Alpine Link's Favorite Quotes
André Maurois
To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.
John Wooden
A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player.
Blaise Pascal
People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.
George MacDonald
To have what we want is riches, but to be able to do without is power.
Warren Bennis
Managers are people who do things right, and leaders are people who do the right thing.
Henry Adams
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
One’s ridiculousness increases in proportion as one denies it.
John Wooden
Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.
J.K. Rowling
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all — in which case, you fail by default.
Thomas J. Watson
A man is known by the company he keeps. A company is known by the men it keeps.
Harold D. Stolovitch and Erica J. Keeps
For training and learning purposes, it’s important to create meaningful chunks that condense several pieces of information into one. This facilitates perception, learning and retention. By creating a single chunk, we reduce the short-term memory load.
Elbert Hubbard
If you would escape moral and physical assassination, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing — court obscurity, for only in oblivion does safety lie.
Henry Ford
One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.
Henry Kaiser
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
William Butler Yeats
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Abraham Lincoln
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
George Washington Burnap
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Dionne Warwick
We are all here to be a service to those who can’t be a service to themselves. We can give people hope and more reasons for being human.
Leo Tolstoy
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
William James
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Conrad Hilton
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.
Aldous Huxley
Every gain made by individuals or societies is almost instantly taken for granted.
Walt Disney
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Auguste Rodin
Patience is also a form of action.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
Confucius
Do not be concerned that no one recognizes your merits; be concerned that you may not recognize others’.
Abigail Adams
It is not in the still calm of life or the repose of a pacific station that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties.
Penelope Cruz
You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else’s point of view.
Nido Qubein
Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
By leadership we mean the art of getting someone else to do something that you want done because he wants to do it.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Warren Bennis
The truth is, we’re products of everything – genes, environment, family, friends, trade winds, earthquakes, sunspots, schools, accidents, serendipity, anything you can think of, and more. What distinguishes the leader from everyone else is that he or she takes all of that and creates a new, unique self.
Usher Raymond IV
Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you’re on the journey … but you’ve got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.
Publilius Syrus
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Nikos Kazantzakis
True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.
Alex Marwood
Most people have to get to a point where they don’t have a choice before they’ll change something.
Sophocles
One must learn by doing the thing; though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.
Henri Matisse
Don’t wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.
Pablo Picasso
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Rosa Parks
I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your reactions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Tina Fey
Start with a yes and see where that takes you.
Mark Zuckerberg
The only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
Joseph Addison
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Carl Sandburg
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Seneca
Valor withers without adversity.
Abraham Lincoln
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
Ken Blanchard
People with humility don’t think less of themselves; they just think of themselves less.
Winston Churchill
To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.
Harold Ross
If you can’t be funny, be interesting.
C.S. Lewis
Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
Francis Bacon
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Michael LeBoeuf
A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.
M. Scott Peck
Our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.
Randy Pausch
The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough.
Peter Senge
People don’t resist change. They resist being changed.
Thomas Sprat
What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.
Walter Scott
Too much rest is rust.
Francis Bacon
If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.
Richard Bach
It’s like, at the end, there’s this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid?
Joseph Joubert
The goal is not always meant to be reached, but to serve as a mark for our aim.
Josh Billings
Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite.
Benjamin Disraeli
There is no education like adversity.
Napoleon Hill
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
Stevie Wonder
We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
Henry Ford
If you think you can, you’re right. If you think you can’t, you’re right.
Maya Angelou
We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.
Leo Buscaglia
It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
Emile Chartier
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it’s the only one you have.
Soren Kierkegaard
Do it or do not do it — you will regret both.
William Hazlitt
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
Alvin Toffler
The illiterate of the future are not those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Thomas Pynchon
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers.
Edith Wharton
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Roger Bannister
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
Ferdinand Foch
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Anonymous
There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it’s easy
George Bernard Shaw
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
Theodore Rubin
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
Winston Churchill
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body, calling attention to an unhealthy state of things.
Desiderius Erasmus
Fortune favors the audacious.
Mahatma Gandhi
Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principle.
Karl Popper
We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.
Colleen Barrett
Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.
Stephen Covey
Selfless service has always been one of the most powerful methods of influence.
Paul Marsden
Business is all about solving people’s problems — at a profit.
Bruce Lee
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.
Marilyn Ferguson
It’s not so much that we’re afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it’s that place in between that we fear …. It’s like being between trapezes. It’s Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There’s nothing to hold on to.
Norman Vincent Peale
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Desmond Tutu
Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
Shannon Alder
The lesson will always repeat itself, unless you see yourself as the problem — not others.
Albert Einstein
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
John Ruskin
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it.
Aristotle
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Malcolm De Chazal
The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
Thomas Edison
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
Albert Einstein
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: It is character.
Thomas Edison
Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Robert Hughes
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
Zig Ziglar
You are who you are and what you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change who you are and what you are by changing what goes into your mind.
George Woodberry
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
Vince Lombardi
If you are not fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Mark Twain
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.
Saadi
That sorrow which is the harbinger of joy is preferable to the joy which is followed by sorrow.
J.K. Rowling
We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.
Neale Donald Walsch
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
Margaret Fuller
Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.
Osho
The moment you accept yourself, you become beautiful.
John Locke
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Howard Schultz
Victory is much more meaningful when it comes not just from one person, but from the joint achievements of many.
Tim Fargo
Mistakes should be examined, learned from, and discarded; not dwelled upon and stored.
Rex Stout
Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled.
W. Clement Stone
I think there is something more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren’t enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
John Henry Newman
Nothing would be done at all, if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.
Michael Jordan
I can accept failure; everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.
Benjamin Disraeli
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.
Murasaki Shikibu
No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly … and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.
Frederick Douglass
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
Loretta Lynn
You’ve got to continue to grow, or you’re just like last night’s cornbread — stale and dry.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Yogi Berra
You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there.
Robert Quillen
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument is an exchange of ignorance.
Carl Rogers
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
Henry David Thoreau
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
Laozi
Care about people’s approval and you will be their prisoner.
Niels Bohr
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
Adlai Stevenson II
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
Calvin Coolidge
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
William James
Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
Harry S. Truman
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves. … Self-discipline with all of them came first.
Jeanette Winterson
It is a true saying, that what you fear you find.
Washington Irving
One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
Lewis Timberlake
Only 10% of people actually succeed at what they set out to accomplish. Another 10% accept defeat and try to resolve their feelings of anger and desperation by turning to drugs, alcohol and other obsessions. Finally, 80% of the population simply endures their frustration and blame their lack of success on circumstances.
Louis L’Amour
Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.
Lygia Fagundes Telles
We need to do things without expecting benefits in return.
Calvin Coolidge
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
Lao Tzu
He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.
Arnold Bennett
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
Haruki Murakami
When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.
Benjamin Franklin
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Andrew Carnegie
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.
Danny Kaye
Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.
Mark Twain
There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.
Earl Nightingale
We become what we think about.
Helen Keller
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Mahatma Gandhi
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
Steve Jobs
I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the unsuccessful ones is pure perseverance. It is so hard.
Virginia Satir
I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen, heard, understood, and touched by them. The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person.
Tom Wilson
Many of us are more capable than some of us, but none of us is as capable as all of us.
H.L. Mencken
There is always an easy solution to every human problem–neat, plausible, and wrong.
Calvin Coolidge
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Melinda Gates
If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
Alexander Graham Bell
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
Robert Frost
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Fred Barton
You are surrounded by hundreds of people more timid than you are.
Warren Bennis
The crucible is an essential element in the process of becoming a leader. No matter how cruel the testing, they become more optimistic and more open to experience.
German Proverb
What is the use of running when we are not on the right road?
Denis Waitley
Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.
P.D. James
The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
Horace Mann
A teacher who is attempting to teach, without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn, is hammering on a cold iron.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Your task is not to foresee the future, but to enable it.
Washington Irving
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Aesop
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
John Wooden
Manage yourself, so others won’t have to.
Robin Sharma
What you befriend, you’ll transcend.
Truman Capote
Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
Aldous Huxleyt
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Auguste Rodin
Patience is also a form of action.
James Cameron
Don’t put limitations on yourself. Other people will do that for you.
E. M. Forster
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Joe Frazier
Champions aren’t made in the ring, they are merely recognized there.
Marilyn Ferguson
Ultimately, we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists, who are dedicated to justice, peace, and brotherhood. The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific, and religious freedom have always been nonconformists. In any cause that concerns the progress of mankind, put your faith in the nonconformist!
George Bernard Shaw
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
Audre Lorde
When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
John Maxwell
It’s easy to have faith in people who have already proved themselves. It’s much tougher to believe in people before they have proved themselves. But that is the key to motivating people to reach their potential.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
Adam Lindsay Gordon
Life is mostly froth and bubble, / Two things stand like stone, / Kindness in another’s trouble, / Courage in your own.
Will Rogers
You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.
E.E. Cummings
To be nobody but myself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
C.S. Lewis
You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.
Marcus Garvey
With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz
There are undeniably bad bosses, toxic work environments, difficult relationships and real life crises. Nonetheless, we have far more control over our energy than we ordinarily realize. The number of hours in a day is fixed, but the quantity and quality of energy available to us is not. It is our most precious resource.
Alexander Pope
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying … that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
Florence Welch
If you do something with your whole heart and it’s a mistake, you can live with that.
Aldous Huxley
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Bobby Unser
In time, the people with desire will always rise to the top.
Benjamin Disraeli
We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.
Anais Nin
The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others.
Irish Proverb
You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Louis Nizer
A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.
Harold Geneen
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
Earl Nightingale
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.
Leo Tolstoy
The most important person is the one you are with in this moment.
William James
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
Ann Patchett
The question is whether or not you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never arrived.
Nelson Mandela
Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do.
Moliere
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
Sandra Day O’Connor
We don’t accomplish anything in this world alone … and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one’s life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something.
Michel de Montaigne
There is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others.
Muriel Rukeyser
The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
George Matthew Adams
There is no such thing as a ‘self-made’ man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts.
Paulo Coelho
The world is changed by your example, not your opinion.
Laozi
Care about people’s approval and you will be their prisoner.
Steven R. Covey
If you aren’t feeling pain, there is rarely enough motivation or humility to change.
Abraham Cowley
Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise, as praises from the men, whom all men praise.
Eddie Rickenbacker
There can be no courage unless you’re scared.
Roger Williams
The greatest crime in the world is not developing your potential. When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but the world.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
Lucretius
For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.
Don Shula
I don’t know any other way to lead but by example.
Peter F. Drucker
While the leader of the past knew how to tell, the leader of the future will know how to ask.
Auguste Rodin
Patience is also a form of action.
Willie Mays
What you are thinking, what shape your mind is in, is what makes the biggest difference of all.
Bob Black
You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you’ll end up boring, stupid, and monotonous.
Paul Harvey
You can tell you’re on the road to success; it’s uphill all the way.
Nelson Mandela
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Deborah Day
A positive attitude from you tends to produce a positive attitude toward you.
Walter Elliott
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
Colleen Barrett
People admire your strengths, but they love your vulnerability.
Erastus Wiman
Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much.
Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don’t care for.
Brian Tracy
People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.
Ernest Hemingway
You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.
Jason Sudeikis
Being polite and grateful will make people more inclined to help you. And if people are willing to help you, you may accidentally get something you want.
Cicero
The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.
Salvador Dali
The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
Berthold Auerbach
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Naguib Mahfouz
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do..
Samuel Johnson
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Eleanor Roosevelt
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.
Carl Jung
What you resist persists.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.
Eugene Ionesco
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
Ray Charles
You got to set your mind right and the rest will come to you naturally.
John Locke
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
Mary Kay Ash
Making people feel important is precisely what a leader is paid for — because making people feel important motivates them to do better work.
Sallust
They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
Marshall Goldsmith
Our [delusions of achievement, status and contributions] become a serious liability when we need to change. We sit there with the same godlike feelings, and when someone tries to make us change our ways we regard them with unadulterated bafflement.
Old Chinese Proverb
It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.
Carl Rogers
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
Samuel Johnson
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Benjamin Franklin
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.
Louis Pasteur
My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Judy Garland
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
William James
In any project the important factor is your belief. Without belief, there can be no successful outcome.
Elbert Hubbard
A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the experience.
Logan Pearsall Smith
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
Charles Kettering
If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.
Calvin Coolidge
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
Jesse Owens
The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself — the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us — that’s where it’s at.
Alexander Graham Bell
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
Dale Carnegie
You can make more friends in two months by becoming genuinely interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
William Shakespeare
Experience is a jewel, and it had need be so, for it is often purchased at an infinite rate.
Gita Mehta
Without desire there is no life. Everything will stand still. Become emptiness.
Henry van Dyke
Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except the best.
Will Durant
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Vincent van Gogh
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Publius Terence
Fortune favors the brave.
Marcus Aurelius
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Charles F. Kettering
A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Andreas Nikolaus “Niki” Lauda
What would life be like if we only did what is necessary?
Alicia Keys
I have come to embrace the idea that even the simplest act of understanding, love and attention can produce the biggest results.
Thomas Wolfe
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Lois McMaster Bujold
His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
Zig Ziglar
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
Solon
In all things that you do, consider the end.
Ann Beattie
People forget years and remember moments.
Jerome Kagan
Genes and family may determine the foundation of the house, but time and place determine its form.
George Matthew Adams
There is no such thing as a “self-made” man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts.
Ovid
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
Aristotle
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.
Will Rogers
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
Leo Tolstoy
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
John Churton Collins
In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
Brian Tracy
Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.
Thomas Paine
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
Laurel Mellin
The essential pain is the downside, the risk, the reality of the human condition you must face to follow through with your reasonable expectation. The earned reward is the upside, the advantage, the blessing of life you will receive if you follow through. Experiencing them over and over is how we retrain our feeling brain and grow ourselves up from the inside out.
Chinese proverb
If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.
Akira Kurosawa
There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
Viktor Frankl
No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
Steve Coogan
The important thing is not to be defined by what others think of you.
Thomas Fuller
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Arnold J. Toynbee
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
General Eric Shinseki
If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.
Joseph Addison
There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
James Cameron
Failure has to be an option. … No important endeavor that required innovation was done without risk.
Zig Ziglar
You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Daniel Goleman
If people lack the previous experiences that allow them to master a given leadership competence, however, it is still not too late – but it requires motivation. The brain’s ability to sprout fresh connections continues throughout life. It just takes more effort and energy to learn in adulthood lessons that would have come more readily in our early years.
Dwight Eisenhower
What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
Carl Rogers
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.
Albert Pike
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Pablo Casals
The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.
Robert Collier
Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out.
Isaac Newton
Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.
Jack Welch
An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive business advantage.
Tom Peters
Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.
Albert Einstein
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
John Dewey
Education … is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
Henry David Thoreau
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
Dany Garcia
Your job is not to run everything, but make sure everything runs.
Arthur Ashe
You’ve got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
Gail Sheely
If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we are not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning. As Dostoevsky put it, ‘taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.’ The real fear should be the opposite course.
Sam Walton
There is only one boss: the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
Sophia Loren
Mistakes are part of the dues that one pays for a full life.
Johann Sebastian Bach
I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.
Charles Darwin
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Herbert Bayard Swope
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–which is: Try to please everybody.
Marcus Aurelius
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
James Joyce
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
Fannie Flagg
Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.
Seneca the Younger
The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.
Denis Waitley
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
Baba Amte
I don’t want to be a great leader; I want to be a man who goes around with a little oil can and when he sees a breakdown, offers his help. To me, the man who does that is greater than any holy man in saffron-colored robes. The mechanic with the oilcan: that is my ideal in life.
Seth Godin
Anxiety is practicing failure in advance. Anxiety is needless and imaginary. It’s fear about fear, fear that means nothing.
Warren Bennis and Bert Nanus
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
John Wooden
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.
Marilyn vos Savant
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Claude Levi-Strauss
The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
Queen Elizabeth II
I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.
Johann Gottfried Von Herder
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Martin E. P. Seligman
A pessimistic attitude may seem so deeply rooted as to be permanent. I have found, however, that pessimism is escapable. Pessimists can in fact learn to be optimists, and not through mindless devices like whistling a happy tune or mouthing platitudes, but by learning a new set of cognitive skills.
Lord Chesterfield
If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.
Zig Ziglar
I believe that whatever your chosen profession, if you make a strong commitment and have a burning desire in your heart–combined with the conviction that you can make a difference–dogged persistence provides you the best insurance for success.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
Winston Churchill
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Felix Adler
The Supreme Ethical Rule: Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.
Davy Crockett
I have always supported measures and principles and not men. I have acted fearless and independent and I never will regret my course. I would rather be politically buried than to be hypocritically immortalized.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.
Unknown author
Get comfortable being uncomfortable. That’s when you see the most growth.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
Lawrence Bossidy
I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.
James Matthew Barrie
We are all failures, at least all the best of us.
Edith Wharton
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Virgil
They can because they think they can.
C.W. Metcalf
Take your work seriously but yourself lightly.
Edmund Hillary
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Maltbie Babcock
Our business in life is not to get ahead of other people, but to get ahead of ourselves.
Christian Nestell Bovee
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
Thomas Jefferson
Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
Thomas Edison
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes.
Niels Bohr
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
M. Scott Peck
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.
Woodrow Wilson
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Mike Ditka
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
George Matthew Adams
There is no such thing as a ‘self-made’ man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past.
P.D. James
The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.
Theodore Roosevelt
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is the knack of getting along with people.
T.S. Eliot
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Seneca
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.
Marcus Aurelius
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Isaac Asimov
A poor idea well written is more likely to be accepted than a good idea poorly written.
Hank Aaron
Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.
John Lennon
Every child is an artist until he is told he’s not an artist.
Will Durant
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Vincent van Gogh
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Joseph Addison
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
Timothy Sykes
Remember this: No matter what happens after taking a risk, you’ll always learn from the experience.
Mary Kay Ash
Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
Jack London
I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself..
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The only thing I know that truly heals people is unconditional love.
William Barrett
It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our noses is what we see last.
Vince Lombardi
Confidence is contagious; so is lack of confidence.
William R. Inge
There are two kinds of fools: One says, “This is old, therefore it is good”; the other says, “This is new, therefore it is better.”
Maria Robinson
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
Richard Steele
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.
Vernon Law
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
Warren Buffett
In a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
Zig Ziglar
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.
Lucille Ball
I’d rather regret the things I have done than regret the things I have not done.
Henry Ford
Money doesn’t change men. It merely unmasks them.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
Lao Tzu
A leader is best when people barely know that he exists. … When his work is done, his aims fulfilled, they will all say, ‘We did this ourselves.”
Mary Shelley
Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.
John H. Zenger and Joseph Folkman
A key skill for all successful leaders is the ability to continuously improve themselves.
Rosalynn Carter
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all.
Hyman G. Rickover
Success teaches us nothing; only failure teaches.
