The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs. -Vance Havner
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -T.S. Eliot
Plan your work and work your plan. -Napolean Hill
I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul. -William Ernest Henley
You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you. -Barbara Sher
There are two primary choices in life to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. -Dr. Denis Waitley
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice: It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. -William Jennings Bryan
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. -Theodore Rubin
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. -Goethe
Your most valuable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else. -Brian Tracy
Destiny is not a matter of chance, but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for it is a thing to be achieved. -William Jennings Bryant
To achieve something you've never achieved before, you must become someone you've never been before. -Bria Tracy
The secret of happiness is not doing what one likes, but liking what one has to do. -James M. Burrie
The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don't say much. -Germain G. Glidden
I do not ask for any crown but that which all may win; nor try to conquer any world except the one within. -Louisa May Alcott
I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back. -Philip Brookes
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. -W. Somerset Maugham
Not doing more than average is what keeps the average down. -William M. Winans
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -T. S. Eliot
Anger blows out the candle of the mind. -R. G. Ingersoll
Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. -General George S. Patton
You never fail until you stop trying. -Florence Griffith Joyner
The greatest mistake you can make in this life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -Elbert Hubbard
Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be. -Jose Ortega y Gasset
Avoid competency traps. Do not stay only where you are good at things, Go out and be challenged. -Andrew Creighton
Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it. -Charles L. Allen
Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration. -Evan Esar
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure--which is: Try to please everybody. -Herbert Bayard Swope
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. -Leon J. Suenes
Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings. -Ralph Blum
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. -William B. Sprague
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. -Arthur C. Clarke
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes. -St. Clement of Alexandra
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. -Benjamin Spock
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. -Erich Fromm
To the question of your life you are the answer, and to the problems of your life you are the solution. -Joe Cordare
Don't let anyone steal your dream. It's your dream, not theirs. -Dan Zadra
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity. -W. Clement Stone
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly. -Stephen R. Covey
Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them. -William Arthur Ward
Forget about all the reasons why something may not work. You only need to find one good reason why it will. -Dr. Robert
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 J. Lombardi
The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal. -Francie Larrieu Smith
In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. -Jane Smiley
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing -- that's why we recommend it daily. -Zig Ziglar
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. -Jim Ryun
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad. -Denis Waitley
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. -Confucius
When we accept tough jobs as a challenge and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen. -Arland Gilbert
Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. -William James
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. -Frank Tibolt
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. -Herm Albright
Real confidence comes from knowing and accepting yourself--your strengths and your limitations - in contrast to depending on affirmation from others. -Judith M. Bardwick
To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream. Not only plan but also believe. -Anatole France
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. -Elinor Smith
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction. -Jawaharlal Nehru
It’s not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man who says the oath. -Aeschylus
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad. -Denis Waitley
Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first. -Frederick B. Wilcox
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. -Robert M. Pirsig
Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. -Groucho Marx
There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet. -William Frederick Halsy, Jr.
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us. -Alexander Graham Bell
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.--Marie Curie
Above all, challenge yourself. You may well surprise yourself at what strengths you have, what you can accomplish. -Cecile M. Springer
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. -Henry David Thoreau
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. -Thomas A. Bennett
Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress. -Alfred A. Montapert
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. -Warren Buffett
To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking. -Goethe
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. -Robert Brault
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. -Benjamin Mays
If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative. -Woody Allen
If you're made of the right material, a hard fall is bound to result in a high bounce.
It is your attitude and not your aptitude that determines your altitude. -Zig Zigler
Size isn't everything. The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine. -Bill Vaughan
