- “Some people develop a wish bone where their back bone should be.” – Unknown
- “Some people not only expect opportunity to knock, they expect it to beat down the door.” – Unknown
- “Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.” – Ambrose Bierce
- “Start off every day with a smile and get it over with.” – W. C. Fields
- “Success comes in cans, failure in can’ts.” – Unknown
- “Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.” – Earl Nightingale
- “The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.” – Arthur C. Clarke
- “The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office.” – Robert Frost
- “The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.” – Al Neuharth
- “The difference between an optimist and a pessimist is that an optimist thinks this is the best possible world. A pessimist fears that this is true.” – Unknown
- “We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.” – Charles R. Swindoll
- “If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.” – Jesse Jackson
- “The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
- “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” – Michelangelo
- “As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.” – Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.” – Peter F. Drucker
- “Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing.” – Albert Schweitzer
- “You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.” – William Boetcker
- “A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.”
- “Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.”
- “Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.”
- “In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.”
- “It’s a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.”
- “Live out of your imagination, not your history.”
- “Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”
- “Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.”
- “Public behavior is merely private character writ large.”
- “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”
- “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.”
- “There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.”
- “We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.”
- “We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.”
- “We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.”
- “I can accept failure, but I can’t accept not trying.”
- “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 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.”
- “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.”
- “Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.”
- “I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot… when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.”
- “Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.”
- “I’ve failed over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”
- “I don’t do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.”
- “I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.”
- “You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”
- “Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”
- “I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.”
- “Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.”
- “A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
- “We think too much and feel too little.”
- “Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.”
- “Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”
- “The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.”
- “All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.”
- “Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles.”
- “To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!”
- “That´s what all we are. Amateurs. We don´t live long enough to be anything else.”
- “In the end, everything is a gag.”
- “Always do what you are afraid to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.” – George S. Patton
- “If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.” – St. Clement of Alexandra
- “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
- “Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.” – Thornton Wilder
- “The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke
- “Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.” – Johann Gottfried Von Herder
- “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle
- “Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.” – Voltaire
- “Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.” – Unknown
- “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost
- “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” – William B. Sprague
- “Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.” – Samuel Johnson
- “Fortune favors the brave.” – Publius Terence
- “Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius
- “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” – Albert Einstein
- “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.” – Winston Churchill
- “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “For hope is but the dream of those that wake.” – Matthew Prior
- “Constant dripping hollows out a stone.” – Lucretius
- “Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose – a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.” – Mary Shelley