• “To gain the most from your life journey,treat every person you meet as a teacher and every situation you experience as a learning opportunity.” —Eric Allenbaugh
  • “If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple: Know what you are doing, love  what you are doing, and believe in what you are doing. It’s just that simple.” —Will Rogers
  • Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the  world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” —Margaret Mead
  • “It’s an impossible situation, but it has possibilities.” —Sam Goldwyn
  • “The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” —Michelangelo
  • “Success is the progressive realization of a worthwhile goal.” —Napoleon Hill
  • “We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it.” —Galileo
  • “Success is not for the ambivalent. It’s for those who know what they want and go after it, no matter how difficult the path.” —Alex Trotman
  • “Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe.” —Winston Churchill
  • “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.” —Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • “In the presence of greatness, pettiness disappears.” —Robert Fritz
  • “The things that get rewarded get done.” —Michael LeBoeuf
  • “On course doesn’t mean perfect. On course means that even when things don’t go perfectly, you are still going in the right direction.” —Charles Garfield
  • “Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.” —Dr. Robert Jarvik,
  • “Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin in boldness. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” —Goethe
  • “A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows he will never sit.” Elton Trueblood
  • “Passion is something that starts in the gut, floods the imagination, and comes to reside in the will. Passion is disciplined when it has focus, consistency, persistence, and, above all, integrity.” James Kouzer and Berry Posner
  • “At the very beginning, I had a very clear picture of what the company would look like when it was finally done… I realized that for IBM to become a great company it would have to act like a great company long before it ever became one.” —Tom Watson,
  • “No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.” Voltaire
  • “A vision is only an idea or an image of a more desirable future for the organization, but the right vision is an idea so energizing that it in effect jump-starts the future by calling forth the skills, talents, and resources to make it happen.” —Burt Nanus
  • “Anyone who says they work just for the money has given up the hope that anything more is possible.” —Peter Block
  • “Not everything that counts can be counted.” —Denis Burkitt
  • “Always do the right thing. That will gratify some of the people and astonish the rest.” —Mark Twain
  • “Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul which have been restored and brought to light in this age, none is more gladdening or fruitful of divine promise and confidence than this— that you are the master of your thought, the molder of your character, and the maker and shaper of condition, environment, and destiny.” —James Allen
  • “Everything that you are against weakens you; everything that you are for empowers you.” —Wayne Dyer
  • “Drive the business or it will drive thee.” —Benjamin Franklin
  • “If nothing changes, nothing changes.” —Earnie Larsen
  • “The hard stuff is easy. The soft stuff is hard.” —Tom Peters
  • “While you are not responsible for your reputation, you are responsible for your character.” —Wayne Dyer
  • “Know your truth, speak your truth, live your truth.” Eileen Hannegan
  • “Decisions are easy when values are clear.” —Roy Disney
  • “We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.” —Omar Bradley
  • “Never succumb to pressure. Succumb only to principle.” —Roger Fisher & William Ury
  • “The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it’s the same problem you had last year!” —John Foster Dulles
  • “This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.” —William Shakespeare
  • “Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him.” —James Allen
  • “To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.” —Deepak Chopra, M.D.
  • “Profit is the applause you get for satisfying customer needs and creating a fulfilling work environment.” —Ken Blanchard
  • “If you don’t take care of your customers, somebody else will.” —Ken Blanchard
  • “We pay too much attention to prospects and not enough attention to customers.” —Tom Peters
  • “The only thing that your competitors can’t steal from you is your relationship with your competitors.” —Ken Blanchard
  • “Life is simultaneously a journey, a destination, and a state of being.” —T.S. Eliot
  • “Unless you have a trained, literate, motivated work force, and give them decision-making authority, you don’t get satisfied customers.” —Anthony Rucci,
  • “I believe the real difference between success and failure in a corporation can very often be traced to the question of how well the organization brings out the great energies and talents of its people.” —Thomas J. Watson, Jr.
  • “The highest reward for a man’s work is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.” —Hal Gooch
  • “Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius. When we are listened to, it creates us,
  • makes us unfold and expand.” —Karl Menninger
  • “Much of what we call management simply gets in the way!” —Peter Drucker
  • “The best thing a leader can do for a Great Group is to allow its members to discover their own greatness.” —Warren Bennis and Ward Biederman
  • “Instead of giving them an order, ask: What would it take to be able to do this yourself? Let’s work together to have that happen.’ This infuses you with authentic power rather than external power.” —Wayne Dyer
  • “People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves, they have the first secret of success.” —Norman Vincent Peale
  • “When individuals are not trusting and trustworthy, empowerment does not work. Control is necessary.” —Stephen Covey
  • “Life does not happen to you; it happens from you.” —Mike Wickett
  • “If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” —Thomas Alva Edison
  • “Of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is coordinating the talents of those who work for us and pointing them toward a certain goal.” —Walt Disney
  • “Nothing happens unless you have a personal transformation.” —W. Edwards Deming
  • “You can buy a pretty good dog, but you can’t buy his tail wagging.” —Thornton Wilder
  • “The question isn’t: ‘What if we train people and they leave?’ The question should be: ‘What if we don’t train people and they stay?’” —Brian Tracy
  • “If people don’t have their own vision, all they can do is ‘sign up’ for someone else’s. The result is compliance, never commitment.” —Peter Senge
  • “How does your work touch the joy in you, and what joy does your work bring out in others?” —Matthew Fox
  • “The best managers start with a radical assumption: Each person’s greatest room for growth is in the area of his greatest strength.” —Marcus Buckingham
  • “The job of a wise teacher is to help another to become.” —Stephen Covey
  • “We cannot become who we need to be by remaining as we are.” —Max DePree
  • “You can have everything in life you want if you can help other people get what they want.” — Zig Zigler
  • “Stop trying to change people. Start trying to help them become more of who they already are.” —Marcus Buckingham
  • “I don’t have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. It’s what you do with it that counts.” —Martin Ritt
  • “There are two causes for all misunderstandings: 1. not saying what you mean, and 2. not doing what you say.” —Angeles Arrien
  • “Be willing to tell your truth—sooner!” —Alan Cohen
  • “Shovel while the piles are small!” —Author unknown
  • “Seek first to understand, then to be understood.” —St. Francis of Assisi
  • “Successful people make progress while unsuccessful people make excuses.” —Brian Tracy
  • “Communicating clearly is like using a phone number—you need all the digits to get through. If you leave a number out or put the area code at the end, see what happens. If communications is a phone number, intent is the area code.” —Rick Brinkman
  • “To achieve things that you have never achieved before, you must be willing to do things that you have never done before.” —Author unknown
  • “Never let your good get in the way of your better.” —Jack Bolen
  • “The key to the ninety-nine is the one— how you treat the one reveals how you regard the 99 because everyone is ultimately one.” —Stephen Covey
  • “If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.” —Thomas Watson, Sr.,
  • “Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” —Winston Churchill
  • “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • “To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.” —Kahlil Gibran
  • “If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple: Know what you are doing, love what you are doing, and believe in what you are doing. It’s just that simple.” —Will Rogers
  • “Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” —Denis Waitley
  • “It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” Somerset Maughan
  • “Even if you’re on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.” —Will Rogers
  • “As our case is new, we must think and act anew.” —Abraham Lincoln
  • “If you do not deal with significant issues of the past, the past will catch up and deal with you” —Eric Allenbaugh
  • “When you’re not learning—someone, somewhere else, is. When you meet—guess who has the advantage?” —Bob Pritchard
  • “The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.” —Dee Hock,
  • “For something new to begin, something must end.” —Kris King
  • “Successful people do what unsuccessful people are unwilling to do.” —Zig Zigler
  • “Learning is not compulsory—neither is survival.” —W. Edwards Deming
  • “I couldn’t wait for success—so I went ahead without it.” —Jonathan Winters
  • “It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change.” —Charles Darwin
  • “A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.” —Abraham Maslow
  • “The future does not get better by hope—it gets better by plan.” —Jim Rohn
  • “The path to success is to take massive, determined action.” —Anthony Robbins
  • “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” —Stephen Covey
  • “If you want to know your future, look at what you are doing in this moment.” —Ancient Tibetan Teaching
  • “I am still learning.” —Michelangelo
  • “Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the tradewinds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” —Mark Twain
  • “Look into the future and ask: What is the future going to look like? What can I do to be in the right spot at the right time? Once it’s obvious to everyone that something is going to be successful, the opportunity is gone. Then anybody can do it!” —Ted Turner
  • “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
  • “The only sustainable advantage comes from out-innovating the competition.” —Tom Peters
  • “Passion is something that starts in the gut, floods the imagination, and comes to reside in the will. Passion is disciplined when it has focus, consistency, persistence, and, above all, integrity.” —James Kouzer and Berry Posner
  • “We cannot be a source of strength unless we nurture our own strength.” —M. Scott Peck
  • “The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.” —Alvin Toffler
  • “You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.” —Henry David Thoreau
  • “SUCCESS – To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.“ —Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.” - Dale Carnegie
  • “Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” -Winston Churchill
  • “There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win.” - Les Brown
  • “Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don’t like to do.” - Albert Gray
  • “For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.” - Aristotle
  • “First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.” - Epictetus
  • “It’s your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude.” - Zig Ziglar
  • “Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.” - Confucius
  • “Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.” - Norman Vincent Peale
  • “I am always doing things I can’t do, that’s how I get to do them.” – Pablo Picasso
  • “The truth of the matter is that there’s nothing you can’t accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you’re absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You’re willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what’s working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way.” -Anthony Robbins
  • “Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.” - Brian Tracy
  • “Build a dream and the dream will build you.” - Robert Schuller
  • “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.” - Henry David Thoreau
  • Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel. —Orison Swett Marden
  • The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary. —Thomas Edison
  • It is a simple task to make things complex, but a complex task to make them simple. —Meyer’s Law
  • Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve. —Wilferd A. Peterson
  • Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets. —Nido Qubein
  • You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be. —Robert Collier
  • No success in public life can compensate for failure in the home. —Benjamin Disraeli
  • Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement. —Claude M. Bristol
  • Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny. —Tryon Edwards
  • 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
  • The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action. —Orison Swett Marden
  • It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. —Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
  • “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
  • “A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with — a man is what he makes of himself.” — Alexander Graham Bell
  • “You will become as large as your controlling desire; or as great as your dominant aspiration.” — James Allen
  • “Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.” — William Moulton Marsden
  • “The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.” — Richard M. Devos
  • “There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.” — Jean de la Bruyere
  • “The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success in larger terms and in more fruitful areas.” —Melvin Powers
  • “Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains… All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.” —Elbert Hubbard
  • “It is a psychological law that whatever we wish to accomplish we must impress on the subjective or subconscious mind.” —Orison Swett Marden
  • “The subjective mind is entirely under the control of the objective mind. With the utmost fidelity, it works to its final consequences whatever the subjective mind impresses upon it.” —Thomas Troward
  • “Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they may be. Don’t merely dream but create!” — Robert Collier
  • “Few things are impossible to diligence and skill; great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.” — Samuel Johnson