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“A man’s doubts and fears are his worst enemies.” William Wrigley “By providing a direct line of communication for government biologists and scientists to access the specialists at Defenders, we hope to work more closely with federal government employees to address the challenges they face in ensuring the use of the best available science in wildlife management decisions.” “Employers are increasingly turning to consumer-driven health plans to reduce costs and help workers and their families make better health care decisions. Not only do companies protect their bottom lines, they help make employees better health consumers.” “Fairless Works is a good facility with excellent people, … We have invested in upgrading our facilities here and have worked extremely hard with the union and our employees to make Fairless Works competitive. However, the realities of today’s marketplace, including the impact of unfairly traded imports, have compelled us to make this difficult decision.” Usher “If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.” “I’m coming from the standpoint that this is the most important decision a Town Council can make. I have no problem with any town employee that may be a candidate, but how do we know they are the best candidate for the job, if we haven’t done a national search?” “Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.” “In many cases, employees don’t actively manage their 401(k) portfolios because they don’t know how to make good investment decisions, … They feel safer doing nothing.” “Investment advice is a very important component of good retirement policy, … But it is vitally important that employees have a wide range of investment options, as well as full disclosure about the choices they have so they can make good investment decisions. This bill fails to provide workers enough choice or enough information.” “It’s a very, very difficult decision, but it’s one that, given the circumstances, is the best option for our employees, our customers and our vendors. That doesn’t make the decision any easier.” “Keep learning.Develop in new directions.Adapt.Don’t get locked into a set of skills or an approach that could become outdated.Be willing to bend, to adjust, because a repidly changing world requires new competencies.” “No one who was running the 401(k) seemed to have our interests at heart; at every turn, they seemed to be making decisions that were in the best interests of Enron, not employees. That’s why we got nothing but lies from the management of Enron.” “Successful leaders have the courage to take action while others hesitate.” “The board of directors of Clarke-Mobile has made a decision that it is in the best interest of all the employees of Clarke-Mobile to require participation in the insurance. If your wife does not like that policy, Alabama is an employment-at-will state, and she is free to resign her position at any time.” “The Guild leadership is resorting to wild accusations in a manner that accomplishes nothing of value at this time. We need to deal with the difficult decisions that impact our valued employees, and as always we believe it is best to discuss such matters directly with the Guild.” “We believe this decision is in the best interest of our shareholders, customers and employees since it will allow us to create a stronger company and one better able to take advantage of the opportunities in all our business segments” “We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.” “We’re confident the NHL will make a decision that’s in the best interest of our fans, employees and the two teams.” “You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.” “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the things you think you cannot do.” “You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.” end of NEW quotes! “A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.” “A determined person doesn’t find it hard to succeed; they find it hard to stop trying.” “A goal is a dream with a deadline.” “A goal properly set is halfway reached.” “A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.” “A lot of people don’t want to make their own decisions. They’re too scared. It’s much easier to be told what to do.” “A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.” “A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.” “A man who is not a Liberal at sixteen has no heart; a man who is not a Conservative at sixty has no head.” “A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.” “A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.” “A positive attitude can really make dreams come true — it did for me.” “A positive attitude may not solve every problem but it makes solving any problem a more pleasant experience.” “A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided.” “A solid rock is not disturbed by the wind; even so, a wise person is not agitated by praise or blame.” “A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.” “A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.” “A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.” “A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.” “A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.” “A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” “A year from now you will wish you had started today.” “Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.” “Abundance is, in large part, an attitude” “Accordingly, a genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.” “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” “Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one” “All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.” Napoleon Hill “All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.” “All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.” Adlai E. Stevenson “All sorrows can be borne, if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.” “All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do.” “All that’s required to write comedy is a sense of humor. And you can write it without leaving the comfort of your own personality.” “All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.” “All words are pegs to hang ideas on.” “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.” “Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.” “An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.” “An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.” “An optimist is the human personification of spring.” “An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?” “As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.” “As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.” “As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.” “As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.” “Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” “Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.” “Attitudes are more important than facts.” “Basically, our goal is to organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful.” “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” “Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.” “Better three hours too soon, than one minute too late.” “Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.” “But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.” Albert Camus “By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.” “Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.” “Choosing a goal and sticking to it changes everything.” “Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent!” “Concentrate all your thought upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.” “Constant dripping hollows out a stone.” “Decide carefully, exactly what you want in life, then work like mad to make sure you get it!” Hector Crawford “Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.” “Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.” “Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered.” “Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.” “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” “Difficult times require difficult decisions. But supporting this bill shouldn’t be a difficult decision.” “Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.” “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” William B. Sprague “Don’t ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them.” “Don’t speak unless you can improve on the silence.” “Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.” “Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.” “Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” “Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.” “Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.” “Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.” “Every generation needs a new revolution.” “Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.” “Every decision you make is an important one, whether there are twenty thousand people working for you or just one.” “Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent return on energy!” “Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.” Mahatma Gandhi “Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.” Napoleon Hill “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” Albert Einstein “Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.” “Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.” “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” “Failure is the foundation of success, and the means by which it is achieved.” “Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.” “Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.” “Fear melts when you take action towards a goal you really want.” “First we are children to our parents, then parents to our children, then parents to our parents, then children to our children” “Focus on your potential instead of your limitations.” “For hope is but the dream of those that wake.” “For me, goals are my road map to the life I want. They have helped me accomplish things I once thought were impossible.” “Fortune favors the brave.” Publius Terence “Gaining time is gaining everything in love, trade and war.” “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” “Give everyone their one minute.” “Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.” “Goal setting is the core of existence that defines life.” “Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.” Brian Tracy “Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.” “Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.” “Goals determine what you’re going to be.” “Goals give you a compass in order to direct your path through life. Goals focus your thoughts and actions on areas that have precise purpose and meaning.” “Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.” “Goals in writing are dreams with deadlines.” “God cannot alter history but historians can.” “Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions.” “Good plans shape good decisions. That’s why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true.” “Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.” “Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.” “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” “Greetings! I am pleased to see that we are different. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us.” “Growth is the only evidence of life.” “Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.” “He lives long that lives well; and time misspent is not lived but lost.” Thomas Fuller “He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.” “He who hesitates is lost.” “He who molds the public sentiment… makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.” “He who know most grieves most for wasted time.” “How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I’m committed to?” “How soon ‘not now’ becomes ‘never’.” “Humility makes great men twice honourable.” “I am definitely going to take a course on time management just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.” “I can’t think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn’t help, just a little bit.” “I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That’s what life is.” “I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.” “I enjoy making the decisions.” “I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it’s time America was run like a business.” “I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.” “I Like this quote I dislike this quote There are lighter colors of granite and I like to break the rules.” “I Like this quote I dislike this quote Throughout the country, I see the same design problems and solutions over and over.” “I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. don’t take counsel of your fears.” “I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction.” “I never make conscious decisions.” “I try to instill in people the idea that they’ve all got individual personalities, and they should do what they want to their homes.” Douglas Wilson “I understand everybody in this country doesn’t agree with the decisions I’ve made. And I made some tough decisions. But people know where I stand.” “I’m a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” “I’m speaking for all of us. I’m the spokesman for a generation.” “If at first you don’t succeed, you’re running about average.” “If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.” “If you care at all, you’ll get some results. If you care enough, you’ll get incredible results.” J “If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.” “If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” “If you have to climb on high hill then waiting will not make it small. Just go ahead.” “If you haven’t found something to live for you better find something to die for.” “If you look at today, you’ve got to say yesterday was a sucker’s rally.” “If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.” “If you want to learn to swim, jump into the water. On dry land, no frame of mind is ever going to help you.” “If you want to make good use of your time, you’ve got to know what’s most important and then give it all you’ve got.” “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” “In achieving your goals, you may run into roadblocks. Don’t let that stop you, go around, over, or under. If you are committed to your goal you will find a way.” “In my day, we didn’t have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.” “In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.” Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra “In the end, you’re measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.” “In the midst of conflict, there is absolutely nothing that produces gains as dramatically as listening.” “Inches make champions.” “Incorrect assumptions lie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumption.” “Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.” “Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.” “It does not matter the number of times we fall but the number of times we rise when we fall.” “It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.” “It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.” “It is only in our decisions that we are important.” “It was Grant’s company and he made all the decisions. And that was just fine.” “It’s a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions.” “It’s easy to make good decisions when there are no bad options.” “It’s everything and I always make decisions about the cast.” “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.” “It’s much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That’s the truth.” “It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?” “It’s not knowing what to do, it’s doing what you know.” “Kindness in words creates confidence; kindness in thinking creates profoundness; kindness in giving creates love.” “Know that it’s your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.” “Know yourself and you will win all battles.” “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” “Life’s ups and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want.” “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” Albert Einstein “Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood . . . Make big plans; aim high in hope and work.” “Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength.” “Make use of time, let not advantage slip.” William Shakespeare “Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.” “Man is the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.” Mahatma Gandhi “Many say I am just one to try. I say I am one less to quit.” “Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives’ decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.” “Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.” “Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.” “Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.” “Most saints live to regret their career choice.” “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” Jim Rohn “My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.” Mohandas K. Gandhi “Never leave ’till tomorrow which you can do today.” “Never let yesterday use up today.” “Never, never, never, never give up.” “No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.” Napoleon Hill “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.” “No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.” “Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.” “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” “Nothing humbler than Ambition, when it is about to climb.” “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” “Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.” “Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.” “Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.” “Now, I don’t make decisions as fast as I used to.” “Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.” “Often the real test of courage is not to die, but to live.” “Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.” “Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.” “One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.” “One of the amazing things we have been given as humans is the unquenchable desire to have dreams of a better life, and the ability to establish goals to live out those dreams.” “One of the best uses of your time is to increase your competence in your key result areas.” “Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.” “Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” “Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.” “Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.” “Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.” “Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.” “Out beyond all the ideas of rightdoing and wrongdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there.” “Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn’t have anything to do with it.” “Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.” “People often say that motivation doesn’t Last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily!” “People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.” “Personal power is the ability to take action.” “Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.” “Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.” “Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment. That is what’s real.” “Remember that time is money.” “Remember, you only have to succeed the last time.” “Repetition is the mother of skill.” “Satisfaction does not come with achievement, but with effort. Full effort is full victory.” “Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.” “Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.” “Say not I have found truth but rather I have found a truth.” “Secret thoughts and open countenance will go safely over the whole world.” “Seek first to understand, then to be understood.” “Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.” “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” Anthony Robbins “Some persons are very decisive when it comes to avoiding decisions.” “Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.” “Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.” Richard Bach “Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.” “Success is a welcomed gift for the uninhibited mind.” “Success knocks on the doors of those who are brave.” “Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.” “Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.” “Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves.” Lord Chesterfield “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” Michael Altshuler “The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.” “The best is yet to be.” “The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.” “The best way out is always through.” “The big shots are only the little shots who keep shooting.” Christopher Morley “The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.” “The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.” “The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.” “The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.” “The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I did not have time.” “The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.” “The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.” “The hearts earnest and pure desire is always fulfilled.” “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” “The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.” “The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.” “The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.” “The mind is like a fertile garden in which anything that is planted, flowers or weeds, will grow.” “The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.” “The most difficult part of getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.” “The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value” “The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” “The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” “The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.” “The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.” “The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.” “The quieter you became the more you can hear.” “The second word makes the quarrel” “The starting point of all achievement is desire.” “The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time.” “The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something.” “The time is always right to do what is right.” “The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.” “The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.” “The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.” “There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few we can solve by ourselves.” “There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.” “There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.” “There are three truths: my truth, your truth and the truth.” “There is no hope of success for the person who does not have a central purpose, or definite goal at which to aim.” “There is no situation so bad that getting angry can’t make it worse.” Anonymous “There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.” “There is nothing wrong with today’s teenager that twenty years won’t cure.” “There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women” “There’s no substitute for guts.” “They are able because they think they are able.” “This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.” “Those for whom peace is no more than a dream are asleep to the future.” “Those who make the worse use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.” “Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.” “Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.” Henry David Thoreau “Time = life; therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.” “Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.” “Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.” “Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose.” “Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.” Delmore Schwartz “Time is the wisest counselor of all.” “Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.” “To achieve happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal.” “To be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with your work.” Sister Mary Lauretta “To do two things at once is to do neither.” “To fly, we have to have resistance.” “To have more than you’ve got, become more than you are.” “To move ahead you need to believe in yourself…have conviction in your beliefs and the confidence to execute those beliefs.” “To succeed, we must first believe that we can.” “To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.” Eva Young “Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work.” “Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.” “Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.” “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” “Uncertainty over the eventual resolution of this conflict would help discourage aggressive selling interest.” “Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.” “Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.” “We all need lots of powerful long range goals to help us past the short term obstacles.” “We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.” Winston Churchill “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.” “We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.” “We must use time creatively and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.” “We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership” “We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.” “Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.” “Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.” “What mighty contests rise from trivial things.” “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” “When anger rises, think of the consequences.” “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 which has been opened for us.” “When the solution is simple, God is answering.” “When you cease to dream you cease to live.” “When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.” “When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.” “When you know what you want, and want it badly enough, you’ll find a way to get it.” “Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision” “When you set goals, something inside of you starts saying, “Let’s go, let’s go,” and ceilings start to move up.” “When your fear touches someone’s pain it becomes pity; when your love touches someone’s pain, it becomes compassion.” “When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.” “Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.” “Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.” “Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.” Helmut Schmidt “Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.” “Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.” “With a little more hard work, you creativity takes you to great heights.” “Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.” “Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.” “Without passion, you don’t have energy; without energy, you have nothing. Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.” “Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.” “Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.” “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” “You can’t shake hands with a fist.” “You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” “You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.” “You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.” “You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.” “You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die, or when. You can decide how you’re going to live now.” “You have the power to change.” “You have to know what you want to get it.” “You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.” “You have to set goals that are almost out of reach. If you set a goal that is attainable without much work or thought, you are stuck with something below your true talent and potential.” “You may delay, but time will not.” “You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.” “You see things as they are and ask, Why? I dream things as they never were and ask, Why not?” “You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.” “You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.” “You will resemble, tomorrow, the DOMINATING THOUGHTS that you keep alive in your mind today!” “You will resemble, tomorrow, the DOMINATING THOUGHTS that you keep alive in your mind today!” “You’re writing the story of your life one moment at a time.” “Your greatest resource is your time.” “Your life is what your thoughts make it.”
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| “A child’s attitude toward everything is an artist’s attitude.” | Willa | Cather |
| “A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.” | Brian | Tracy |
| “A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.” | H. Stanley | Judd |
| “A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.” | Norman | Douglas |
| “A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.” | Jean De La | Fontaine |
| “A positive attitude can really make dreams come true — it did for me.” | Zina | Garrison |
| “A positive attitude may not solve every problem but it makes solving any problem a more pleasant experience.” | Grant | Fairley |
| “A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.” | Francis | Bacon |
| “A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” | Thomas | Mann |
| “Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.” | Lou | Holtz |
| “Abundance is, in large part, an attitude” | Sue | Patton Thoele |
| “Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one” | Hans | Selye |
| “All that’s required to write comedy is a sense of humor. And you can write it without leaving the comfort of your own personality.” | J. Kevin | Wolfe |
| “All words are pegs to hang ideas on.” | Henry | WarBeecherd |
| “Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.” | Candice M | Pope |
| “An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?” | Michel | De Saint-Pierre |
| “As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.” | George Bernard | Shaw |
| “As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.” | James | Lane Allen |
| “Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” | Winston | Churchill |
| “Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.” | Jim | Rohn |
| “Attitudes are more important than facts.” | Karl A | Menninger |
| “Basically, our goal is to organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful.” | Larry | Page |
| “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” | Wayne | Dyer |
| “Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.” | Napoleon | Hill |
| “Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.” | Swami | Sivananda |
| “Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” | James | Dean |
| “Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.” | Bo | Bennett |
| “Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.” | Dennis | Waitley |
| “Fear melts when you take action towards a goal you really want.” | Robert G | Allen |
| “Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.” | Brian | Tracy |
| “Goals determine what you’re going to be.” | Julius | Erving |
| “Growth is the only evidence of life.” | Cardinal | Newman |
| “How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I’m committed to?” | Anthony | Robbins |
| “How soon ‘not now’ becomes ‘never’.” | Martin | Luther |
| “If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.” | Brian | Tracy |
| “If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” | Yogi | Berra |
| “If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.” | Andrew | Carnegie |
| “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” | John Quincy | Adams |
| “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.” | Walt | Disney |
| “Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.” | Abraham | Lincoln |
| “Never, never, never, never give up.” | Winston | Churchill |
| “Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.” | Karen | Ravn |
| “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” | Zig | Ziglar |
| “People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.” | Andrew | Carnegie |
| “Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.” | Pamela Vaull | Starr |
| “Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.” | Wayne | Dyer |
| “Success is a welcomed gift for the uninhibited mind.” | Adlin | Sinclair |
| “To move ahead you need to believe in yourself…have conviction in your beliefs and the confidence to execute those beliefs.” | Adlin | Sinclair |
| “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” | Benjamin | Spock |
| “When the solution is simple, God is answering.” | Albert | Einstein |
| “When you cease to dream you cease to live.” | Malcolm | Forbes |
| “When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.” | Wayne | Dyer |
| “When you set goals, something inside of you starts saying, “Let’s go, let’s go,” and ceilings start to move up.” | Zig | Ziglar |
| “Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.” | Vince | Lombardi |
| “Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.” | Fitzhugh | Dodson |
| “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” | C.S. | Lewis |
| “You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.” | Brian | Tracy |
| “You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.” | Charles C. | Noble |
| “You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.” | Henry | Drummond |
