Quotes
One of the best collection of quotes you will find anywhere.
Action
Many a false step was made by standing still. | Unknown
The value of an idea lies in using it. | Thomas Edison
Do not wait to strike until the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking it. | William Sprague
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. | Ralph Waldo Emerson
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly | Robert Schuller
The few who do are the envy of the many that watch. | Jim Rohn
The greatest gap in life is the one between knowing and doing. | Richard Biggs
You can’t contemplate your way to greatness. | Peter Sheahan
Action makes more fortune than caution. | Luc De Clapiers
Those who woulda-shoulda-coulda all ran away from the one that did. | Shel Silverstein
Action is the foundational key to all success. | Pablo Picasso
Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on to something sitting down. | Charles Kettering
Adversity
We are not here to stick our toes in the water, we are here to make waves. | Alan Weiss
You will never become a category of one if you run with the pack. | Seth Godin
When you are small, act big. When you are big, act small. | Unknown
Do what is necessary to succeed in life, not what is popular to fit in. | Lindsay Jones
Respect everybody. Be intimidated by no one. | Del Gilbert
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. | Jim Rohn
Choices
“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.” – Anthony Robbins
“If you have brains in your head and feet in your shoes, you can steer yourself in any direction you choose.” – Dr. Suess
Christianity
“For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.” -2 Timothy 1:7
“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting: it has been found difficult and left untried.” -G.K. Chesterson
“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.” -Saint Augustine
“Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He’s going to be up all night anyway.” -Mary C. Crowley
“You weren’t an accident. You weren’t mass produced. You aren’t an assembly line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on Earth by the Master Craftsman.” -Max Lucado
“Heaven is full of answers to prayer for which no one bothered to ask.” -Billy Graham
“I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.” -Lou Holtz
“You can tell the size of your God by looking at the size of your worry list. The longer your list, the smaller your God.” -Unknown
“Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in; aim at earth and you get neither.” -C. S. Lewis
“In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.” -Isaac Newton
“Fear keeps us up all night long but faith makes one fine pillow.” – Unknown
“He who kneels before God and can stand before anyone.” – Unknown
“Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.” – G. K. Chesterton
“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.” – Corrie Ten Boom
“God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are. ” – Tim Keller
“He who kneels before God and can stand before anyone.” – Unknown
Conflict
Three fourths of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world will disappear if we step into the shoes of our adversaries and understand their viewpoint. As we really understand the other point of view, we often find our own point of view changed through increased understanding. -Ghandi
I’ve always believed that a lot of the trouble in the world would disappear if we were talking to each other instead of about each other. -Ronald Reagan
“The high road has the best view.” -Unknown
“You can’t shake hands with a closed fist.” -Ghandi
“Leadership has a harder job than to choose sides. it must bring the sides together.” – Unknown
“You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.” -John Knox
“If two people on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless.” – Darryl Zanuck
“The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It’s the presence of a reconciling spirit.” -Bill Hybels
“I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.” -Frances Willard
“Try to build a bridge, not win an argument.” -Andy Stanley
Company You Keep
“Keep away from people who try and belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel you too can become great.” -Mark Twain
“You are the average of the 5 people you choose to spend the most time with.” – Jim Rohn
“Whoever walks with wise people will be wise.” – Proverbs 13:20
“Show me your friends and I will show you your future.” – Unknown
“Some people cause happiness wherever they go, others whenever they go.” – Winston Churchill
“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” – Henry Ford
Courage
“The wishbone will never replace the backbone.” -Will Henry
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin
“We are not here to stick our toes in the water. We’re here to make waves.” -Alan Weiss
“You can’t thrive tentatively.” -Unknown
“To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.” -Soren Kierkegaard
“What looks large from the distance, close up ain’t never that big.” -Bob Dylan
“Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength.” -Charles Spurgeon
“The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are often the same thing.” -Tara Collins
Enthusiasm
“Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.” – John Wesley
“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” -Zig Ziglar
“Knowledge is power but enthusiasm pulls the switch.” – Ivern Ball
Excellence
“When you do more than you are paid to do, the day will come when you will be paid more for what you do.” -Zig Ziglar
“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word-excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.” -Pearl S. Buck
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.” -Aristotle
“The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today’s work superbly well.” -William Osler
“Excellence is when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.” -Jose Ortega
“Give to the world the best you have, and the best will come back to you.” -Madeline Bridges
“Be at your best when your best is needed.” -John Wooden
“Work is doing it. Discipline is doing it every day. Excellence is doing it every day with diligence.” -Dave Ramsey
“Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is the next 5 minutes.” – Tom Peters
“Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.” – Leonard Barry
“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” – Vince Lombardi
“Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second wind.” – William James
“Never compare your beginning to someone else’s middle.” -Jon Acuff
“If you see someone at the top of the mountain, you can be certain they didn’t fall there.” – Adolph Rupp
“The person who moves mountains begins by carrying away small stones.” – Confucius
“Nobody who ever gave their best regretted it.” – George Halas
“Most people have the will to win, few people have the will to prepare.” – Vince Lombardi
“90% of success in life is showing up, prepared.” – Jeffrey Gitomer
Goals
“The world makes way for a person who knows where they are going.” -Unknown
“Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I will give you someone who will make history. Give me someone without a goal and I will give you a stock clerk.” -J.C. Penney
“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short. but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark.” -Michelangelo
“People fail through a lack of purpose rather than lack of talent.”-Billy Sunday
“A person with a clear purpose will make progress on even the toughest road. A person with no purpose will not make progress on even the smoothest road.” -Thomas Carlyle
“We over estimate the event and under estimate the process.” – John Maxwell
“If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse.” – Unknown
“If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator.” – W. Beran Wolfe
“Life without goals is like a race with no finish line.” -Ed Trenner
“Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir one’s blood. Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.” – Daniel Burnham
“The fool wanders, a wise person travels.” – Thomas Fuller
“If you see someone at the top of the mountain, you can be certain they didn’t fall there.” – Adolph Rupp
Gratitude
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it, is like wrapping a gift and never giving it.” -William Ward
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” -Cicero
“You can get glad in the same pants you got mad in.” – Billye Sanders
“He is richest who is content with the least.” – Socrates
“When I hear someone say life is hard, I am tempted to say ‘compared to what?”- Unknown
Habits
“Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.” -Nathaniel Emmons
“Good habits are difficult to acquire but easy to live with. Bad habits are easy to acquire but difficult to live with.” – Jim Rohn
“Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.” -Unknown
Humility
“Never believe you are better than anyone else, but always remember you are just as good as anybody.” -John Wooden
“Being powerful is like being a lady, if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.” – Margaret Thatcher
“Humble people don’t think less of themselves, they just think of themselves less.” -Ken Blanchard
“Of all the diseases known to man, conceit is the weirdest of all. It makes everyone sick except the one who has it.” -Unknown
“Let someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.” -Will Rogers
“Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.” – Brian Tracy
“To admit you were wrong is to declare you are wiser now than before.” – Unknown
“Everyone you meet has something to teach you.” – Unknown
Humor
“I went to the general store but they wouldn’t let me buy anything specific.” -Steven Wright
“It usually takes three weeks to prepare for a good impromptu speech.” -Mark Twain
“Sometimes I think that the whole world is against me. Deep down I know that it is not true. Some of the smaller countries are neutral.” -Steven Wright
“Outside of a dog, books are a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” -Groucho Marx
“I was trying to daydream but my mind kept wandering.” -Steven Wright
“I have enough money to last me the rest of my life. Unless I buy something.” -Jackie Mason
“Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.” -Steven Wright
“I find television very educational. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” -Groucho Marx
“I don’t believe in reincarnation, but in my previous life, I did.” -Steven Wright
“Even if you win the rat race, you are still a rat.” -Lily Tomlin
“If you listen to a motivational tape backwards, you become a failure.” -Steven Wright
“I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.” -Lily Tomlin
“I bought some batteries, but they weren’t included. ” -Steven Wright
“I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.” -Henny Youngman
“I’m writing an unauthorized autobiography. ” -Steven Wright
“The secret to life is being honest and genuine. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.” -Groucho Marx
“I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.” -Steven Wright
“A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.” -Unknown
“I went to a restaurant that serves ‘breakfast at any time’. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.” -Steven Wright
“My mother’s menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.” -Buddy Hackett
“It’s more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long difficult words but rather short easy words like “What about lunch?” -Winnie the Pooh
“That restaurant is always so crowded that nobody goes there anymore.” -Yogi Berra
“Thank you for calling the Weight Loss hotline. If you would like to lose a half pound right now, press #1 eighteen thousand times.” -Unknown
“I am not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.” -Yogi Berra
“Five out of every four people have trouble with math.” -Unknown
“I would stop eating chocolate but …I am not a quitter.” -Unknown
“Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stairs and I thought to myself, where the heck is the ceiling.” -Unknown
“When they asked George Washington for his ID, he just took out a quarter.” -Steven Wright
“Last week I went to a furniture store to look for a decaffeinated coffee table.” – Steven Wright
“What’s another word for Thesaurus?” – Steven Wright
Integrity
“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” -John Wooden
“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.” -Albert Einstein
“In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.” -Thomas Jefferson
“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” -Warren Buffett
“You have be before you can do and you have to do before you can have.” -Zig Ziglar
“Your position gives you authority but your behavior earns you respect.” -Unknown
“Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it’s the only thing.” – Albert Schweitzer
“A leader’s most powerful ally is his or her example.” -John Wooden
“Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.” -Abraham Lincoln
“Charisma can make a person stand out for a moment, but character sets a person apart for a lifetime.” – John Maxwell
“Never be thrown off stride in how you behave or what you believe because of outside events.” – John Wooden
“You can’t have the fruits without the roots.” – Stephen Covey
“It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way you will go.” – Jim Rohn
“Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside.” – Brian Tracy
Interpersonal Skills
“You can make more friends in two months by being interested in others than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.” -Dale Carnegie
“If the world were run perfectly, perhaps you would be promoted, advanced and rewarded on the basis of sheer ability. But the world doesn’t work that way or even close to that way. When your superiors look for someone to promote, they look for someone they know and like. So go out and make yourself likeable. That’s just how winning players play the game.” -Ben Stein
“The ability to work well with people is as purchasable a commodity as coffee and sugar. And I pay more for that ability than any other under the sun.” -J.D. Rockefeller
“Today the most useful person in the world is the person who knows how to get along with other people.” -Stanley Allyn
“A gossip is someone who talks to you about others A bore is someone who talks to you about themselves. A brilliant conversationalist is someone who talks to you about you.” -Lisa Kirk
“Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in the real life grows.” -Ben Stein
“We spend way too much time trying to be interesting and too little time being interested.” -Jim Collins
“There are two types of people. Those who come in a room and say ‘Well, here I am,’ and those who come in and say ‘Ah, there you are.” -Frederick Collins
“Remember that a person’s name, to that person, is the sweetest and most important sound in any language.” – Dale Carnegie
“Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone around you and you will be surprised what a happy life you will live.” -Charles Schwab
“A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.” -Chinese Proverb
”People may not remember exactly what you did, or what you said, but they will always remember how you made them feel.”- Maya Angelou
Leadership
“Leadership is taking people places they wouldn’t have gotten to by themselves.” – Unknown
“Leadership. I revere the opportunity and obligation it confers, namely the power to change lives and make a difference. For me, leadership is a sacred trust.” -John Wooden
“PhD in leadership. Short course: make a list of all the things done to you that you hate. Don’t do them to others, ever. Make a list of all the things done to you that you love. Do them to others, always.” -Tom Peters
“No person can be a great leader unless she takes genuine joy in the successes of those under her.” -W. H. Auden
“Great leaders are always out front with a banner, instead of behind with a whip.” -John Wooden
“A good leaders inspires others with confidence in him or her; a great leader inspires them with confidence in themselves.” -Benjamin Disraeli
“Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough to lead them.” – John Maxwell
“If you can’t energize others, you can’t be a leader.” -Jack Welch
“People don’t leave companies, they leave bosses.” -Beverly Kaye
“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better.” -Mother Teresa
“You cannot permanently help others by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.” -Abraham Lincoln
“Initiative is not given, it is taken.” – Seth Godin
Life
“Life is meant to be a feast and most poor suckers are starving to death.” -Rosalind Russell
“Genius is the infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.” -Katherine Hepburn
“Three things are extremely hard: steel, a diamond and to know oneself.” -Benjamin Franklin
“It is never to late to be what you might have been.” -George Eliot
“If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.” -Charley Reese
“Be yourself. Everybody else is already taken.” -Unknown
“Happiness begins where selfishness ends.” -John Wooden
“A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.” -Ken Keyes
“The best things in life are not things.” -Unknown
“Nothing we do can change the past. Everything we do changes the future.” -Winston Churchill
“A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.” -William Ward
“Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.” -Chinese Proverb
“It’s okay to like money, just remember to love people.” – Simon Sinek
“Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future.” – Warren Buffett
“You will never get ahead if you are trying to get even with someone.” – Lou Holtz
“Worry is as useless as a handle on a snowball.” – Mitzi Chandler
“Happiness is the place between too much and too little.” – Finnish Proverb
“You are either a blessing or a burden; an asset or a liability; a problem solver or a problem.” – Dr. Adeyemi
The Mind
“How we think determines our behavior. You can’t change the fruit if you don’t change the root.” -Unknown
“You will become on the outside what you believe on the inside.” -Unknown
“Nourish the mind like you would your body. The mind cannot survive on junk food.” -Jim Rohn
“Every time we open our mouths, people look into our minds.” -Unknown
“The ancestor of every action is thought.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Right thinking leads to right living.” -Unknown
“If you want to know where your heart is, look to where your mind wanders.” – Unknown
“I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.” – Gandhi
“Sour thoughts do make for sweet dreams.”- Unknown
Personal Development
“Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.” -Unknown
“If you are not continually learning and upgrading your skills, somewhere, someone else is. And when you meet that person, you lose.” – Reid Buckley
“The person who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the person who can’t read them.” -Mark Twain
“I want to learn so much, so fast that I am constantly surprised at how stupid I was two weeks ago.” -Alan Weiss
“All greatness is achieved while performing outside our comfort zone.” -Greg Arnold
“The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could.” -Paul Hogan
“Successful people look at themselves as a work in progress. Unsuccessful people look at themselves as the finished product.” -Unknown
“You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills.” -Jim Rohn
“We don’t grow old. We get old by not growing.” – Gary Mack
“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order to learn how to do it.” – Pablo Picasso
“The more you read, the more you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
Personal Responsibility
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” -Peter Drucker
“If we could kick the person responsible for most of our troubles, we wouldn’t be able to sit down for a week.” -Unknown
“I heard there is a recession but I decided not to participate.” -Dave Ramsey
“Your life today is the result of your choices and decisions in the past. When you make new choices, you make a new future.” -Brian Tracy
“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, they make them,” -George Bernard Shaw
“Nobody got muscles by watching me lift weights.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger
“The more you are concerned with things you can’t control, the less you will do to improve the things you can control.” -Unknown
“When you blame others you give up your power to change.” -Unknown
“I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.” -Florence Nightingale
“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.” -Maya Angelou
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no thinks of changing himself.” – Leo Tolstoy
“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.” -John Wooden
“He who is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else” -Benjamin Franklin
“The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.” -John Maxwell
“The more you take responsibility for your past and present, the more you are able to create the future you seek.” – Unknown
“No one is sitting around figuring out how to make your life great. That is your job. Grab the steering wheel.” – Del Gilbert
“If you don’t like how things are, change it. You are not a tree.” – Jim Rohn
Potential
“The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.” -Abraham Maslow
“Every person alive is filled to the brim with value and possibilities, with passion, with purpose. Whenever all that abundance is focused and directed, the result is an undeniable greatness.” -Ralph Marston
“Life is like a 10 speed bike, most of us have gears we never use.” -Charlie Brown
“If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” -Thomas Edison
“If you deliberately plan on being less that you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be unhappy for the rest of your life.” -Abraham Maslow
“I am always doing things I can’t do. That is how I get to do them” -Pablo Picasso
“Do not be afraid to demand great things of yourself. Powers of which you have never dreamed will leap to your assistance.” -Orisen Marsden Swett
“Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but what you should have accomplished with your ability.” – John Wooden
“We know what we are but not what we may be.” – William Shakespeare
“Your past is not your potential.” – Harvey Mackay
“Try to bring out what God put in, not stuff in what God left out.” -Marcus Buckingham
“God made me fast. When I run, I feel His pleasure.” -Eric Liddell
“Find a tiny stream where your strengths can flow and turn it into a Mississippi.” -Marcus Buckingham
“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.” – John Ruskin
“Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.” – Leo Buscaglia
“Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What’s a sun-dial in the shade?” -Benjamin Franklin
Procrastination
“Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.” – Spanish Proverb
“Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.” – Robert Kyosaki
“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.” – John F. Kennedy
“The start is what stops people.” – Don Shula
“Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.” -William Feather
“The start is what stops people.” – Don Shula
“Let him that would move the world first move himself.” – Socrates
“We should not wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.” -Frank Tibolt
“Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to the lazy man.” -Jimmy Lyons
“The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.” -Baltasar Gracian
Self Discipline
“When you discipline yourself to 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
“The common denominator for success is forming the habit of doing things that most people don’t like to do.” -Albert Gray
“Discipline is the bridge between dreams and accomplishments.” -Unknown
“The first and best victory is to conquer self.” -Plato
“Discipline is the ability to carry through on a resolution long after the emotion with which the resolution was made is past” -Unknown
“If we don’t discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us.” -William Feather
“When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.” -Zig Ziglar
“The success you are enjoying today is the result of the price you paid in the past.” -Brian Tracy
“Immediate gratification is the enemy of lasting change.” – Mark Oakes
“It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.” – Tony Robbins
Service
“Life is like tennis: those who serve well, win.” -Ken Blanchard
“The only truly happy people I know are those who have found a cause greater than themselves to live for.” -William James
“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.” -Raplh Waldo Emerson
“You can have everything you want in life if you just help enough other people get what they want in of life.” -Zig Ziglar
“When you dig another out of his troubles, you find a place to bury your own.” -Unknown
“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try and cheer somebody else up.” -Mark Twain
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” -Mahatma Gandhi
“Service is nothing but love in work clothes” -Unknown
“Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What’s in it for me?” -Brian Tracy
“The road to success is not crowded because while most people are looking for ways to take, the truly successful people are finding ways to give.” -Unknown
“No one has the right to consume happiness without producing.” -Helen Keller
“Your customers dream of a happier and better life. Don’t move products, enrich lives” – Steve Jobs
“If you help enough people, you don’t have to worry about money.” – Dave Ramsey
“Go into the world not wanting, but offering.” – Unknown
“No one has ever become poor by giving.” – Anne Frank
Speech
“Kindness is in our power even when fondness is not.” -Samuel Johnson
“Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.” -Spanish proverb
“You shouldn’t criticize: It’s an easy habit to acquire and an impossible one to break. It robs your soul of character” -John Grisham
“A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.” -Jean Paul Richter
“Gossip is like acid. It damages the vessel in which it is stored as well as destroys the object on which it is poured.” -Unknown
“Wise people talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something” -Plato
“Speak in such a way that you would not be embarrassed to sell your family parrot to the town gossip.” -Will Rogers
“If you wouldn’t write it and sign it, don’t say it.” – Earl Wilson
“Talk less, say more.” – Simon Sinek
“No one has ever made himself great by showing how small someone else is.” – Irvin Himmel
“It is a wise person who has their afterthoughts first.” – Unknown
Success
“The best and quickest way to succeed is to simply help other people succeed.” -Napoleon Hill
“Success is the peace of mind which is a direct result of the satisfaction in knowing you did the best of which you are capable.” John Wooden
“Doing your best in the moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.” – Unknown
“When what we are is what we want to be, that is happiness.”-Malcolm Forbes
“The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places.” -Unknown
“Your success in life will be in direct proportion to what you do after you’ve done what is expected of you.” -Brian Tracy
“If you do more than you are paid to do, the day will come when you are paid more for what you do.” -Zig Ziglar
“Most people feel best about themselves when they have given their very best.” -Bill Hybels
“A successful life does not result from chance; nor is it determined by fate or good fortune, but rather through a succession of successful days.” – Ari Kiev
“Learn to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want” -Jim Rohn
“The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.” -Elbert Hubbard
“Success means having those closest to me love and respect me the most” -John Maxwell
“Success is failure with the dirt brushed off.” – Mamie McCollough
“If you want to be prosperous, make others prosperous.” – Alan Weiss
“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” – T.H. Huxley
“You can’t be great and negative at the same time.” – Dan Rockwell
“Don’t let small minds convince you that your dreams are too big.” – Unknown
Teamwork
“If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.” -Thomas Edison
“None of us is as smart as all of us.” -Chinese Proverb
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” -David Gergen
“A joy shared is double joy, A sorrow shared is half sorrow.”-Goethe
“In the absence of a great dream, pettiness prevails.” – Peter Senge
Time Management
“Make each day a masterpiece.” -John Wooden
“How we live our days is how we live our lives.” Annie Dillard
“Don’t go around the block to get next door.” -Alan Weiss
“You cannot give 50% today and 150% tomorrow.” -John Maxwell
“It is my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste time.” -Henry Ford
“Too many people get caught up in the thick of thin things.” -Stephen Covey
“The things that matter least should never be subject to things that matter most.” -Goethe
“Never mistake activity for achievement.” -John Wooden
“Devoting a little of yourself to everything means committing a great deal of yourself to nothing.” -Micheal Laboef
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” -Peter Drucker
“The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.” – S. Smiles
Work
“Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.” -Robert Schuller
“The glory and glamour come after to grunt work.” -Unknown
“Too many people quit looking for work when they find a job.” -Unknown
“If there is no dull and determined effort, there is no brilliant achievement.” -Hsun-tzu
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” -Beverly Sills
“The world is full of people vacationing on Someday, I’ll… ” -Unknown
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle” -Abraham Lincoln
“The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.’ -Joe Girard
“The man who rolls up his sleeves seldom loses his shirt.” -Unknown
“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety nine percent perspiration.”-Thomas Edison
“You don’t get paid by the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.” – Jim Rohn
“An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.” – Lao Tzu
“Diligence is a better horse to ride than genius.” – Walter Lippman
“The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your arm.” – Swedish Proverb
“Laziness means more work in the long run.” – C. S. Lewis
“Don’t bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill.” – Jim Rohn
“Stay hungry. It’s the only way not to go hungry.” – Unknown
“Laziness is simply the habit of resting before you get tired.” – Jules Renard
“No one ever drowned in their own sweat.” – Ann Landers
“Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.” – Miguel Cervantes
“You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.” – Jim Rohn
The Mind
“How we think determines our behavior. You can’t change the fruit if you don’t change the root.” -Unknown
“You will become on the outside what you believe on the inside.” -Unknown
“Nourish the mind like you would your body. The mind cannot survive on junk food.” -Jim Rohn
“Every time we open our mouths, people look into our minds.” -Unknown
“The ancestor of every action is thought.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Right thinking leads to right living.” -Unknown
“If you want to know where your heart is, look to where your mind wanders.” – Unknown
“I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.” – Gandhi
“Sour thoughts do make for sweet dreams.”- Unknown
“If you are going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big.” – Donald Trump
Life
“Life is meant to be a feast and most poor suckers are starving to death.” -Rosalind Russell
“Genius is the infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.” -Katherine Hepburn
“Three things are extremely hard: steel, a diamond and to know oneself.” -Benjamin Franklin
“It is never to late to be what you might have been.” -George Eliot
“If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.” -Charley Reese
“Be yourself. Everybody else is already taken.” -Unknown
“Happiness begins where selfishness ends.” -John Wooden
“A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.” -Ken Keyes
“The best things in life are not things.” -Unknown
“Nothing we do can change the past. Everything we do changes the future.” -Winston Churchill
“A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.” -William Ward
“Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.” -Chinese Proverb
“It’s okay to like money, just remember to love people.” – Simon Sinek
“Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future.” – Warren Buffett
“You will never get ahead if you are trying to get even with someone.” – Lou Holtz
“Worry is as useless as a handle on a snowball.” – Mitzi Chandler
“Happiness is the place between too much and too little.” – Finnish Proverb
“You are either a blessing or a burden; an asset or a liability; a problem solver or a problem.” – Dr. Adeyemi
Habits
“Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.” -Nathaniel Emmons
“Good habits are difficult to acquire but easy to live with. Bad habits are easy to acquire but difficult to live with.” – Jim Rohn
“Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.” -Unknown
Success
“The best and quickest way to succeed is to simply help other people succeed.” -Napoleon Hill
“Success is the peace of mind which is a direct result of the satisfaction in knowing you did the best of which you are capable.” John Wooden
“Doing your best in the moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.” – Unknown
“When what we are is what we want to be, that is happiness.”-Malcolm Forbes
“The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places.” -Unknown
“Your success in life will be in direct proportion to what you do after you’ve done what is expected of you.” -Brian Tracy
“If you do more than you are paid to do, the day will come when you are paid more for what you do.” -Zig Ziglar
“Most people feel best about themselves when they have given their very best.” -Bill Hybels
“A successful life does not result from chance; nor is it determined by fate or good fortune, but rather through a succession of successful days.” – Ari Kiev
“Learn to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want” -Jim Rohn
“The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.” -Elbert Hubbard
“Success means having those closest to me love and respect me the most” -John Maxwell
“Success is failure with the dirt brushed off.” – Mamie McCollough
“If you want to be prosperous, make others prosperous.” – Alan Weiss
“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” – T.H. Huxley
“You can’t be great and negative at the same time.” – Dan Rockwell
“Don’t let small minds convince you that your dreams are too big.” – Unknown
Teamwork
“If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.” -Thomas Edison
“None of us is as smart as all of us.” -Chinese Proverb
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” -David Gergen
“A joy shared is double joy, A sorrow shared is half sorrow.”-Goethe
“In the absence of a great dream, pettiness prevails.” – Peter Senge
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