Quotes

"For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour."
— Mary Kay Ash

"When nobody around you measures up, it's time to check your yardstick."
— Bill Lemly

"It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed."
— Harvey S. Firestone

"The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek."
— Robert Louis Stevenson

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. "
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"Let go of the past and go for the future. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined. "
— Henry David Thoreau

"Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve! "
— Andrew Carnegie

"All through nature, you will find the same law. First the need, then the means. "
— Robert Collier

"You don't need an explanation for everything. Recognize that there are such things as miracles, events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily. "
— Harry Browne

"Success...My nomination for the single most important ingredient is energy well directed. "
— Louis Lundborg

"In the end, we do battle only with ourselves. Once we understand this and focus our energy on what we can do to control our lives... we begin to gain important insights into how life works. "
— J. Stanley Judd

"I found that I could find the energy... that I could find the determination to keep on going. I learned that your mind can amaze your body, if you just keep telling yourself, I can do it...I can do it...I can do it! "
— Jon Erickson

"Do your work with your whole heart and you will succeed-there's so little competition. "
— Elbert Hubbard

"When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. "
— Napoleon Hill

"Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow. "
— Norman Vincent Peale

"No matter what we want of life we have to give up something in order to get it. "
— Raymond Holliwell

"You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing. "
— Andrew Jackson

"Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything. "
— Harry Browne

"Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. "
— Chief Seattle

"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us 'the universe.' Our tasks must be to widen our circle of compassion. To embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. "
— Albert Einstein

"You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. "
— John Wooden

"Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today."
— Benjamin Franklin

"When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first. "
— Josiah Quincy

"The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose."
— E.M. Gray

"Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground. "
— Theodore Roosevelt

"Climb high; climb far. Your goal is the sky; your aim is the star. "
— Inscription at Williams College

"Set the course of your lives by the three stars- sincerity, courage, unselfishness. From these flow a host of other virtues... He who follows them and does not seek success, will attain the highest type of success. that which lies in the esteem of those among whom he dwells. "
— Dr. Monroe E. Deutsch

"It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle. "
— Richard M. DeVos

"My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces. "
— Wilma Rudolph, Winner of 3 Gold Medals in running events 1960 Summer Olympics

"Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities. "
— Ralph Waldo Trine

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. "
— Arthur C. Clarke

"Reduce your plan to writing... The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire."
— Napoleon Hill

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed people can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has. "
— Margaret Mead

"THE PROBLEMS OF THIS WORLD cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were. "
— John F. Kennedy

"There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces... (such as tornados, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain.) What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control. "
— Leo Buscaglia

"Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either."
— Golda Meir

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Do what you fear most and you control fear."
— Tom Hopkins

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face... The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it... You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. "
— Vince Lombardi

"One cannot get through life without pain... What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us."
— Bernie Siegel

"You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again."
— Henry Ford

"No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched."
— George Jean Nathan

"Anyone can become angry--that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way-- that is not easy."
 — Aristotle