-
"Maturity
of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty"
~John
Finley
-
"In the
end we can never be given knowledge by others; we can
only be stimulated. We must develop our own knowledge"
~Charles
T. Tart
-
"If you
judge people, you have no time to love them"
~Mother
Teresa
-
"You never
find yourself until you face the truth"
~Pearl
Bailey
-
Never look
back unless you want to go that way.
-
The
quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to
their commitment to excellence, regardless of their
chosen field of endeavor. ~Vincent T. Lombardi
-
Leadership
has less to do with position than it does with
disposition.
-
The only
real failure comes when you stop trying. ~G. D. Sorrell
-
Until
input (thought) is linked to a goal (purpose) there can
be no intelligent accomplishment.
~Paul G. Thomas
-
People
with goals succeed because they know where they’re
going. ~Earl Nightingale
-
Discovery ~We do
things to learn something we can define, and we wind up
knowing things we never even imagined asking about.
~Maxine Singer
-
The secret of getting ahead is getting
started. The secret of getting started is breaking your
complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks,
and then starting on the first one. ~Mark Twain
-
"While one
hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy
making mistakes and becoming superior."
-- Henry C. Link
-
"Of
course it's hard. It's supposed to be
hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it.
Hard is what makes it great." -- From the
movie A League of Their Own
-
"When
people say to me: "How do you do so many things?" I
often answer them without meaning to be cruel: "How do
you do so little?" It seems to me that people have vast
potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if
they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most
people sit in front of the TV and treat life as if it
goes on forever." -- Phillip Adams
-
Give me
somewhere to stand, and I will move the earth." --
Archimedes
-
"The only
way to avoid failure is to never try anything new." --
Unknown
-
"What would you attempt to do if you knew
you could not fail?" -- Dr. Robert Schuller
-
Visionary,
because without a clear goal, you will not be able to
show others the direction to move.
~Kalai Selvan, Motorola Inc. (Singapore)
-
The way to
gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you
desire to appear.
~Socrates
-
Your
business should be defined, not in terms of the product
or service you offer, but in terms of what customer need
your product or service fulfills. While products come
and go, basic needs and customer groups stay around,
i.e., the need for communication, the need for
transportation, etc. What market need do you
supply? ~Ken Blanchard and Terry Waghorn in ‘Mission
Possible’
-
The secret
of success in life is for (one) to be ready for
opportunity when it comes. ~Benjamin Disraeli
-
Image
creates desire. You will what you imagine. ~J.G.
Gallimore
-
The secret of getting ahead is getting
started. The secret of getting started is breaking your
complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks,
and then starting on the first one. ~Mark Twain
-
My attitude has always been… if it's
worth playing, it's worth paying the price to win. ~Paul
"Bear" Bryant
-
Beware of those who stand aloof and greet
each venture with reproof; the world would stop if
things were run by men who say, "It can't be done".
-
Our children are like mirrors - they
reflect our attitudes in life.
-
Live your
life each day as you would climb a mountain. An
occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in
mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from
each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily,
enjoying each passing moment, and the view from the
summit will prove to be astonishing.
-
Once the
toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get back in.
~H.R. Haldeman, White House Chief of Staff
-
In
business, the competition will bite you if you keep
running; if you stand still, they will swallow you.
~William Knudson Jr., Chairman, Ford Motor Company
-
Attitudes
are nothing more than habits of thoughts…repetition can
change attitudes. ~G. Sorrell
-
Nothing
can stop a person with the right attitude from pursuing
their goals.
-
The
learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than
the unlearned, but it is still nonsense. ~Benjamin
Franklin
-
Kindness begets kindness.
Greek Proverb
-
You commit a sin of omission if you do
not utilize all the power that is within you. All men
have claims on man, and to the man with special talents,
this is a very special claim. It is required that a man
take part in the actions and clashes of his time than
the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
-
The difference between what we do and
what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most
of the world’s problems. -Gandhi
-
"I'm not a gambler and I didn't have that
kind of money, but my funnybone instinct kept urging me
on. So I closed my office door, cussed up and down, and
threw things out the window. Then I called the lawyer
back and said; 'Take it!'" -- Ray Kroc, MacDonalds' CEO
on purchasing McDonalds
-
I am sure that if every leader who goes
into battle will promise himself that he will come out
either a conqueror or a corpse, he is sure to win. There
is no doubt of that. Defeat is not due to losses but to
the destruction of the Soul of the leaders--the 'live to
fight another day' doctrine. -- General George S. Patton
Jr.
-
A wise man will make more opportunities
than he finds. Francis Bacon
-
If you would be known, and not know,
vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be
known, live in a city. - Charles Caleb Colton
-
"Solitude is
painful when one is young, but delightful when one is
more mature." ~Albert Einstein
-
"Patience
means self-suffering." ~Mahatma Gandhi
-
The greatest
discovery of my generation is that human beings can
alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
~William James
-
Nothing is
impossible to a willing heart. ~Joan Heywood
-
Wisdom has
its root in goodness, and not goodness its root in
wisdom. ~Emerson
-
"Who I am is
much bigger than anything that could ever happen to me."
- Anthony Robbins
-
"Whatever you
focus on is what you get." - Anthony Robbins
-
"People are
my greatest resource." - Anthony Robbins
-
"There is no
such thing as failure, only results." - Anthony Robbins
-
Continuous
improvement is better than delayed perfection. ~Mark
Twain
-
Success comes
to those who make it happen. ~Gary Sorrell
-
Fortune
favors the bold but abandons the timid. Latin Proverb
-
You can
educate a fool, but you cannot make him think. The
Talmud
-
Take all the
fools out of this world and there wouldn’t be any fun
living in it, or profit. ~Josh Billings
-
Just think
how happy you would be if you lost everything you have
right now, and then got it back again.
Frances Rodman
-
Not much
happens without a dream. And for something great to
happen, there must be a great dream. Behind every great
achievement is a dreamer of great dreams. ~Robert
Greenleaf
-
Get the fools
on your side and you can be elected to anything. ~Frank
Dane
-
I am sure
that if every leader who goes into battle will promise
himself that he will come out either a conqueror or a
corpse, he is sure to win. There is no doubt of that.
Defeat is not due to losses but to the destruction of
the Soul of the leaders--the 'live to fight another day'
doctrine. ~General George S. Patton Jr.
-
Success is
the accomplishment of predetermined goals. So set your
goals high. Anonymous
-
The mind
covers more ground than the heart but goes less far.
Chinese Proverb
-
If to talk to
oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to
listen to oneself in the presence of others.
~Baltasar Gracian
-
You can make
more friends in two months by becoming interested in
other people than you can in two years by trying to get
others interested in you. ~Dale Carnegie
-
"Challenges
are an opportunity to learn and grow." - Anonymous
-
"It's what
you learn after you know everything that counts." - John
Wooden
-
"The best way
to predict the future is to create it." - Peter Drucker
-
"Success is
how high you bounce when you've hit bottom."
--General George Patton
-
"The more
original a discovery, the more obvious it seems
afterwards." --Arthur Koestler
-
"Behind every
successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years."
~Bob Brown
-
"Perseverance
is not a long race; it is many short races one after
another." --Walter Elliot
-
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes. ~Henry
J. Kaiser
-
The
real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new
landscapes - but in having new eyes.
~Marcel Proust
-
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.
Michael Jordan
-
We
get so much in the habit of wearing a disguise before
others that we eventually appear disguised before
ourselves.
~Jim Bishop
-
Look at
everything as though you were seeing it either for the
first or last time. ~Betty Smith
-
Leadership
is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in
actions. ~Harold S. Geneen
-
"The secret
of success in life is for a man to be ready for his
opportunity when it comes." ~Benjamin Disraeli
-
"You cannot
consistently perform in a manner which is inconsistent
with the way you see yourself." ~Zig Ziglar
-
Smile -
what can it hurt?
-
"A smile
costs nothing, but creates much, It happens in a flash,
but the memory of it lasts forever, It cannot be bought,
begged, borrowed nor stolen, but it is Something that is
no earthly good to anyone until it is given away. So if
in your hurry and rush You meet someone, who is too
weary to give you a smile, Leave one of yours, For no
one needs a smile quite as much as the one who has none
left to give."
-Author Unknown
-
It is not
your customer's job to remember you; it is your
obligation and responsibility to make sure they don't
have the chance to forget you.
-
"Success is
never final, and failure is never fatal; it's courage
that counts." - Unknown
-
"Stone walls
do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage." - Richard
Lovelace
-
To put the
world in order, we must first put the nation in order;
to put the nation in order, we must put the family in
order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our
personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we
must first set our hearts right. ~ Confucius ~
-
We must
become the change we want to see. ~ Mahatma Gandhi ~
-
I don't
measure a man's success by how high he climbs, but how
high he bounces when he hits bottom. ~ George S. Patton
~
-
Never doubt
that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can
change the world.
-
Indeed, it is
the only thing that ever has. ~ Margaret Mead
-
"It is
change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is
the dominant factor in society today. No sensible
decision can be made any longer without taking into
account not only the world as it is, but the world as it
will be." ~ Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992) US science
writer, science-fiction writer
-
The potential
of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a
new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities
waiting to be released and channeled toward some great
good. ~ Brian Tracy
-
"After all,
the chief business of the American people is business."
~ Calvin Coolidge
-
"Taking a new
step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most." -
Fyodor Dostoevsky
-
"What you see
is what you get." - Flip Wilson
-
"We are
always getting ready to live, but never living." - Ralph
Waldo Emerson
-
"Failure is
only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again."
- Henry Ford
-
"Expect
victory and you make victory." - Preston Bradley
-
"Excellence
means when a man or a woman asks of himself more than
others do." - Ortega Y Gasset
-
"Little minds
attain and are subdued by misfortunes; but great minds
rise above them." - Washington Irving
-
"There is no
limit on earnings." - Earl Nightingale
-
"We are
slaves to whatever we don't understand." - Vernon Howard
-
"What's going
on in the inside shows on the outside." - Earl
Nightingale
-
"What I do is
prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do."
- Joe Namath
-
"You are
where you are today because you've chosen to be there."
- Harry Browne
-
"The greatest
power that a person posseses is the power to choose." -
J. Martin Kohe
-
"A man is
literally what he thinks." - Abraham Lincoln
-
"It's not the
situation....It's your reaction to the situation." - Bob
Conklin
-
"Each of us
bears responsibility for all who look up to us." - Kent
Krive
-
"When we fail
to appreciate, we begin to depreciate." - Kent Krive
-
"He who has
begun has half done." - Horace
-
"Take away
love and our earth is a tomb." - Robert Browning
-
"Give
yourself something to work toward constantly." - Mary
Kay Ash
-
"What is
important is that one strives to achieve a goal." -
Ronald Reagan
-
"We are all
born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its
only end." - Benjamin Disraeli
-
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical
substances, if there is any reaction, both are transformed. ~ Dr. Carl Jung
-
"You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing." - Andrew Jackson
-
"All doors open to courtesy." - Thomas Fuller
-
"To know is to control." - Scott Reed
-
"Put yourself in a position where luck can happen" Gary Sorrell
-
"Thoughts are forces." - Ralph Waldo Trine
-
"We know what we are, but know not what we may be." - William Shakespeare
-
"The only lack or limitation is in your own mind." - N.H. Moos
-
"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit." -
Napoleon Hill
-
"Success...seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit." - Conrad Hilton
-
"Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society." -
Confucius
-
"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the
difference between lightening and the lightening bug." - Mark Twain
-
"That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying." - Cervantes
-
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." - Francis Bacon
-
"Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself." - Thomas Jefferson
-
"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have
of it." - Thomas Jefferson
-
"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time." - Thomas
Jefferson
-
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." - Martin Luther King,
Jr.
-
"Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to
laugh either." - Golda Meir
-
"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure." - Unknown
-
"There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability.
It is the ability to recognize ability." - Robert Half
-
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." - Elmer Letterman
-
"Who is a wise man?
He who learns from all men." - The Talmud
-
"You are the same
today that you'll be five years from now except for two things: the people
you meet and the books you read." - Mac McMillan
-
"No man fails who
does his best..." - Orison Swett Marden
-
"Always do your
best. What you plant now, you will harvest later." - Og Mandino
-
"The scars you
acquire by excercising courage will never make you feel inferior." - D.A.
Battista
-
"Yesterday is a
cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you
haveso spend it wisely." - Kay Lyons
-
"The difference
between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack
of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will." - Vincent T. Lombardi
-
"The man who believes he can do something is probably right,
and so is the man who believes he can't." - Unknown
-
"All progress
begins by asking a better question." - Robert Stuberg
-
"Never give in, never give in,
never, never, never, never – in nothing, great or small, large or petty –
never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense." – Winston
Churchill
-
"Government's view of the company
could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps
moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." – Ronald Regan
-
“I know the price of success:
dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to
see happen.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
-
“There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.”
General Colin L. Powell
-
"Leaders aren't born, they are
made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work." Vince
Lombardi (1913-1970) football coach
-
"Know Thyself." - Socrates
-
You can have anything you want –
if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything
you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of
purpose. - Abraham Lincoln
-
Putting off an easy thing makes
it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible. -Charles E. Wilson
-
"Happiness lies in the joy of
achievement and the thrill of creative effort." Franklin D. Roosevelt
-
"Accept the challenges, so that
you may feel the exhilaration of victory." - General George S. Patton
-
“Do not follow where the path may
lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” - Unknown
-
“The reward of a thing well done
is to have done it.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson “Destiny is not a matter of
chance; it is a matter of choice.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes
-
“Success equals longevity” - Tom
Hanks
-
“The difference between ordinary
and extraordinary is that little extra.” - Unknown
-
“People forget how fast you did a
job - but they remember how well you did it.” - Howard W. Newton
-
“The speed of the leader
determines the rate of the pack.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
"Winners expect to win in
advance. Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy." - Unknown
-
“When you reach for the stars you
may not quite get one, but you won’t come up with a handful of mud either.”
Leo Burnett (1891-1971)
-
I tell you and you forget. I show you and you
remember. I involve you and you understand. ~ Eric Butterworth
-
You are the only person on this earth who can
use your abilities.
-
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go
instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ~ Muriel Strode
-
One of the secrets of life is to make stepping
stones out of stumbling blocks. ~ Jack Penn
-
Don’t base your success; success
of your life, on other people’s expectations. View success the way you want
it to be and set a course to make it happen. ~ Gary Sorrell
-
Only those who risk going too far
will ever know how far they can go. ~ Author Unknown
-
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion
against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world would do
this, it would change the earth.
- William Faulkner
-
To grasp and hold a vision - that is the very
essence of successful leadership.
Ronald Reagan
-
The first rule of focus is this:
"Wherever you are, be there."
Unknown Author
-
Lose not yourself in a far off
time, seize the moment that is thine.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
-
Success is not the result of
spontaneous combustion, you must set yourself on fire first.
Reggie Leach
-
If a window of opportunity
appears, don't pull down the shade.
Thomas J. Peters
-
The golden opportunity you are
seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or
chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
Orison Swett Marden
-
There will come a time when you
believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
Louis L'Amour
-
Though no one can go back and make
a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Carl Bard
-
It is not the mountain we conquer,
but ourselves.
Sir Edmund Hillary
-
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, 1st First
Lady
-
Weakness of attitude becomes
weakness of character.
Albert Einstein, physicist
-
I take nothing for granted. I now
have only good days, or great days.
Lance Armstrong, Tour de France winner
-
Ability is what you're capable of
doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do
it.
Lou Holtz, football coach
-
It is not your aptitude, but your
attitude, that determines your altitude.
Zig Ziglar
-
Live out your imagination not your
history.
Stephen R. Covey, author and lecturer
-
Too many leaders act as if the
sheep—their people—are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the
shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.
Ken Blanchard
-
Never confuse activity with
results.
Lou Gerstner, CEO of IBM
- Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one
can go.
T. S. Elliot
-
Take calculated risks. That is
quite different from being rash.
George S. Patton, Jr., U.S. general
-
If you want risk taking, set an
example yourself and reward and praise those that do.
Jack Welch, former GE CEO
-
Only those who dare to fail greatly
can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy, US senator, US attorney general
-
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 the safe harbor. Catch the trade
winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
-
Most salespeople try to take the
horse to water and make him drink. It’s your job to make the horse thirsty.
Gabriel Siegel, President of MediCab of NY
-
People do not like to be sold….but
they love to buy.
Linda Martin, Founder Resource Associates Corporation
-
It’s not what you know, it’s who
you know. It’s not who you know, it’s who knows you.
Unknown
-
The exact words that you use are
far less important than the energy, intensity and conviction with which you
use them.
Jules Rose, Vice President, Sloan Supermarkets
-
Some men are just as firmly
convinced of what they think as others are of what they know.
Aristotle, philosopher
-
A man cannot be comfortable without
his own approval.
Mark Twain
-
You can live a lifetime and, at the
end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.
Beryl Markham, aviator
-
If I were given the opportunity to
present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each
individual to learn to laugh at himself.
Charles Shulltz, cartoonist
-
Every man takes the limits of his
own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur Schopenhaure, philosopher
-
I am always doing things I can’t
do; that is how I get to do them.
Pablo Picasso, artist
-
Critics hang around and wait for
others to make mistakes. But the real doers of the world have not time for
criticizing others. They are too busy doing, making mistakes, improving,
making progress.
Dr. Wayne Dyer
-
Strength does not come from
winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships
and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
-
It is easy to have faith in
yourself when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you’ve got to have
is faith in yourself when you’re not a winner.
Vince Lombardi, football coach
-
Try first to be a man of value;
success will follow. Albert Einstein, physicist
-
Quality questions create a quality
life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better
answers.
Anthony Robbins
-
Discovery consists of seeing what
everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi, US Biochemist
-
There is only one success—to be
able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley, author
-
It's how you deal with failure that
determines how you achieve success. David Feherty
-
I know the price of success:
dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to
see happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright
-
Everyone has talent.
Erica Jong
-
If a team is to reach its
potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to
the good of the team.
Bud Wilkinson, football coach
-
Alone we can do so little; together
we can do so much.
Helen Keller.
-
It is surprising what a man can do
when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to.
Walter Linn
-
Some people change when they see
the light, others when they feel the heat.
Caroline Schoeder
-
The greatest amount of wasted time
is the time not getting started.
Dawson Trotman
-
We are not compelled to meditate by
some outside agent, by other people, or by God. Rather, just as we are
responsible for our own suffering, so are we solely responsible for our own
cure. We have created the situation in which we find ourselves, and it is up
to us to create the circumstances for our release.
Lama Thubten Yeshe, Buddhist teacher
-
You can’t see the future through a
review mirror.
Peter Lynch, investor
-
The problems of this world cannot
possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the
obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
John F. Kennedy, 35th U.S. president
-
The future never just happened. It
was created.
Will and Ariel Durant, authors
-
Let your hook be always cast; in
the pool where you least expect it will be a fish.
Ovid, Latin poet
-
Do not go where the path may lead,
go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
If opportunity doesn’t knock, build
a door.
Milton Berle
-
I've found that luck is quite
predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up
more often.
Brian Tracy
-
Making a consistent small
investment in people can reproduce itself to create an outstanding return.
Scott Johnson, composer
-
A person who won't read has no
advantage over one who can't read.
Mark Twain
-
When two men in business always
agree, one of them is unnecessary.
-
If everybody is thinking alike,
then somebody is not thinking.
George S. Patton, US Army General
-
The man who follows the crowd will
usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to
find himself in places no one has ever been.
Alan Ashley-Pitts, author
-
Affirmations are the acclamations
of life and success.
Gary Sorrell
-
"We are all faced with a series
of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations."
Charles R. Swindoll
-
"Luck is what happens when
preparation meets opportunity."
Seneca
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"Don't wait for extraordinary
opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for
opportunities; strong men make them." Orison Swett Marden
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"Opportunity is missed by most
people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
Thomas Alva Edison
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"The freedom to move forward to
new opportunities and to produce results comes from living in the present
not the past."
Brian Koslow
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"Opportunities always look bigger
going than coming."
Unknown
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"Even when opportunity knocks a
man still has to get up off his seat and open the door."
Unknown
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"An obstacle is often an
unrecognized opportunity."
Unknown
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"Wise men make more opportunities
than they find."
Francis Bacon, Sr.
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“There is nothing like a dream to
create the future.”
Victor Hugo
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“It is not your aptitude, but your
attitude, that determines your altitude.”
Zig Ziglar
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“Live out your imagination not your
history.”
Stephen R. Covey
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“Too many leaders act as if
the sheep—their people—are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the
shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.”
Ken Blanchard
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“Never confuse activity with
results.”
Lou Gerstner, CEO of IBM
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"Action may not always bring
happiness; but there is no happiness without action."
Benjamin Disraeli “
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Peace. It does not mean to be in a
place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It means to be in the
midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.”
Unknown
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What matters is not the idea a
man holds, but the depth at which he holds it. ~Ezra Pound
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This is how humans are: we
question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those
we never think to question. ~Orson Scott Card
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He does not believe who does not
live according to his belief. ~Thomas Fuller
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The eloquent man is he who is no
beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain
belief. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Generally the theories we believe
we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories. ~Felix Cohen
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Human beings are perhaps never
more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are
right. ~Laurens van der Post
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It is easier to believe than to
doubt. ~E.D. Martin, The Meaning of a Liberal Education
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Leadership is lifting a person's
vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher
standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005)‘The Dean of Management’
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