Quotes

Quotes

"Some of us learn from other people's mistakes and the rest of us have
to be other people."
-- Zig Ziglar, Author

"Most people who fail in their dreams fail not from lack of ability but
from lack of commitment."
-- Zig Ziglar, Motivational Speaker

"Skill to do comes of doing."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poet

"The only difference between successful people and unsuccessful people
is extraordinary determination."
-- Mary Kay Ash, Entrepreneur

"The more positive you are when you think and work toward your goals,
the faster you achieve them."
-- Brian Tracy, Speaker, Author, Consultant

"When you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, the day
will come when you can do the things you want to do when you want to do
them."
-- Zig Ziglar, Motivational Speaker

"You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your
dominant aspiration."
-- James Allen

"The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great
catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly
destructive little things."
-- Ernest Dimnet

"Evidence is conclusive that your self-talk has a direct bearing on your
performance."
-- Zig Ziglar, Motivational Speaker

"If a person doesn't govern his temper, his temper will govern him."
-- John Maxwell

"Remember, happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have; it
depends solely on what you think."
-- Dale Carnegie, Author

"The nose of the bulldog is slanted backwards so he can continue to
breathe without letting go."
-- Winston Churchill, British prime minister

"In the middle of every difficulty comes opportunity."
-- Albert Einstein

"Any person who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved, has
already defined his own limitations."
-- Cavett Robert

"Every crucial experience can be regarded as a setback - or the start of
a new kind of development."
-- Mary Roberts Kinehart

"Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm."
-- Publilius Syrus

"Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The
winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul."
-- Charles Bexton

"The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example."
-- Thomas Morell, Librettist

"Eighty-five percent of the reason you get a job, keep that job, and
move ahead in that job has to do with your people skills and people
knowledge."
-- Cavett Robert

"When you believe and think "I can," you activate your motivation,
commitment, confidence, concentration and excitement - all of which
relate directly to achievement."
-- Dr. Jerry Lynch

"We must become the change we wish to see in the world."
-- Mahatma Gandhi, Statesman

"The world is but a canvas to the imagination."
-- Henry David Thoreau

"People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of
employing their passions in the service of their lives."
-- Sir Richard Steele

"It's not where you start - it's where you finish that counts."
-- Zig Ziglar, Author

"The core problem is not that we are too passionate about bad things,
but that we are not passionate enough about good things."
-- Larry Crabb

"Three billion people on the face of the earth go to bed hungry every
night, but four billion people go to bed every night hungry for a simple
word of encouragement and recognition."
-- Cavett Robert

"Ninety percent of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They
simply quit."
-- Paul J. Meyer

"A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a
hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror."
-- Ken Keyes

"Your greatness is measured by your horizons."
-- Michelangelo

"Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it."
-- Brian Tracy, Speaker, Author, Consultant

"Do a little more than you're paid to. Give a little more than you have
to. Try a little harder than you want to. Aim a little higher than you
think possible, and give a lot of thanks to God for health, family, and
friends."
-- Art Linkletter

"If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I
regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field,
I would pick the trait of persistence."
-- Richard DeVos, Amway Co-founder

"Determine never to be idle. It is wonderful how much may be done if we
are always doing."
-- Thomas Jefferson, Third U.S. President

"Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of
yourself as a success."
-- Joyce Brothers, Psychologist

"You can't talk yourself out of a problem you behave yourself into."
-- Stephen Covey, Author and Speaker

"Action conquers fear."
-- Pete Zarlenga

"Discipline is the habit of taking consistent action until one can
perform with unconscious competence. Discipline weighs ounces but regret
weighs tons."
-- Jhoon Rhee

"Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator."
-- Robert Orben

"The biggest tragedy in America is not the great waste of natural
resources - though this is tragic; the biggest tragedy is the waste of
human resources because the average person goes to his grave with his
music still in him."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay not
defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end."
-- Denis Waitley

"God gives everyone certain attributes, characteristics, talents, and
then He says, "If you use what you have I'll increase it, but if you
don't use it, you'll lose it." Use it or lose it; it's a law."
-- Charlie "Tremendous" Jones

"Enjoyment is not a goal. It is a feeling that accompanies important,
on-going activity."
-- Paul Goodman

"Common sense is genius dressed up in work clothes."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Success comes from taking the hand you were dealt and using it to the
very best of your ability."
-- Ty Boyd