Daily Quotes

“A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

by William Shakespeare

"There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it."
— Napoleon Hill

"There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love to do, there is only scarcity of resolve to make it happen."
— Wayne Dyer

"The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them."
— Denis Waitley

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
— Richard M. DeVos

"The first step to becoming is to will it."
— Mother Teresa

"People with goals succeed because they know where they are going... It's as simple as that."
— Earl Nightingale

"Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working 24 hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force."
— Tom Blandi

 

"The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimist lends encouragement."
— William Arthur Ward

"You become what you think about."
— Earl Nightingale

"People with goals succeed because they know where they are going... It's as simple as that."
— Earl Nightingale

"You, too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. "
— W. Clement Stone

"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want. "
— Ben Stein

"Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working 24 hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force."
— Tom Blandi

"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success."
— Henry David Thoreau

"The most important thing about goals is having one."
— Geoffry F. Abert

"This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything. "
— Scott Reed

"The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them. "
— Denis Waitley

"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

"There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it. "
— Napoleon Hill

"Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin. "
— Robert Collier

"Concentrate: put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket. "
— Andrew Carnegie

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."
— John Quincy Adams

"The first step to becoming is to will it."
— Mother Teresa

"I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. "
— John D. Rockefeller

"The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible. "
— Richard M. DeVos

"What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims. "
— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

"All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible. "
— Orison Swett Marden

"Aim for success not perfection... Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person. "
— Dr. David Burns

"He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king."
— John Milton

"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh--at yourself. "
— Ethel Barrymore

"The first thing I remember liking that liked me back was food. "
— Rhoda Morgenstern

"The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again. "
— Erma Bombeck

"Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and spend it rather than invest it."
— Jim Rohn

"Perseverance is more prevailing than violence and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little."
— Plutarch

"Forewarned, forearmed, is to be prepared is half the victory."
— Miguel de Cervantes

"The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. "
— Confucius

"Only in growth, reform and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. "
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in making new landscapes but in having new eyes."
— Marcel Proust

"A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve. "
— John Maxwell

"Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it. "
— Rabindranath Tagore

"In the power to change yourself is the power to change the world around you. "
— Anwar Sadat

"Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing. "
— Abraham Lincoln

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts....take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature."
— Marcus Aurelius

"He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great street-sweeper who did his job well'."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down."
— Mary Pickford

"Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience. "
— Harold Ruopp

"Success is never final and failure never fatal. It is courage that counts. "
— George F. Tilton

"There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience had brought it home."
— John Stuart Mill

"Fight one more round. When your arms are so tired that you can hardly lift your hands to come on guard, fight one more round. When your nose is bleeding and your eyes are black and you are so tired that you wish your opponent would crack you one on the jaw and put you to sleep, fight one more round – remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped."
— James Corbett

"A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must...be undaunted when the going gets tough."
— Ronald Reagan

"Big goals get big results. No goals get no results or somebody else's results.."
— Mark Victor Hansen

"Do a little more each day than you think you can."
— Lowell Thomas

"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory. "
— Mohandas Gandhi

"I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work. "
— Harry S. Truman

"When you believe you can-you can!"
— Maxwell Maltz

"Once you have a clear picture of your priorities- that is values, goals, and high leverage activities- organize around them. "
— Stephen Covey

"When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed,' you find that it simply means to follow through."
— F. W. Nichol

"I am an irresistible magnet, with the power to attract unto myself everything that I divinely desire, according to the thoughts, feelings and mental pictures I constantly entertain and radiate. I am the center of my universe! I have the power to create whatever I wish. I attract whatever I radiate. I attract whatever I mentally choose and accept. I begin choosing and mentally accepting the highest and best in life. I now choose and accept health, success and happiness. I now choose lavish abundance for myself and for all mankind. This is a rich, friendly universe and I dare to accept its riches, its hospitality, and to enjoy them now!"
— Catherine Ponde

"Our very business in life is not to get ahead of others... but to get ahead of ourselves."
— Thomas L. Monson

"Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. "
— Jacob A. Riis

"If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us ... we would all be millionaires. "
— Abigail Van Buren

"The obstacles that others put in our path can be pushed aside in any number of ways. The obstacles that you put in your own way can be removed only by the same hands. "
— Sophia Bedford-Pierce

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles... but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. "
— Buddha

"Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can."
— The Dalai Lama

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. "
— Louisa May Alcott

"Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results. "
— Denis Waitley

"The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him... and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too. "
— Samuel Butler

"If you decide to go for it, do it with spirit: Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal. "
— Charles Buxton

"Our greatest glory consists not in never falling... but in rising every time we fall. "
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Movement without direction will create a hole in the ground. "
— Sophia Bedford-Pierce

"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."
— Madeline L'Engle

"One's ships come in over a calm sea. "
— Florence Scovill Shinn

"Everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emotional, and a spiritual. Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time, but unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person. "
— Rumer Godden

"We've collected the most common service complaints.... and every one of them is rooted in a lack of respect for the customer."
— Leonard Berry

"Go for the moon. If you don't get it, you'll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of the creative effort. "
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it. "
— Mae West

"When employees come to you with suggestions or ideas about how they might approach something differently, do you move immediately to no? Do you kill an idea before it is even off the tongue? (Tell the truth.) We hear that employees feel put down and turned down far more than their managers are aware. And that makes leaving easier. Instead try listening to the entire idea, try playing with it as a "what if." Ask for more information. Sleep on it, mull it over. Think, "Isn't that interesting" before you think, "It will never work. "
— Beverly Kay and Sharon Jordan-Evans

"The mere word kindness is grateful to our ears; so much good is implied in it, so much lightening of loads, so much brightening of dark lives. It is compounded of so many warm, noble things: once it is a manifestation of pity, once of sympathy, once of love, once of justice -- it can flow from so many springs in our soul. "
— Ruhiyyah Rabbani

"Business is a great teacher: It makes you take risks, go for your dreams, face fears, handle your emotions, deal with difficult people, and learn balance. You don't have to do any weird workshops or sign up for any therapy sessions. Go into business and you'll be enrolled in the greatest seminar of all time. And it happens every day, every where, to every one. You can't avoid it. "
— Joe Vitale

"The best things in life have little to do with money or success. They are based on heart, compassion, and allowing others to express their passions."
— Declan Dunn

"Learn to pause.... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you."
— Doug King

"Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution."
— Raymond E. Feist

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
— Bill Cosby

"The future is not in the hands of fate, but in ours."
— Jules Jusseran

"There are only two lasting bequests we can give our children... one is roots, the other wings."
— Stephen Covey

"The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck. "
— Anthony Robbins

"The problem with most failing businesses is not that their owners don’t know enough about finance, marketing, management, and operations -- they don’t, but those things are easy enough to learn -- but that they spend their time and energy defending what they think they know. My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren’t so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more."
— Michael Gerber