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He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad Ali

Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big?
Charles L. Allen

Nothing works unless you do.
Maya Angelou

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.
Diane Arbus

We are what we repeatedly do.
Aristotle

You've got to get to the state in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
Arthur Ashe

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Berthold Auerbach

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
Saint Augustine

When you arise in the morning think of what a precious privelege it is to be alive - to breathe,
to think, to enjoy, to love.
Marcus Aurelius

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.
Ivern Ball

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
Bruce Barton

Try to remember that the picture you think, feel and see is reflected into the Universal Mind, and by natural law of reciprocal action must return to you in either spiritual or physical form.
Genevieve Behrend

We wander for distraction but we travel for fulfillment.
Hilaire Belloc

If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert.
David Ben-Gurion

I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.
Yogi Berra

The trouble is not that people are ignorant, the trouble is that they know so much that just ain't so.
Josh Billings

Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequiste.
Marlon Brando

Make visable what without you, might perhaps never have been.
Robert Bresson

He who hesitates is poor.
Mel Brooks

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
Buddha

In the sky there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
Buddah

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
Warren Buffett

The 21st century belongs to China. Invest accordingly.
Warren Buffett

Don't try.
Charles Bukowsky

In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
Frank Capra

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense.
Thomas Carlyle

The secret of success is an obsessional desire to render useful service.
Andrew Carnegie

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
Cervantes

To be prepared is half the victory.
Cervantes

La Jolla, California is a nice place for old people and their parents.
Raymond Chandler

What is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
Lord Chesterfield

If you are going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill

Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.
Bill Clinton

If you life life long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is nver quit, never quit, never quit.
Bill Clinton

The man who chases two rabbits catches neither.
Confucius

A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particulary feel like it.
Alisair Cooke

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lovely labor, to be given a chance to create is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
Bette Davis

Nurture your mind with great thoughts for you will never go any higher than you think.
Benjamin Disraeli

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
Peter Drucker

In the end it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
Max Dupree

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.
Wayne Dyer

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein

There are two ways to live your life. One is though nothing is a miracle. The other is as everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein

We succeed only as we indentify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
Dwight Eisenhower

You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
Dwight Eisenhower

No one can cheat you out of success but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self trust is the first secret to success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Study well what the billionaire does. It may make you a millionaire.
John Emmerling

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
Epictetus

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality;
and there are some who turn one into the other.
Douglas Everett

Money is important in life. It does not give you happiness, we all know, but it sure calms the nerves.
Maria Felix

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
B.C. Forbes

Thinking is the hardest work there is. Which is probably the reason so few engage in it.
Henry Ford

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret to success.
Henry Ford

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinate capacity to not know what can't be done.
Henry Ford

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
Benjamin Franklin

He that has patience can have what he will.
Benjamin Franklin

Be the change you wish to see in the world.
Gandhi

It's a job never started that takes the longest to finish.
John W. Gardner

There is only one way to make a great deal of money, and that is in a business of your own.
J Paul Getty

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.
Althea Gibson

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.
Arnold Gibson

Assume the fealing of the wish fulfilled.
Neville Goddard

The brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can do everything.
Goethe

He who reigns himself and rules his passion, desire and fears is more than a king.
Goethe

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.
Goethe

Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.
Goethe

The only sin is mediocrity.
Martha Graham

Fear and God do not occupy the same space.
Dick Gregory

If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.
Edward Everett Hale

It is better to be envied than pitied.
Herodotus

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is.
Catfish Hunter

Great mind have purposes, others have wishes.
Washington Irving

Fidarsi e bene, non fidarsi e meglio.
To trust is good, not to trust is better.
Italian Proverb

It's no accident that things are more likely to go your way when you stop worrying about whether you're going to win or lose, and focus all your full attention on what's happening right at this moment.
Phil Jackson

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
William James

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Michael Jordan

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Helen Keller

There are risks and costs of a plan of action. But there are far less than the longrange risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
John F. Kennedy

The difference between intelligence and education is this: Intelligence will make you a good living.
Charles Kettering

Life's most persistant and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?
Martin Luther King Jr.

Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carrry money without spending it, and to bear injustice without wanting to get even.
Ann Landers

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
Christopher Lasch

The quality of life you experience will be directly related to the quality of the questions you ask.
Dorothy Leeds

The more real you are, the more unreal your life will become.
John Lennon

It is better to be 100% of who you are than any % of what you're not.
Rush Limbaugh

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln

One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.
Abraham Lincoln

Every level of income demands a different you.
Mike Litman

Practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.
Vince Lombardi

Either do or do not, there is no try.
George Lucas

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
General Douglas MacArthur

The most delightful suprise in life is to suddenly recognize your own worth.
Maxwell Maltz

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
Groucho Marx

Of the considerable money I have made in my lifetime, the great majority of it has come from investing in trends. Not foolishly running behind the herd (I'd like to think), but shrewdly going with the flow.
Michael Masterson

Others can stop you temporarily, but only you can do it permanently.
John Maxwell

Do not put yourself in front of your self.
Mayan Proverb

Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.
Robert McKee

Never doubt that a small group of thoughful, commited citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead

I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everthing.
Dan Millman

Help others get ahead. You will always stand taller with someone else on your shoulders.
Bob Moawad

A man always two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
J.P. Morgan

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Napoleon

We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.
Anais Nin

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anais Nin

The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.
David Ogilvy

I have a ten year old at home and she's always saying "That's not fair," When she says that I say,
Honey, you're cute; that's not fair. Your family is pretty well off; that's not fair. You were born in America; that's not fair. Honey, you had better pray to God that things don't start getting fair for you.
P.J. O'Rourke

I do not fear failure. I only fear the "slowing up" of the engine inside me which is pounding, saying "Keep going. Someone must be on top, why not you?"
General George S. Patton

I will have no man work for me who has not the capacity to become a partner.
James Cash Penny

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Plato

A man's dreams are an index of his greatness.
Zadoc Rabinowitz

I don't believe in fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.
Ronald Reagan

There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either in or out. There's no such thing as a life in-between.
Pat Riley

To become financially independent you must turn part of your income into Capital; then turn capital into Enterprise; turn enterprise into Profit; turn profit into Investment; and turn investment into Financial Independence.
Jim Rohn

Poor people have big TVs. Rich people have big libraries.
Jim Rohn

You always pass failure on the way to success.
Mickey Rooney

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can detirmine how it should be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg

One of the internet's strenghts is its ability to help consumers find the right needle in a digital haystack of data.
Jared Sandberg

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Robert Schuller

The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.
John Scully

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare

It is a sin to be poor.
George Bernard Shaw

All professions are consiracies against the laity.
George Bernard Shaw

When you're riding; only the race in whcih you're riding is important.
Bill Shoemaker

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.
Alan Simpson

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
Socrates

When you talk you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something.
Jared Sparks

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
G.B. Stern

So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go, they don't overcome inertia, they don't begin.
W. Clement Stone

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid, and deeds left undone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Jonathan Swift

We should not wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
Frank Tibolt

Make a habit of dominating the listening and let the customer dominate the talking.
Brian Tracy

People get caught up in wonderful, eye catching pitches, but they don't do enough to close the deal. It's not good if you don't make the sale. Even if your foot is in the door or you bring someone into a conference room, you don't win the deal unless you actually get them to sign on the bottom line.
Donald Trump

If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint" then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh

Life is thickly sown with thorns and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater their power to harm us.
Voltaire

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
Denis Waitley

The path of least resistance is the path of a loser.
H.G. Wells

Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
Alfred North Whitehead

You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
Frederick Wilcox

The true perfection of man lies in not what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
Oscar Wilde

I have nothing to complain about.
Oprah Winfry

Many of us spend half our time wishing for things you would have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.
Alexander Woolcott

The truth is more important than facts.
Frank Lloyd Wright

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright

What would you rather be in life, a meaningful specific or a wandering generality?
Zig Ziglar

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will do.
Zig Ziglar

Everyone starts from scratch but not everyone keeps on scratching.
Anonymous

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain.
Anon

Bad things are not the worst thing that can happen to us. "Nothing" is the worst thing that can happen to us.
Anon

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
Anon

In order to win, you must expect to win.
Anon

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
Anon

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
Anon

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.
Anon

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
Anon

Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds.
Anon

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to when all they need is one reason why they can.
Anon

I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things I have not.
Anon

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish - and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.
Anon