the
shoulder of giants."
-- Isaac Newton, scientist

"I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability
to take advantage of it. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab
his chances gets on."
-- Samuel Goldwyn, movie executive

"A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and
usually the best way to get there."
-- H. Stanley Judd, Writer

"Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to
use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal,
and by maintaining focus."
-- Oprah Winfrey, talk show host

"He who hesitates is poor."
-- Mel Brooks, director

"Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing
to take a chance, put his head on the block and try something new."
-- Thomas J. Watson, executive

"I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the
ways we learn."
-- Herbie Hancock, musician

"My father taught me that reputation, not money, was the most important
thing in the world."
-- William Rosenberg, Dunkin Donuts founder

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone
who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep
your mind young."
-- Henry Ford, Industrialist

"Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude."
-- Ralph Marston, Author

"So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem
improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become
inevitable."
-- Christopher Reeve, Actor

"We must do that which we think we cannot."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt, first lady

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."
-- Arthur Ashe, Tennis Player

"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an
uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit."
-- Helen Keller, lecturer

"You can't steal second base and keep you foot on first."
-- Frederick Wilcox, writer

"I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I
think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible
for myself, and I had to make good."
-- Oprah Winfrey, Talk Show Host

"I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of
success, but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to
keep faith with life."
-- Madeleine Albright, secretary of state

"Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of
courage and true progress."
-- Nicholas M. Butler, American Philosopher

"Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the only thing
you'll have left is your character"
-- Vince Gill, Musician

"We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it
takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and
effort."
-- Jesse Owens, Olympic Athlete

"Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see
farther."
-- J.P. Morgan, industrialist

"When the solution is simple, God is answering."
-- Albert Einstein, Theoretical Physicist

"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others."
-- Robert Louis Stevenson, writer

"Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what
he does from day to day to lead himself."
-- Thomas J. Watson Sr, executive

"The only certain means of success is to render more and better service
than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be."
-- Og Mandino, author

"Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will
have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire."
-- Napolean Hill, Motivational Writer

"People fail forward to success."
-- Mary Kay Ash, cosmetics mogul

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

"What keeps so many employees back is simply unwillingness to pay the
price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and
comfort."
-- Orison Swett Marden, motivational expert

"The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or
dishonor to the latest generation."
-- Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. President

"Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn
again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility."
-- Albert Schweitzer, Humanitarian

"Great hopes make everything great possible."
-- Benjamin Franklin, Statesman/Mason

"Difficulties in life are intended to make us better not bitter."
-- Dan Reeves, Football Coach

"To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is -- and rise
above it."
-- Michael Korda, Publisher

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes in to us at
midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in
our hands, and hopes we've learned something from yesterday."
-- John Wayne, Actor

"Fortune favors the audacious."
-- Desiderius Erasmus, Theologian

"People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or
settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole
country is their oyster."
-- Alistair Cooke, Journalist

"We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the
pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret
weighs tons."
-- Jim Rohn, Motivational Coach

"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to
performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it."
-- Robert Heinlein, American Novelist

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have
perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe
that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost,
must be attained"
-- Marie Curie, Chemist