Favorite Quotes
Here are a few of my favorite quotes:
| “Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.” | ~ | “Malcolm Forbes |
| “You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.” | ~ | “Thomas Wolfe |
| “Success is sweet, the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.” | ~ | A. Bronson Alcott |
| “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.” | ~ | Abraham Lincoln |
| “Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.” | ~ | Abraham Lincoln |
| “He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.” | ~ | Abraham Lincoln |
| “It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: ‘And this, too, shall pass away.” | ~ | Abraham Lincoln |
| “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” | ~ | Abraham Lincoln |
| “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” | ~ | Abraham Lincoln |
| “No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.” | ~ | Abraham Lincoln |
| “Things may come to those who wait but only the things left by those who hustle.” | ~ | Abraham Lincoln |
| “To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.” | ~ | Abraham Maslow |
| “Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.” | ~ | Adlai Stevenson |
| “Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure.” | ~ | Admiral Arleigh A. Burke |
| “If it’s a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.” | ~ | Admiral Grace Hopper |
| “I know of only one duty, and that is to love.” | ~ | Albert Camus |
| “Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.” | ~ | Albert Camus |
| “Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.” | ~ | Albert Camus |
| “To be happy, we must not e too concerned with others.” | ~ | Albert Camus |
| “You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.” | ~ | Albert Camus |
| “Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.” | ~ | Albert Einstein |
| “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” | ~ | Albert Einstein |
| “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” | ~ | Albert Einstein |
| “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” | ~ | Albert Einstein |
| “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” | ~ | Albert Einstein |
| “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” | ~ | Albert Einstein |
| “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” | ~ | Albert Einstein |
| “Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.” | ~ | Albert Einstein |
| “Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with the important matters.” | ~ | Albert Einstein |
| “In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.” | ~ | Albert Schweitzer |
| “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful” | ~ | Albert Schweitzer |
| “Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.” | ~ | Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi |
| “Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.” | ~ | Aldous Huxley |
| “Every man’s memory is his private literature.” | ~ | Aldous Huxley |
| “Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.” | ~ | Aldous Huxley |
| “Those who believe they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.” | ~ | Aldous Huxley |
| “People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work.” | ~ | Alexander Hamilton |
| “There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.” | ~ | Alexandre Ledru-Rollin |
| “Life is like the dice that, falling, still shows a different face. So life, though it remains the same, is always presenting different aspects.” | ~ | Alexis |
| “It is the want of diligence, rather than the want of means, that causes most failures.” | ~ | Alfred Mercier |
| “Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.” | ~ | Alice Meynell |
| “Life is a game. Don’t watch from the sidelines, get in and play!” | ~ | Allen Thompson |
| “With purpose and passion, the path presents itself.” | ~ | Allen Thompson |
| “You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.” | ~ | Alvin Toffler |
| “It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.” | ~ | Anatole France |
| “Nine tenths of education is encouragement.” | ~ | Anatole France |
| “The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.” | ~ | Andre Maurois |
| “No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.” | ~ | Andrew Carnegie |
| “There is little success where there is little laughter.” | ~ | Andrew Carnegie |
| “Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.” | ~ | Andrew Jackson |
| “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” | ~ | Andy Warhol |
| “I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.” | ~ | Anna Freud |
| “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.” | ~ | Anne Frank |
| “If you want too leave footprints in the sands of time, don’t drag your feet.” | ~ | Annot L. Sheppard |
| “The man who has done nothing but wait for his ship to come in has already missed the boat.” | ~ | Anonymous |
| “Think big, believe big, act big, and the results will be big.” | ~ | Anonymous |
| “Our waking hours form the text of our lives, our dreams, the commentary.” | ~ | Anonymous |
| “True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.” | ~ | Antoine de Saint Exupery |
| “The only real training for leadership is leadership.” | ~ | Antony Jay |
| “Happiness depends on ourselves” | ~ | Aristotle |
| “Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.” | ~ | Aristotle |
| “He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.” | ~ | Aristotle |
| “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.” | ~ | Aristotle |
| “The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.” | ~ | Arthur C. Clarke |
| “Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself.” | ~ | Arthur Schopenhauer |
| “Vigilance in watching opportunity; tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity; force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement – these are the martial virtues which must command success.” | ~ | Austin Phelps |
| “The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.” | ~ | B. R. Haydon |
| “Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.” | ~ | Barack Obama |
| “No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or you life that you want to change.” | ~ | Barbara de Angelis |
| “Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.” | ~ | Bayard Taylor |
| “Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it you can make it so. “ | ~ | Belva Davis |
| “Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.” | ~ | Benjamin Disraeli |
| “Experience is the child of thought, and thought s the child of action.” | ~ | Benjamin Disraeli |
| “One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” | ~ | Benjamin Disraeli |
| “The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.” | ~ | Benjamin Disraeli |
| “When I want to read a novel, I write one.” | ~ | Benjamin Disraeli |
| “It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.” | ~ | Benjamin E. Mays |
| “Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security.” | ~ | Benjamin Franklin |
| “Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.” | ~ | Benjamin Franklin |
| “Energy and persistence conquer all things.” | ~ | Benjamin Franklin |
| “Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.” | ~ | Benjamin Franklin |
| “He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.” | ~ | Benjamin Franklin |
| “It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.” | ~ | Benjamin Franklin |
| “The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.” | ~ | Benjamin Franklin |
| “There are no gains without pains.” | ~ | Benjamin Franklin |
| “Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.” | ~ | Bernadette Devlin |
| “Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.” | ~ | Bernard M. Baruch |
| “The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them..” | ~ | Bernard M. Baruch |
| “The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.” | ~ | Bernard M. Baruch |
| “You can overcome anything if you don’t bellyache.” | ~ | Bernard M. Baruch |
| “Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.” | ~ | Bertrand Russel |
| “I am a leader by default only because nature does not allow a vacuum.” | ~ | Bishop Desmond Tutu |
| “Kind words do not cost much.. Yet they accomplish much.” | ~ | Blaise Pascal |
| “Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.” | ~ | Blaise Pascal |
| “The biggest gap in your life is that between what you know and what you do.” | ~ | Bob Proctor |
| “The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.” | ~ | Brian Tracy |
| “Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.” | ~ | Brian Tracy |
| “Honest hearts produce honest actions.” | ~ | Brigham Young |
| “The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.” | ~ | Bruce Feirstein |
| “Who aims at excellence will be above mediocrity; who aims at mediocrity will be far short of it..” | ~ | Burmese Saying |
| “Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed.” | ~ | C. H. Parkhurst |
| “Success in life is a matter not so much of talent or opportunity as of concentration and perseverance.” | ~ | C. W. Wendte |
| “We’re so busy watching out for what’s just ahead of us that we don’t take time to enjoy where we are.” | ~ | Calvin & Hobbes |
| “All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.” | ~ | Calvin Coolidge |
| “If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me, I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.” | ~ | Calvin Coolidge |
| “No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.” | ~ | Calvin Coolidge |
| “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” | ~ | Carl Jung |
| “The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.” | ~ | Carl Sandburg |
| “They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” | ~ | Carl W. Buechner |
| “Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.” | ~ | Carlyle |
| “Most ball games are lost, not won.” | ~ | Casey Stengel |
| “The more a man knows, the more he forgives.” | ~ | Catherine the Great |
| “None are so found of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.” | ~ | Charles Caleb Colton |
| “Our minds are as different as our faces: we are all traveling to one destination; – happiness; but few are going by the same road.” | ~ | Charles Caleb Colton |
| “It doesn’t matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.” | ~ | Charles F. Kettering |
| “It’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.” | ~ | Charles F. Kettering |
| “You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.” | ~ | Charles F. Kettering |
| “Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.” | ~ | Charles Linbergh |
| “A day without laughter is a day wasted.” | ~ | Charlie Chaplin |
| “Everything I’ve ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.” | ~ | Chet Atkins |
| “It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.” | ~ | Chinese Proverb |
| “Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.” | ~ | Chinese Proverb |
| “The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” | ~ | Chinese Proverb |
| “What is told in the ear of a man is often heard 100 miles away.” | ~ | Chinese Proverb |
| “People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.” | ~ | Chuck Palahniuk |
| “It is what we think we know that often prevents us from learning.” | ~ | Claude Bernard |
| “It’s amazing how many cares disappear when you decide not to be something, but to be someone.” | ~ | Coco Chanel |
| “The very essence of leadership is its purpose. And the purpose of leadership is to accomplish a task. That is what leadership does–and what it does is more important than what it is or how it works.” | ~ | Colonel Dandridge M. Malone |
| “It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.” | ~ | Confucius |
| “Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.” | ~ | Confucius |
| “The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.” | ~ | Confucius |
| “Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.” | ~ | Corita Kent |
| “To win without risk is to triumph without glory.” | ~ | Corneille |
| “The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.” | ~ | Cornelius Nepos |
| “Character is a diamond that scratches every other stone.” | ~ | Cyrus A. Bartol |
| “The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.” | ~ | D.A. Battista |
| “Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see a bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.” | ~ | Dale Carnegie |
| “The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping.” | ~ | Dale Carnegie |
| “Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.” | ~ | Daniel Webster |
| “There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.” | ~ | David Burns |
| “People are more easily led than driven” | ~ | David Harold Fink |
| “Don’t be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated You can’t cross a chasm in two small steps.” | ~ | David Loyd George |
| “Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.” | ~ | David Ogilvy |
| “Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.” | ~ | Democritus |
| “Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.” | ~ | Demosthenes |
| “There are two primary choices in life: To accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.” | ~ | Dennis Waitley |
| “Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.” | ~ | Dennis Waitley |
| “Dreams seldom materialize on their own.” | ~ | Dian Fossey |
| “To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.” | ~ | Dorothea Brande |
| “Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible” | ~ | Doug Larson |
| “Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to e picked in strangers’ gardens.” | ~ | Douglas Jerrold |
| “Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.” | ~ | Douglas MacArthur |
| “What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.” | ~ | Douglas MacArthur |
| “When what you are doing isn’t working,, you tend to do more of the same and with greater intensity.” | ~ | Dr. Bill Maynard & Tom Champoux |
| “Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you’re swinging.” | ~ | Duke Snider |
| “Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” | ~ | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| “Pessimism never won any battle.” | ~ | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| “There is no victory at bargain basement prices.” | ~ | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| “Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.” | ~ | E. Joseph Cossman |
| “Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.” | ~ | Earl Nightingale |
| “Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.” | ~ | Earl Nightingale |
| “We make our fortunes, and we call them fate.” | ~ | Earl of Beaconsfield |
| “Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.” | ~ | Eddie Rickenbacker |
| “Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.” | ~ | Edmund Spenser |
| “Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves.” | ~ | Edward Bulwer Lytton |
| “To find what you seek in the road of life, the est prover of all is that which states: ‘Leave no stone unturned.’” | ~ | Edward Bulwer Lytton |
| “My will shall shape the future Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man’s doing but my own I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny.” | ~ | Elaine Maxwell |
| “The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.” | ~ | Elbert Hubbard |
| “The greatest mistakes you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.” | ~ | Elbert Hubbard |
| “The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is the part of the penalty for greatness, and every man understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness.” | ~ | Elbert Hubbard |
| “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” | ~ | Eleanor Roosevelt |
| “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” | ~ | Eleanor Roosevelt |
| “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” | ~ | Eleanor Roosevelt |
| “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” | ~ | Eleanor Roosevelt |
| “Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.” | ~ | Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| “A weed is but an unloved flower.” | ~ | Ella Wheeler Wilcox |
| “One ship sails East, and another West, by the self-same winds that blow, tis the set of the sails and not the gales, That tells the way we go.” | ~ | Ella Wheeler Wilcox |
| “There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.” | ~ | Ella Wheeler Wilcox |
| “The first and greatest commandment is, don’t let them scare you.” | ~ | Elmer Davis |
| “The blowing winds are but our servants when we hoist a sail.” | ~ | Emerson |
| “We’d never know how high we are till we are called to rise; and then, if we are true to plan, our statures touch the sky.” | ~ | Emily Dickinson |
| “How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!” | ~ | Emily Dickinson |
| “Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.” | ~ | Epictetus |
| “Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.” | ~ | Epictetus |
| “Practice yourself in little things and thence proceed to greater.” | ~ | Epictetus |
| “There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.” | ~ | Epictetus |
| “The fear of becoming a ‘has-been’ keeps some people from becoming anything.” | ~ | Eric Hoffer |
| “The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.” | ~ | Eric Hoffer |
| “The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.” | ~ | Eric Hoffer |
| “The trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.” | ~ | Erica Jong |
| “Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.” | ~ | Erich Fromm |
| “If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.” | ~ | Erma Bombeck |
| “All serious daring starts from within.” | ~ | Eudora Wetly |
| “Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.” | ~ | Euripides |
| “The wisest men follow their own direction.” | ~ | Euripides |
| “Never give up and good luck will find you.” | ~ | Falcore, the luck dragon in “The Never Ending Story” |
| “I demolish my bridges behind me… then there is no choice but to move forward.” | ~ | Firdtjof Nansen |
| “A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.” | ~ | Francis Bacon |
| “In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.” | ~ | Francis Bacon |
| “It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire, and many things to fear.” | ~ | Francis Bacon |
| “There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.” | ~ | Francis Bacon |
| “In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.” | ~ | Francis Thompson |
| “I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and a devotion to the things you want to see happen.” | ~ | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| “Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.” | ~ | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| “It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.” | ~ | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” | ~ | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| “We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.” | ~ | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| “The quality of leadership, more than any other single factor, determines the success or failure of an organization.” | ~ | Fred Fiedler & Martin Chemers |
| “The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self; to render our consciousness its own light and its own mirror.” | ~ | Frederich Leopold von Hardenberg |
| “Hope is the dream of the waking man.” | ~ | French Proverb |
| “Justifying a fault doubles it.” | ~ | French Proverb |
| “To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.” | ~ | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.” | ~ | G. K. Chesterton |
| “In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.” | ~ | Galileo Galilei |
| “We don’t stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.” | ~ | George Bernard Shaw |
| “One’s first step in wisdom is to question everything – and one’s last is to come to terms with everything.” | ~ | George Christoph Lichtenberg |
| “Let us not say, ‘Every man is the architect of his own fortune’ but let us say, ‘Every man is the architect of his own character.’” | ~ | George Dana Boardman |
| “Sow an act, and you reap a habit; sow a habit, and you reap a character; sow a character, and you reap a destiny.” | ~ | George Dana Boardman |
| “It is never too late to e who you might have been.” | ~ | George Eliot |
| “Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.” | ~ | George F. Will |
| “Skill and confidence are an unconquered army..” | ~ | George Herbert |
| “Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.” | ~ | George Herman “Babe” Ruth |
| “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” | ~ | George Horace Lorimer |
| “People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.” | ~ | George Matthew Allen |
| “Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.” | ~ | George Patton |
| “The future is taking shape now in our own beliefs and in the courage of our leaders. Ideas and leadership — not natural or social ‘forces’ — are the prime movers in human affairs. “ | ~ | George Roche |
| “Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” | ~ | George S. Patton |
| “Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.” | ~ | George Santayana |
| “It is better to offer no excuses than a bad one.” | ~ | George Washington |
| “How far you go in life depends on your best being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of those.” | ~ | George Washington Carver |
| “Life is a rich strain of music,, suggesting a realm too fair to be.” | ~ | George William Curtis |
| “A man’s life is interesting primarily when he has failed – I well know. For it’s a sign that he tried to surpass himself.” | ~ | Georges Clemenceau |
| “We don’t live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.” | ~ | Gerald J. Simmons |
| “It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.” | ~ | Gertrude Stein |
| “A bold onset is half the battle.” | ~ | Giuseppe Garibaldi |
| “Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.” | ~ | Grace Hansen |
| “The secret of all great undertakings is hard work and self-reliance.” | ~ | Gustavus F. Swift |
| “No man can stand on top because he is put there.” | ~ | H. H. Vreeland |
| “For every problem, there is one solution, which is simple, neat, and wrong.” | ~ | H. L. Mencken |
| “Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.” | ~ | Harold Geneen |
| “Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.” | ~ | Harold Geneen |
| “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” | ~ | Harold R McAlindon or Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| “Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.” | ~ | Harry Emerson Fosdick |
| “It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.” | ~ | Havelock Ellis |
| “I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.” | ~ | Helen Hayes |
| “My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that’s nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.” | ~ | Helen Hayes |
| “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” | ~ | Helen Keller |
| “Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” | ~ | Helen Keller |
| “Once can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.” | ~ | Helen Keller |
| “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched; they must be felt with the heart.” | ~ | Helen Keller |
| “When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.” | ~ | Helen Keller |
| “It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.” | ~ | Henrik Ibsen |
| “Statistics are no substitute for judgment.” | ~ | Henry Clay |
| “Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should e. Now put the foundations under them.” | ~ | Henry David Thoreau |
| “Dreams are the touchstones of our character.” | ~ | Henry David Thoreau |
| “Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.” | ~ | Henry David Thoreau |
| “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” | ~ | Henry David Thoreau |
| “I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success.” | ~ | Henry David Thoreau |
| “None are so old as those who have cultivated enthusiasm.” | ~ | Henry David Thoreau |
| “Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.” | ~ | Henry David Thoreau |
| “The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought,, and attended to my answer.” | ~ | Henry David Thoreau |
| “You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself into one.” | ~ | Henry David Thoreau |
| “Don’t find fault, find a remedy!” | ~ | Henry Ford |
| “Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.” | ~ | Henry Ford |
| “Don’t find fault, find a remedy.” | ~ | Henry Ford |
| “Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.” | ~ | Henry Ford |
| “One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.” | ~ | Henry Ford |
| “Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.” | ~ | Henry Ford |
| “There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.” | ~ | Henry Ford |
| “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you are right.” | ~ | Henry Ford |
| “The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.” | ~ | Henry Kissinger |
| “The real leader has no need to lead – he is content to point the way.” | ~ | Henry Miller |
| “The real leader has no need to lead – he is content to point the way.” | ~ | Henry Miller |
| “In this world a man must either be an anvil or a hammer.” | ~ | Henry W. Longfellow |
| “In this world man must either be anvil or hammer.” | ~ | Henry W. Longfellow |
| “Live up to the best that is in you: Live noble lives, as you all may, in whatever condition you may find yourselves.” | ~ | Henry W. Longfellow |
| “Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.” | ~ | Henry W. Longfellow |
| “The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when broken.” | ~ | Henry W. Longfellow |
| “Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.” | ~ | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| “The heights by great men reached and kept, were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were tolling upward in the night.” | ~ | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| “He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.” | ~ | Henry Ward Beecher |
| “Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.” | ~ | Henry Ward Beecher |
| “The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.” | ~ | Henry Ward Beecher |
| “The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a ‘But’.” | ~ | Henry Ward Beecher |
| “You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.” | ~ | Heraclitus |
| “Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.” | ~ | Herbert Gasser |
| “Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.” | ~ | Herman Melville |
| “Circumspection in calamity; mercy in greatness; good speeches in assemblies; fortitude in adversity; these are the self-attained perfections of great souls.” | ~ | Hitopadesa |
| “Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.” | ~ | Horace |
| “Leadership in today’s world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.” | ~ | Hubert H. Humphrey |
| “Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.” | ~ | Hypocrites |
| “You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.” | ~ | Indira Gandhi |
| “Hope is the physician of each misery.” | ~ | Irish Proverb |
| “After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.” | ~ | Italian Proverb |
| “The world is round and the place which may seem like the end, may also be only the beginning.” | ~ | Ivy Baker Priest |
| “Reputation is for time; character is for eternity.” | ~ | J. B. Gough |
| “Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I’ll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I’ll give you a stock clerk.” | ~ | J. C. Penney |
| “You can’t pick cherries with your back to the tree.” | ~ | J. P. Morgan |
| “No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or ‘get rich’ in business by being a conformist.” | ~ | J. Paul Getty |
| “Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.” | ~ | J. Petit Senn |
| “It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.” | ~ | J. Petit Senn |
| “I don’t deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don’t deserve that either.” | ~ | Jack Benny |
| “The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.” | ~ | Jaco Bronowski |
| “Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.” | ~ | James A. Froude |
| “Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.” | ~ | James Baldwin |
| “A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.” | ~ | James Joyce |
| “Mistakes are the portals of discovery.” | ~ | James Joyce |
| “You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place.” | ~ | James Lane Allen |
| “To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose’s egg.” | ~ | James Thomas |
| “Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.” | ~ | Jamie Paolinetti |
| “Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.” | ~ | Japanese Proverb |
| “Life is like a game of cards. The had that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.” | ~ | Jawaharal Nehru |
| “Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.” | ~ | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| “No road is too long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry, and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it.” | ~ | Jean de La Bruyere |
| “Out of difficulties grow miracles.” | ~ | Jean de La Bruyere |
| “Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations.” | ~ | Jean Paul Richter |
| “A fair reputation is a plant, delicate in its nature, and by no means rapid in its growth. It will not shoot up in a night like the gourd of the prophet; but, like that gourd, it may perish in a night.” | ~ | Jeremy Taylor |
| “The best example of leadership, is leadership by example.” | ~ | Jerry McClain |
| “Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.” | ~ | Jesse Jackson |
| “If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” | ~ | Jim Rohn |
| “The waters wear the stones.” | ~ | Job 14:19 |
| “If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?” | ~ | Joe Namath |
| “Disappointments are the the soul what thunderstorms are to the air.” | ~ | Johann C. F. von Schiller |
| “Actions, looks, words, and steps form the alphabet by which you may spell character.” | ~ | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| “Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself, he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.” | ~ | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| “If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything.” | ~ | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| “Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.” | ~ | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| “It is not enough to take steps which may some day lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.” | ~ | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” | ~ | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| “Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.” | ~ | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| “Nothing is to e rated higher than the value of the day.” | ~ | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| “Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.” | ~ | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| “The important thing in life is to have great aim and to possess the aptitude and the perseverance to attain it.” | ~ | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| “We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.” | ~ | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| “We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.” | ~ | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| “Who is happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even though ’twere his own.” | ~ | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| “He that is down needs fear no fall.” | ~ | John Bunyan |
| “Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life.” | ~ | John C. Geikie |
| “The depth of your mythology is the extent of your effectiveness.” | ~ | John C. Maxwell |
| “Go back a little to leap further.” | ~ | John Clarke |
| “If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.” | ~ | John D. Rockefeller |
| “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. | ~ | John F. Kennedy |
| “Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.” | ~ | John F. Kennedy |
| “If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.” | ~ | John F. Kennedy |
| “He who would do some great thing in his short life, must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of hi forces as to the idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity.” | ~ | John Foster |
| “Remember that it is far better to follow well than to lead indifferently.” | ~ | John G. Vance |
| “A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.” | ~ | John J. Pershing |
| “I was never afraid of failure, for I would sooner fail than not be among the best.” | ~ | John Keats |
| “All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common. It was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This and not much else is the essence of leadership.” | ~ | John Kenneth |
| “The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.” | ~ | John Maxwell |
| “The power of imagination makes us infinite.” | ~ | John Muir |
| “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” | ~ | John Quincy Adams |
| “A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.” | ~ | John Ruskin |
| “Processes don’t do work, people do.” | ~ | John Seely Brown |
| “Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.” | ~ | John Tillotson |
| “If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?” | ~ | John Wooden |
| “The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.” | ~ | Johnette Napolitano |
| “The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.” | ~ | Jonas Salk |
| “Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.” | ~ | Jonathan Kozol |
| “Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.” | ~ | Joseph Joubert |
| “The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.” | ~ | Joseph Joubert |
| “The essential thing is not knowledge, but character.” | ~ | Joseph Le Conte |
| “The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: ‘Do not do what your are doing now.’” | ~ | Joseph Ray |
| “Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.” | ~ | Josh Billings |
| “Perseverance is king.” | ~ | Josh Billings |
| “There’s no half-singing in the shower, you’re either a rock star or an opera diva.” | ~ | Josh Groban |
| “As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.” | ~ | Jules Renard |
| “The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.” | ~ | Kahlil Gibran |
| “You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.” | ~ | Kahlil Gibran |
| “Unrest of spirit is a mark of life; one problem after another presents itself and in the solving of them we can find our greatest pleasure.” | ~ | Kal Menninger |
| “Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.” | ~ | Karen Kaiser Clark |
| “If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.” | ~ | Katharine Hepurn |
| “Leadership is the best desire and ability to inspire individual achievement, while a leader is just a guy at the top of the heap worried about his own.” | ~ | Keith Mullen |
| “Being an optimist after you’ve got everything you want doesn’t count.” | ~ | Kim Hubbard |
| “It isn’t for you to love money – it’s also necessary that money should love you.” | ~ | Kin Hubbard |
| “Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.” | ~ | Knute Rockne |
| “Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.” | ~ | La Bruyere |
| “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.” | ~ | Lanston Hughes |
| “When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.” | ~ | Lao Tse |
| “A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own.” | ~ | Latin Proverb |
| “It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself.” | ~ | Latin Proverb |
| “They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.” | ~ | Latin Proverb |
| “Without sweat and toll no work is made perfect” | ~ | Latin Proverb |
| “Speak when you are angry, and you will make the best speech you’ll ever regret.” | ~ | Laurence J. Peter |
| “Excellence is not an accomplishment. It is a spirit, a never-ending process.” | ~ | Lawrence M. Miller |
| “The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business – or almost anywhere else for that matter.” | ~ | Lee Iacocca |
| “The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.” | ~ | Lee Iacocca |
| “You’ve go to say, ‘I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it.’ It’s called perseverance.” | ~ | Lee Iacocca |
| “Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.” | ~ | Leo Buscaglia |
| “Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.” | ~ | Leo Tolstoy |
| “Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.” | ~ | Leon J. Suenes |
| “Art is never finished, only abandoned.” | ~ | Leonardo da Vinci |
| “Learning never exhausts the mind.” | ~ | Leonardo da Vinci |
| “Good plans shape good decisions. That’s why good planning helps make elusive dreams come true.” | ~ | Lester R Bittel |
| “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” | ~ | Lewis Carroll |
| “Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.” | ~ | Lewis H. Lapham |
| “Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.” | ~ | Lily Tomlin |
| “Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists of the elimination of nonessential.” | ~ | Lin Yutang |
| “It is not a question of how well each process works, the question is how well they all work together.” | ~ | Lloyd Dobens |
| “Those who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing and succeed.” | ~ | Lloyd Jones |
| “There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second. | ~ | Logan Pearsall Smith |
| “And when we think we lead, we are most led.” | ~ | Lord Byron |
| “Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word.” | ~ | Lord Chesterfield |
| “Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.” | ~ | Louis L’Amour |
| “Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.” | ~ | Louis Pasteur |
| “Constant dripping hollows out a stone.” | ~ | Lucretius |
| “The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence buy by oft falling.” | ~ | Luretius |
| “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” | ~ | Mahatma Ghandi |
| “There is more to life than increasing its speed.” | ~ | Mahatma Ghandi |
| “We must become the change we want to see.” | ~ | Mahatma Ghandi |
| “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” | ~ | Mahatma Ghandi |
| “Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” | ~ | Malcolm S. Forbes |
| “If you never budge, don’t expect a push.” | ~ | Malcolm S. Forbes |
| “When what we are is what we want to be, that’s happiness.” | ~ | Malcolm S. Forbes |
| “There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.” | ~ | Marcel Proust |
| “Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.” | ~ | Marcia Wieder |
| “Do not think that what is hard for thee to master is impossible for man; but if a thing is possible and proper to man, deem it attainable by thee.” | ~ | Marcus Aurelius |
| “Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.” | ~ | Marcus Aurelius |
| “Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.” | ~ | Marcus Aurelius |
| “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” | ~ | Marcus Aurelius |
| “Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.” | ~ | Marcus T. Cicero |
| “When nothing is sure, everything is possible.” | ~ | Margaret Drabble |
| “I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.” | ~ | Margaret Mead |
| “In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions. “ | ~ | Margaret Wheatly |
| “Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those would be affected by it.” | ~ | Marian Anderson |
| “Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.” | ~ | Marie Curie |
| “Conquer, but don’t triumph.” | ~ | Marie Ebner von Eschenbach |
| “We know not where our dreams will take us, but we can probably see quite clearly where we’ll go without them.” | ~ | Marilyn Grey |
| “Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.” | ~ | Mark Twain |
| “Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read.” | ~ | Mark Twain |
| “Make it a point to do something every day that you don’t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.” | ~ | Mark Twain |
| “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option” | ~ | Mark Twain |
| “Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.” | ~ | Mark Twain |
| “I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.” | ~ | Martha Washington |
| “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right….” | ~ | Martin Luther |
| “The time is always right to do what is right.” | ~ | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” | ~ | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| “It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn’t.” | ~ | Martin Van Buren |
| “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 |
| “Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the minds as a steady purpose – a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.” | ~ | Mary Shelley |
| “For hope is but the dream of those that wake.” | ~ | Matthew Prior |
| “A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like this: “Leaders don’t inflict pain. They bear pain.” | ~ | Max Depree |
| “The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you.” | ~ | Max Depree |
| “To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world – that I am able to change it in positive ways.” | ~ | Maxine Hong Kingston |
| “If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.” | ~ | Maya Angelou |
| “To fly, we have to have resistance.” | ~ | Maya Lin |
| “Slumber not in the tents of your fathers! The world is advancing. Advance with it!” | ~ | Mazzini |
| “By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.” | ~ | Menander |
| “I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” | ~ | Michael Jordan |
| “To succeed, we must first believe we can.” | ~ | Michael Korda |
| “The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.” | ~ | Michel de Montaigne |
| “You are never a loser until you quit trying.” | ~ | Mike Ditka |
| “Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades.” | ~ | Mme. Du Deffand |
| “If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one.” | ~ | Mother Teresa |
| “It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.” | ~ | Mother Teresa |
| “Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.” | ~ | Mother Teresa |
| “Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” | ~ | Mother Teresa |
| “Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.” | ~ | Mother Teresa |
| “We can do no great things, only small things with great love.” | ~ | Mother Teresa |
| “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” | ~ | Mother Theresa |
| “Desire is the starting point of all achievement…the first step toward all riches.” | ~ | Napolean Hill |
| “Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate accomplishments.” | ~ | Napolean Hill |
| “Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.” | ~ | Napolean Hill |
| “Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.” | ~ | Napolean Hill |
| “The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.” | ~ | Napolean Hill |
| “Thomas Edison dreamed of a lamp that could be operated by electricity, began where he stood to put his dream into action, and despite more than ten thousand failures, he stood by that dream until he made it a physical reality. Practical dreamers do not quit.” | ~ | Napolean Hill |
| “What the mind of a man can conceive and believe it can achieve.” | ~ | Napolean Hill |
| “A leader is a dealer in hope.” | ~ | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| “He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.” | ~ | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| “Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.” | ~ | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| “Victory belongs to the most persevering.” | ~ | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| “When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.” | ~ | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| “That which does not kill you makes you stronger.” | ~ | Neitzsche |
| “Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.” | ~ | Nelson A. Rockefeller |
| “Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.” | ~ | Newell D. Hillis |
| “You get so wrapped up in your problems, you can’t see the opportunities.” | ~ | Nora |
| “Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.” | ~ | Norman Vincent Peale |
| “In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.” | ~ | Norman Vincent Peale |
| “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” | ~ | Og Mandino |
| “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” | ~ | Og Mandino |
| “Our greatest glory consists not in never falling,, but in rising every time we fall.” | ~ | Oliver Goldsmith |
| “People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.” | ~ | Oliver Goldsmith |
| “Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it – but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor.” | ~ | Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| “If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.” | ~ | Orville Wright |
| “Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.” | ~ | Oscar Wilde |
| “Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.” | ~ | Oscar Wilde |
| “Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, choose both.” | ~ | Oscar Wilde |
| “Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the results.” | ~ | Oscar Wilde |
| “A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.” | ~ | Ovid |
| “I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.” | ~ | Ovid |
| “Let your hook always be cast; in the pond where you least expect it, there will be a fish.” | ~ | Ovid |
| “We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.” | ~ | Ovid |
| “My mother said to me, “If you become a soldier, you’ll e a general; if you become a monk, you’ll end up as the Pope.” Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. | ~ | Pablo Picasso |
| “Our life’s a stage, a comedy: either learn to play and take it lightly, or bear its troubles patiently.” | ~ | Palladas |
| “I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” | ~ | Patrick Henry |
| “The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.” | ~ | Paul Valery |
| “If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.” | ~ | Pearl S. Buck |
| “The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.” | ~ | Pearl S. Buck |
| “The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know to do something well is to enjoy it.” | ~ | Pearl S. Buck |
| “The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible – and achieve it, generation after generation.” | ~ | Pearl S. Buck |
| “Life, like a dome of many colored glass, stains the white radiance of eternity.” | ~ | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| “Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future.” | ~ | Peter Drucker |
| “Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.” | ~ | Peter Drucker |
| “Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.” | ~ | Peter Drucker |
| “Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their jobs done.” | ~ | Peter Drucker |
| “The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.” | ~ | Peter Drucker |
| “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” | ~ | Peter Drucker |
| “Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement..” | ~ | Peter Drucker |
| “Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes… but no plans.” | ~ | Peter Drucker |
| “Probably my best quality as a coach is that I ask a lot of challenging questions and let the person come up with the answer. “ | ~ | Phil Dixon |
| “No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.” | ~ | Philip Armour |
| “Quality has to be caused, not controlled.” | ~ | Philip Crosby |
| “The mind determines what is possible. The soul surpasses it.” | ~ | Pilar Coolinta |
| “The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.” | ~ | Plutarch |
| “A good name will shine forever.” | ~ | Proverb |
| “He who hesitates is lost.” | ~ | Proverb |
| “Never say die.” | ~ | Proverb |
| “Nothing succeeds like success.” | ~ | Proverb |
| “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” | ~ | Proverbs 29:18 |
| “Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.” | ~ | Publilius Syrus |
| “No man is happy who does not think himself so.” | ~ | Publilius Syrus |
| “The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.” | ~ | Publilius Syrus |
| “It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.” | ~ | Publius Syrus |
| “Fortune favors the brave.” | ~ | Publius Terence |
| “You can never learn less; you can only learn more.” | ~ | R. Buckminster Fuller |
| “I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers” | ~ | Ralph Nader |
| “A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet not the details but the quality.” | ~ | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| “Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.” | ~ | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| “Every artist was first an amateur” | ~ | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| “Half a man’s wisdom goes with his courage.” | ~ | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| “It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‘Always do what you are afraid to do.’” | ~ | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| “Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.” | ~ | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| “Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.” | ~ | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| “No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.” | ~ | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” | ~ | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” | ~ | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” | ~ | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| “Self-trust is the first secret of success.” | ~ | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| “Shallow men believe in luck, strong men believe in cause and effort.” | ~ | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| “The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.” | ~ | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| “Trust the instinct to the end though you can render no reason.” | ~ | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| “We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.“ | ~ | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| “What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what I your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great person is one who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” | ~ | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| “What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.” | ~ | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” | ~ | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| “We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.” | ~ | Randy Pausch |
| “The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.” | ~ | Ray Kroc |
| “Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.” | ~ | Rebecca West |
| “There is no contest between the company that buys the grudging compliance of its work force and the company that enjoys the enterprising participation of its employees “ | ~ | Ricardo Sempler |
| “Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.” | ~ | Richard Bach |
| “Never say more than is necessary.” | ~ | Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
| “The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.” | ~ | Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
| “The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.” | ~ | Richard Cech |
| “If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed you can say unto this mountain, be removed to yonder place and it should be.” | ~ | Robert Allen |
| “I light my candle from their torches.” | ~ | Robert Burton |
| “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” | ~ | Robert Collier |
| “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” | ~ | Robert F. Kennedy |
| “You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.” | ~ | Robert F. Kennedy |
| “The best way out is always through.” | ~ | Robert Frost |
| “Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.” | ~ | Robert Kiyosaki |
| “The poor, the unsuccessful, the unhappy, the unhealthy are the ones who use the word tomorrow the most” | ~ | Robert Kiyosaki |
| “Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.” | ~ | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| “Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead.” | ~ | Ross Perot |
| “Much we learn only to forget it again; to stand by the goal, we must traverse all the way to it.” | ~ | Ruckert |
| “To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.” | ~ | Russell L. Ackoff |
| “What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.” | ~ | Saint Augustine |
| “Every man is the architect of his own fortune” | ~ | Sallust |
| “Celebrate your success and find humor in your failures. Don’t take yourself so seriously. Loosen up and everyone around you will loosen up. Have fun and always show enthusiasm. When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.” | ~ | Sam Walton |
| “High expectations are the key to everything.” | ~ | Sam Walton |
| “Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.” | ~ | Sam Walton |
| “When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people very happy.” | ~ | Samuel Goldwyn |
| “Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.” | ~ | Samuel Johnson |
| “It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.” | ~ | Samuel Smiles |
| “We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do.” | ~ | Samuel Smiles |
| “Silence does not always mark wisdom.” | ~ | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| “Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.” | ~ | Sandra Carey |
| “There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are failing.” | ~ | Sarah J. Hale |
| “It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.” | ~ | Seneca |
| “Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.” | ~ | Seneca |
| “The great blessing of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.” | ~ | Seneca |
| “To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.” | ~ | Shakespeare |
| “Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.” | ~ | Shaquille O’Neal |
| “Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable” | ~ | Sidney J. Harris |
| “If you have great talents, industry will improve them. If moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiencies. Nothing is denied to well-directed labor, nothing is ever to be attained without it.” | ~ | Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| “I hold a doctrine, to which I owe not much, indeed, but all the little I ever had, namely, that with ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.” | ~ | Sir T. F. Buxton |
| “Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.” | ~ | Sir Thomas Brown |
| “Never neglect an opportunity for improvement.” | ~ | Sir William Jones |
| “Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.” | ~ | Socrates |
| “The unexamined life is not worth living.” | ~ | Socrates |
| “The way to gain a good reputation is to endear to be what you desire to appear.” | ~ | Socrates |
| “He who has learned to obey will know how to command.” | ~ | Solon |
| “In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend.” | ~ | Solon |
| “What you cannot enforce / Do not command.” | ~ | Sophocles |
| “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” | ~ | Soren Kierkegaard |
| “Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.” | ~ | Soren Kierkegaard |
| “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” | ~ | Soren Kierkegaard |
| “Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.” | ~ | Spanish Proverb |
| “If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.” | ~ | St. Clement of Alexandra |
| “You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.” | ~ | Stanislaw J. Lec |
| “The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.” | ~ | Sven Goran Eriksson |
| “All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible” | ~ | T.E. Lawrence |
| “So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains and we never even know we have the key.” | ~ | The Eagles |
| “Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.” | ~ | Theodore Roosevelt |
| “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” | ~ | Theodore Roosevelt |
| “It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spend himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement , and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” | ~ | Theodore Roosevelt |
| “Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.” | ~ | Theodore Roosevelt |
| “People ask the difference between a leader and a boss… The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.” | ~ | Theodore Roosevelt |
| “The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.” | ~ | Theodore Roosevelt |
| “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.” | ~ | Thomas A. Edison |
| “Hell, there are no rules here – We’re trying to accomplish something.” | ~ | Thomas A. Edison |
| “Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.” | ~ | Thomas A. Edison |
| “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” | ~ | Thomas A. Edison |
| “Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” | ~ | Thomas A. Edison |
| “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” | ~ | Thomas A. Edison |
| “There is time for everything.” | ~ | Thomas A. Edison |
| “Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.” | ~ | Thomas A. Edison |
| “They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.” | ~ | Thomas Bailey Aldrich |
| “A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.” | ~ | Thomas Carlyle |
| “Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.” | ~ | Thomas Carlyle |
| “Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.” | ~ | Thomas Carlyle |
| “Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so..” | ~ | Thomas Carlyle |
| “The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.” | ~ | Thomas Carlyle |
| “The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious or none.” | ~ | Thomas Carlyle |
| “The history of the world is but the biography of great men.” | ~ | Thomas Carlyle |
| “If we are ever to enjoy life, now is the time, not tomorrow or next year. Today should always be our most wonderful day.” | ~ | Thomas Dreier |
| “Govern thy life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other.” | ~ | Thomas Fuller |
| “Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, – as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.” | ~ | Thomas Fuller |
| “Half of the failures in life come from pulling one’s horse when he is leaping.” | ~ | Thomas Hood |
| “It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.” | ~ | Thomas Huxley |
| “A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.” | ~ | Thomas Jefferson |
| “In matters of style, swim with the current; In matters of principle, stand like a rock. “ | ~ | Thomas Jefferson |
| “Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. “ | ~ | Thomas Jefferson |
| “If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?” | ~ | Thomas Lovell Beddoes |
| “Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.’ | ~ | Thomas Paine |
| “What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.” | ~ | Thomas Sprat |
| “The greatest men sometimes overshoot themselves, but then their very mistakes are so many lessons of instruction.” | ~ | Tom Browne |
| “If you only do what you know you can do – you never do very much.” | ~ | Tom Krause |
| “Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.” | ~ | Unknown |
| “Remember your yesterdays, dream your tomorrows, live your todays!” | ~ | Unknown |
| “Two men looked out from the prison bars. One saw mud, the other saw stars” | ~ | Unknown |
| “A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not.” | ~ | Unknown |
| “Failure teaches success.” | ~ | Unknown |
| “In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.” | ~ | Unknown |
| “To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.” | ~ | Unknown |
| “You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind.” | ~ | Unknown |
| “Success is somebody else’s failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty.” | ~ | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| “work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.” | ~ | Vaclav Havel |
| “Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.” | ~ | Vanessa Redgrave |
| “Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” | ~ | Victor Hugo |
| “Press on! A better fate awaits thee.” | ~ | Victor Hugo |
| “There is nothing like a dream to create the future.” | ~ | Victor Hugo |
| “Life can be pulled by goals just a surely as it can be pushed by drives.” | ~ | Viktor Frankl |
| “Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you’re willing to pay the price.” | ~ | Vince Lombardi |
| “If you can’t accept losing, you can’t win.” | ~ | Vince Lombardi |
| “Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” | ~ | Vince Lombardi |
| “It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner.” | ~ | Vince Lombardi |
| “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” | ~ | Vince Lombardi |
| “The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.” | ~ | Vince Lombardi |
| “We would accomplish many more things if we did not think them as impossible.” | ~ | Vince Lombardi |
| “Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.” | ~ | Vince Lombardi |
| “Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.” | ~ | Vince Lombardi |
| “The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.” | ~ | Vincent Lombardi |
| “What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” | ~ | Vincent van Gogh |
| “They can because they think they can.” | ~ | Virgil |
| “Every man, as to character, is the creature of the age in which he lives. Very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of their times.” | ~ | Voltaire |
| “Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.” | ~ | Voltaire |
| “The secret of being boring is to say everything.” | ~ | Voltaire |
| “Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.” | ~ | Voltaire |
| “All of our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” | ~ | Walt Disney |
| “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. “ | ~ | Walt Disney |
| “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” | ~ | Walt Disney |
| “Character and personal force are the only investments that are worth anything.” | ~ | Walt Whitman |
| “I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got.” | ~ | Walter Cronkite |
| “The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on… The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without genius, can deal with successfully. | ~ | Walter Lippman |
| “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” | ~ | Walter Winchell |
| “A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless.. Someone’s got to make a wake up call.” | ~ | Warren Bennis |
| “Managers are people who do things right, while leaders are people who do the right thing.” | ~ | Warren Bennis |
| “Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.” | ~ | Washington Irving |
| “It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.” | ~ | Washington Irving |
| “Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.” | ~ | Washington Irving |
| “It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.” | ~ | Washington Irving |
| “What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.” | ~ | Wendell Phillips |
| “There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.” | ~ | Willa Cather |
| “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” | ~ | William B. Sprague |
| “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” | ~ | William Edward Hickson |
| “Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.” | ~ | William Ellery Channing |
| “The end of wisdom is to dream high enough not to lose the dream in the seeking of it.” | ~ | William Faulkner |
| “One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.” | ~ | William Feather |
| “The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.” | ~ | William James |
| “Destiny is no matter of chance. It I a matter of choice. It is not a thing to e waited for, it is a thing to e achieved.” | ~ | William Jennings Bryan |
| “The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.” | ~ | William Lloyd Garrison |
| “This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.” | ~ | William Lyon Phelps |
| “Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.” | ~ | William M. Winans |
| “Six essential qualities that are the key to success: sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.” | ~ | William Menninger |
| “Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.” | ~ | William S. Burroughs |
| “Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.” | ~ | William Saroyan |
| “Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.” | ~ | William Shakespeare |
| “To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.” | ~ | William Shakespeare |
| “It isn’t hard to be good from time to time in sports. What’s tough is being good every day.” | ~ | Willie Mays |
| “We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.” | ~ | Winston Churchill |
| “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” | ~ | Winston Churchill |
| “Give us the tools and we will finish the job.” | ~ | Winston Churchill |
| “If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.” | ~ | Winston Churchill |
| “Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.” | ~ | Winston Churchill |
| “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” | ~ | Winston Churchill |
| “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” | ~ | Winston Churchill |
| “We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.” | ~ | Winston Churchill |
| “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” | ~ | Winston Churchill |
| “Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.” | ~ | Woodrow Wilson |
| “If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” | ~ | Yogi Berra |
| “You cannot make it as a wandering generality.. You must become a meaningful specific.” | ~ | Zig Ziglar |
