Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Theodore Roosevelt
An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity.
Unknown
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my own ship.
Louis May Alcott
Even when opportunity knocks a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.
Unknown
There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone--many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long. Not for nothing is their motto TGIF -- 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do.
Richard Nelson Bolles, What Color is Your Parachute?
A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
Elbert Hubbard, The Note-Book, 1927
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity.
Andrew Carnegie
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.
Robert Brault
You always have time for the first thing you do.
Unknown
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.
Gil Stern
That’s not the horizon, that’s the edge of your rut.
Author Unknown
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them.
Leonard Louis Levinson
Optimism is the foundation of courage.
Nicholas Murray Butler
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
Frances Willard
Our futures are not in the hands of fate, but in ours.
Jules Jusserano
Just do it.
Nike Slogan
We create our fate everyday…most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.
Henry Miller
Fear, desire, hope still push us on toward the future.
Michel de Montaigne
What makes life dreary is want of motive.
George Eliot
He who limps still walks.
Stanislaw Lec
When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.
Sydney Smith
The best way out of a problem is through it.
Anonymous
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Albert Einstein
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
On the human chessboard, all moves are possible.
Miriam Schiff
The cure for grief is motion.
Elbert Hubbard
What you can do or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Goethe
Who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
J.C.F von Schiller
Let me listen to me and not to them.
Gertrude Stein
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Earl of Chesterfield
All work is a seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.
Thomas Carlyle
To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will still land among the stars.
Les Brown
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
Mike Wickett
To have striven, to have made an effort, to have been true to certain ideals—this alone is worth the struggle.
Sir William Osler
To understand is to forgive, even oneself.
Alexander Chase
Do what you can, where you are, and with what you’ve got.
M.J. Kraybill
With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Chinese Proverb
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Mark Twain
It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get up again.
Vince Lombardi
Success is not about hocus pocus…it’s about focus, focus.
If you’re coasting, you’re going downhill.
L.R. Pierson
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot
Be always sure you’re right, then go ahead.
Davy Crockett
Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.
John Dewey
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror.
Winston Churchill
If you are going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill
Oftentimes nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right and well-managed.
John Milton
Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.
Frank Tyger
The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.
Swedish Proverb
A man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Mark Twain
Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.
Kenneth Hildebrand
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Jim Ryun
In my experience there is only one motivation, and that is desire.
Jane Smiley
Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice and need.
Voltaire
Promote your uniqueness, not your sameness.
Angela I. Schutz
A kind word is like a spring day.
Russian Proverb
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
George S. Patton
We are on earth to do good for others. What the others are here for I do not know.
W.H. Auden
No act of kindness no matter how small is ever wasted.
Aesop
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
Duke Ellington
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
I wept because I had no shoes, until I saw a man who had no feet.
Ancient Persian Saying
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Pearl S. Buck
Opportunities always look bigger going than coming.
Unknown
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
We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road—the one "less traveled by"—offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.
Rachel Carson
Keep well to the grace of the moment. Do your best and leave the rest to God.
Betty Seton
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
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Alva Edison
The freedom to move forward to new opportunities and to produce results comes from living in the present not the past.
Brian Koslow
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Victor Hugo
Success isn’t something that you do on the outside, success is something that you are on the inside. The rest will follow.
Chuck Danes
Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem. Expect abundance on every level.
Eileen Caddy
For the prosperous, it’s not about getting more stuff. It’s about having the freedom to make almost any decision you want.
T. Harv Eker
You enhance your chances for success when you understand that your yearning power is more important than your earning power.
Zig Ziglar
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Edison
If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.
Dhirubhai Ambani
If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents. Value what you know & start charging for it.
Kim Garst
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
Harriet Tubman
Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.
Charles Swindoll
If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
Jim Rohn
Forgive yourself for being anything less than beautiful.
Iyanla Vansant
Put binders on those things that conspire to hold you back, especially those in your own head.
Meryl Streep
Your mind will answer most questions, if you learn to relax and wait for the answer..
William S. Bourroughs
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
Maya Angelou