Motivquotes 1

MotivQuotes
Volume 1
365 Positive, Motivational quotes one
for each day or study ahead.

“America's greatest strength, and its greatest
weakness, is our belief in second chances, our
belief that we can always start over, that
things can be made better. “
~ Anthony Walton
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"To win without risk is to triumph without glory."
~Pierre Corneille

"If you view all the things that happen to you,
both good and bad, as opportunities, then you
operate out of a higher level of
consciousness."
~ Les Brown

"Here is a test to find whether your mission on
earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't."
~ Richard Bach

"If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
to serve your turn long after they are gone,
and so hold on when there is nothing in you
except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'"
~ Rudyard Kipling

"Love yourself first and everything else falls into
line. You really have to love yourself to get
anything done in this world."
~Lucille Ball

"Meticulous planning will enable everything a
person does to appear spontaneous."
~Mark Caine

"It's simply a matter of doing what you do best
and not worrying about what the other fellow
is going to do."
~ John R. Amos

"It's not hard to make decisions when you know
what your values are."
~ Roy Disney

"Whatever failures I have known, whatever
errors I have committed, whatever follies I
have witnessed in private and public life have
been the consequence of action without
thought."
~ Bernard M. Baruch

"To live is to choose. But to choose well, you
must know who you are and what you stand
for, where you want to go and why you want
to get there."
Kofi Annan

"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard
work, so most people don't recognize them."
~ Ann Landers

"The people who get on in this world are the
people who get up and look for the
circumstances they want, and, if they can't
find them, make them."
~ George Bernard Shaw

"The way to happiness: keep your heart free
from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply,
expect little, give much. Fill your life with love.
Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others.
Do as you would be done by. Try this for a
week and you will be surprised."
~Norman Vincent Peale

“It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the
size of the fight in the dog.”
~ Mark Twain

"There's no such thing as Perfection. But, in
striving for perfection, we can achieve
excellence."
~Vince Lombardi

“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life
are something to do, something to love and
something to hope for.”
~ Joseph Addison

“But I firmly believe that any man's finest hour,
his greatest fulfillment of all he holds dear, is
the moment when he has worked his heart out
in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field
of battle - victorious.”
~ Vince Lombardi

"The secret of joy in work is contained in one
word - excellence. To know how to do
something well is to enjoy it.“
~Pearl S. Buck

"I've always felt it was not up to anyone else to
make me give my best."
~ Akeem Olajuwon

"Watch your manner of speech if you wish to
develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each
day by affirming peaceful, contented and
happy attitudes and your days will tend to be
pleasant and successful."
~ Norman Vincent Peale

"The future is not some place we are going, but
one we are creating. The paths are not to be
found, but made. And the activity of making
them changes both the maker and their
destination."
~John Schaar

"Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you
enjoyed it for a change."
~ Eric Golnik

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

"A certain amount of opposition is a great help to
a man. Kites rise against, not with the wind."
~John Neal

"It is almost as difficult to keep a first class
person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a
fourth class person in a first class job."
~ Paul H. Dunn

"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the
best place for the next moment."
~Oprah Winfrey

"If you are going to achieve excellence in big
things, you develop the habit in little matters.
Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing
attitude."
~Colin Powell

“The best thing you can do is to get good at
being you.”
~Dennis the Menace

"People are always blaming their circumstances
for what they are. I do not believe in
circumstances. The people who get on in this
world, are the people who get up and look for
the circumstances they want, and if they
cannot find them, make them."

“Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't
come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps
remove the barriers that allow people to
motivate themselves.”
~ Herman Cain

“You can’t talk your way out of what you’ve
behaved yourself into.”
~ Stephen Covey

"Don't be afraid of the space between your
dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you
can make it so."
~Belva Davis

"A person without ambition is dead. A man with
ambition but no love is dead. A man with
ambition and love for his blessings here on
earth is ever so alive."
~Pearl Bailey

"Use those talents you have. You will make it.
You will give joy to the world. Take this tip
from nature: The forest would be a very silent
place if no birds sang except those who sang
best."
~Bernard Meltzer

“All successful people men and women are big
dreamers. They imagine what their future
could be, ideal in every respect, and then they
work every day toward their distant vision,
that goal or purpose.”
~ Brian Tracy

“Most people give up just when they're about to
achieve success. They quit on the one yard
line. They give up at the last minute of the
game, one foot from a winning touchdown.”
~ H. Ross Perot

"In life, as in football, you won't go far unless
you know where the goalposts are."
~ Arnold H. Glasgow

“It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even
the most victorious life. The human spirit is
never finished when it is defeated... it is
finished when it surrenders.”
~ Ben Stein

"The secret of your future is hidden in your daily
routine."
~ Mike Murdock

"The real contest is always between what you've
done and what you're capable of doing. You
measure yourself against yourself and nobody
else."
~ Geoffrey Gaberino

"The only way of discovering the limits of the
possible is to venture a little way past them
into the impossible."
~Arthur C. Clarke

“Once you know where you're going, focus on
the only step you can control -- the one
immediately in front of you.”
~ E.R. Haas

"Ideas shape the course of history."
~ John Maynard Keynes

"Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions
are made from something they have deep
inside them -- a desire, a dream, a vision."
~ Muhammad Ali

"All the works of man have their origin in
creative fantasy. What right have we then to
deprecate imagination."
~ Carl Jung

"In the long run, we shape our lives, and we
shape ourselves. The process never ends until
we die. And the choices we make are
ultimately our own responsibility."
~Eleanor Roosevelt

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result
of preparation, hard work, learning from
failure."
~ Colin Powell

"Be kind whenever possible...It is always
possible."
~ Dalai Lama

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

"Let your imagination release your imprisoned
possibilities."
~ Robert H. Schuller

"Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable
than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the
most sacred excellences and endowments of
the human mind."
~ Cicero

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of
it is seldom known until it is lost."
~ Charles Caleb Colton

"It is difficulties that give birth to miracles."
~ Dr. Sharpe

"It matters not what a person is born, but who
they choose to be."
~Joanne Kathleen Rowling

“You can do anything if you have enthusiasm.
Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes
rise to the stars. With it, there is
accomplishment. Without it there are only
alibis.”
~ Henry Ford

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

"Unless you try to do something beyond what
you have already mastered, you will never
grow."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The price of success is hard work, dedication to
the job at hand, and the determination that
whether we win or lose, we have applied the
best of ourselves to the task at hand.”
~Vince Lombardi

"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others,
but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our
own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our
today."
~ Stewart B. Johnson

"If you can't, you must. If you must, you can."
~Anthony Robbins

"Believe you can do it. Believing something can
be done puts your mind to work for you and
helps you find ways to do it."
~George Shinn

“One cannot get through life without pain...
What we can do is choose how to use the pain
life presents to us.”
~ Bernie Siegel

“You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by
the way he eats jelly beans.”
~ Ronald Reagan

“There are two kinds of people, those who do the
work and those who take the credit. Try to be
in the first group; there is less competition
there.”
~Indira Gandhi

“Three rules of work: Out of clutter, find
simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the
middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
~Albert Einstein

“Wisdom consists of the anticipation of
consequences.“
~ Norman Cousins

"All great masters are chiefly distinguished by
the power of adding a second, a third, and
perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line.
Many a person has taken the first step. With
every additional step you enhance immensely
the value of your first."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The quality of a person's life is in direct
proportion to their commitment to excellence,
regardless of their chosen field of endeavor."
~Vince Lombardi

"The man who removes a mountain begins by
carrying away small stones."
~William Faulkner

“We may be very busy, we may be very efficient,
but we will also be truly effective only when
we begin with the end in mind.”
~ Stephen Covey

“Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-
performing men and women. Almost any
decision is better than no decision at all.”
~ Brian Tracy

"The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's
self."
~Phillip James Bailey

“Uttering a word is like striking a note on the
keyboard of the imagination.”
~Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Formula for success: under promise and over
deliver”
~Tom Peters

“ You are the only person in all of creation that
has the authority to give anyone else
permission to give you a bad day. Just don’t
give them permission.”
~ Wayne C. Church

"The world stands aside to let anyone pass who
knows where he is going."
~David Starr Jordan

“Happiness is the only good. The time to be
happy is now. The place to be happy is here.
The way to be happy is to make others so.”
~ Robert G. Ingersoll

“Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you
ever see bird that had the blues? One reason
why birds and horses are not unhappy is
because they are not trying to impress other
birds and horses.”
~ Dale Carnegie

"Character cannot be developed in ease and
quiet. Only through experience of trial and
suffering can the soul be strengthened,
ambition inspired, and success achieved."
~Helen Keller

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"Do not anticipate trouble or worry about
what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."
~ Benjamin Franklin
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“Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
~Albert Camus

Opportunity?
“I'm shinin' all my Dad's left shoes for nothin' !
Then I'll charge him a dime each to do the
right ones.”
~ Dennis the Menace

" Only those who will risk going too far
can possibly find out how far one can go."
~T.S. Eliot

" The best way to predict the future is to create
it!"
~Peter Drucker

" There is no self-made man. You will reach your
goals only with the help of others."
~George Shinn

" My interest is in the future, because I'm going
to be spending the rest of my life there."
~Charles Kettering

" It is amazing what can be accomplished, when
you don't care who gets the credit.“
~ President Harry Truman

" In any moment of decision, the best thing you
can do is the right thing.
The worst thing you can do is nothing."
~Theodore Roosevelt

“Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are
responsible for almost all the economic growth
in the United States.”
~ Ronald Reagan

"Be changed and the world around you begins to
change.“
~ Dr. Gerald Epstein

“Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a
rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you.”
~Zig Ziglar

"Remember, no matter where you go, there you
are."
~Earl Mac Rauch

“We gain strength, and courage, and confidence
by each experience in which we really stop to
look fear in the face ... we must do that which
we think we cannot.”
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

"If a window of opportunity appears,
don't pull the shade."
~Tom Peters

“There are three types of people in this world:
those who make things happen, those who
watch things happen and those who wonder
what happened. We all have a choice. You can
decide which type of person you want to be. I
have always chosen to be in the first group.”
~ Mary Kay Ash

"There is no better time than right now to be
happy."
~Wayne C. Church

"Never place a period where God has placed a
comma."
~Gracie Allen

"Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is
needed to convert a tiresome duty into an
interesting opportunity."
~ Alberta Flanders

"Wherever we look upon this earth, the
opportunities take shape within the problems."
~ Nelson Rockefeller

"Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to
stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring
fresh experience and create excitement in life.
Certainly it is worth the risk."
~Leo Buscaglia

"The most valuable thing you can make is a
mistake - you can't learn anything from being
perfect."
~Adam Osborne

"Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities.
Seize common occasions and make them
great. Weak people wait for opportunities;
strong people make them.“
~ Orison Swett Marden

"Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only
of standing still."
~Chinese Proverb

“It's kind of fun to do the impossible.”
~ Walt Disney

"The people who succeed are the efficient few.
They are the few who have the ambition and
will power to develop themselves."
~ Herbert N. Casson

"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is.
Treat a man as he should be, and he will
become what he could be."

"Chance favors the prepared mind."
~ Louis Pasteur

“Football is like life - it requires perseverance,
self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication
and respect for authority.”
~ Vince Lombardi

"We are continually faced with great
opportunities which are brilliantly disguised as
unsolvable problems."
~Margaret Mead

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful
beyond measure.”
~Nelson Mandela

“If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your
personal and career life, you must become a
worthwhile person in your own self-
development.”
~ Brian Tracy

"If there was nothing wrong in the world there
wouldn't be anything for us to do."
~George Bernard Shaw

"Most of us are just about as happy as we make
up our minds to be."
~William Adams

"Always take the high road."
~John Maxwell

“Those who don't understand determination call
determination stubbornness or too driven. To
be determined is to see it through!”
~ Catherine Pulsifer

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody
else."
~Judy Garland

"Ability is what you're capable of doing.
Motivation determines what you do. Attitude
determines how well you do it."
~ Lou Holtz

“Building a better you is the first step to
building a better America”
~ Zig Ziglar

"Always dream and shoot higher than you know
you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than your
contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself."
~William Faulkner

"Big jobs usually go to those who prove their
ability to outgrow small ones."

"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in
what they are doing."
~ Dale Carnegie

"It is our duty as men and women to proceed as
though the limits of our abilities do not exist."
~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

"What light is to the eyes, what air is to the
lungs, what love is to the heart, liberty is to
the soul of man."
~Robert G. Ingersoll

"The goal you set must be challenging. At the
same time, it should be realistic and
attainable, not impossible to reach. It should
be challenging enough to make you stretch,
but not so far that you break."
~ Rick Hansen

“Two little words that can make the difference:
START NOW.“
~Mary C. Crowley

“Jump into the middle of things, get your hands
dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for
the stars.”
~Ben Stein

“Seek first to understand, then to be
understood”
~ Stephen Covey

“Do not wait; the time will never be "just right."
Start where you stand, and work with
whatever tools you may have at your
command, and better tools will be found as
you go along.”
~ Napoleon Hill

"For every mountain there is a miracle."

"People with goals succeed because
they know where they’re going."
~ Earl Nightingale

“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine
your altitude”
~ Zig Ziglar

"Stand up to your obstacles and do something
about them. You will find that they haven't
half the strength you think they have."

"A positive attitude may not solve all your
problems, but it will annoy enough people to
make it worth the effort!"
~ Herm Albright

"People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing - that's why we
recommend it daily."
~Zig Ziglar

“I have always thought the actions of men the
best interpreters of their thoughts.”
~John Locke

“Don't be too timid and squeamish about your
actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better.”

"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of
surmounting difficulties, passing from one step
of success to another, forming new wishes and
seeing them gratified."
~ Samuel Johnson

“Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over
obstacles and adds significance to all you do.”

“When you have confidence, you can have a lot
of fun. And when you have fun, you can do
amazing things.”
~ Joe Namath

"There are those that look at things the way they
are, and ask why? I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not."
~ Robert F. Kennedy

"We are often disappointed because of our
expectations. Only when you learn to see
circumstances as they truly are can you
become the architect of improvement."
~ Greg Henry Quinn

“Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't
know enough. If we understood enough, we
would never be afraid.”
~Earl Nightingale

“Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are
the window through which you must see the
world.”
~George Bernard Shaw

“When the world says, ‘Give up,’
Hope whispers, ‘Try it one more time.’"
~Author Unknown

“Life consists not in holding good cards but in
playing those you hold well.”
~Josh Billings

“Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without
it nothing great was ever achieved.”

“Things which matter most must never be at the
mercy of things which matter least."
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“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. Never yield to force.
Never yield to the apparently overwhelming
might of the enemy.”
~Winston Churchill

“Just as your car runs more smoothly and
requires less energy to go faster and farther
when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you
perform better when your thoughts, feelings,
emotions, goals, and values are in balance.
~ Brian Tracy

"When your heart is in your dream, no request is
too extreme."
~ Jiminy Cricket

"Pretend that every single person you meet has a
sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make
me feel important.' Not only will you succeed
in sales, you will succeed in life."
~Mary Kay Ash

"It is not the strongest of the species that
survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one
most responsive to change."
~ Charles Darwin

“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned,
earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the
spiritual experience of living every minute with
love, grace and gratitude.”
~ Denis Waitley

"The universe is full of magical things patiently
waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
~ Eden Phillpotts

"I have always been delighted at the prospect of
a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with
perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere
behind the morning."
~J. B. Priestley

"Successful people are successful because they
form the habits of doing those things that
failures don't like to do."
~ Albert Gray

"In truth, people can generally make time for
what they choose to do; it is not really the
time but the will that is lacking."
~ Sir John Lubbock

"Success... it's what you do with what you've
got."
~ Leroy Van Dyke

"Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take
hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the
handle of faith."
~ Henry Ward Beecher

"When I am delivering my very best, then that is
when I feel successful."
~ Art Fettig

“Don't limit yourself. Many people limit
themselves to what they think they can do.
You can go as far as you mind lets you. What
you believe, you can achieve.”
~ Mary Kay Ash

"Joy is what happens to us when we allow
ourselves to recognize how good things really
are."
~ Marianne Williamson

"You can get everything in life you want if you
will just help enough other people get what
they want."
~Zig Ziglar

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because
those who mind don't matter and those who
matter don't mind."
~ Dr. Suess

"I hope that my achievements in life shall be
these -- that I will have fought for what was
right and fair, that I will have risked for that
which mattered, and that I will have given
help to those who were in need... and that I
will have left the earth a better place for what
I've done and who I've been."
~ C. Everett Hoppe

"There is no end. There is no beginning. There is
only the infinite passion of life."
~ Frederico Fellini

"Everyone has inside of him a piece of good
news. The good news is that you don't know
how great you can be! How much you can love!
What you can accomplish! And what your
potential is!"
~Anne Frank

"The only thing that stands between you and
what you want from life is simply the will to
pursue it and the faith to believe it is possible."
~Richard DeVos

“There is a distinction between achievement and
success. Achievement is the knowledge that
you have studied and worked hard and done
the best that is in you. Success is being praised
by others. That is nice but not as important or
satisfying. Always aim for achievement and
forget about success."
~ Helen Hayes

"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire
universe, deserve your love and affection."
~Buddha

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized, they
die when neglected."
~ John Wicker

“Every one minute you spend in planning will
save you at least three minutes in execution.”
~ Crawford Greenwald

"When you feel that you have reached the end
and that you cannot go one step further, when
life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a
wonderful opportunity to start all over again,
to turn over a new page."
~ Eileen Caddy

“The greatest gift that you can give to others is
the gift of unconditional love and acceptance."
~ Brian Tracy

"Failure will never overtake me if my
determination to succeed is strong enough."
~ Og Mandino

"The law of cause and effect: If you do what
other successful people do, you will eventually
get the results that other successful people
get."
~ Brian Tracy

"It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich
according to what he is, not according to what
he has."

“Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied
at the end. It's not a day when you lounge
around doing nothing; it's when you've had
everything to do, and you've done it.”
~ Lord Acton

“I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to
grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain
of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts
to become the highest mountain of all and I
will strain my potential until it cries for
mercy.”
~ Og Mandino

"Real generosity is doing something nice for
someone who will never find out."
~ Frank A. Clark

“No one lives long enough to learn everything
they need to learn starting from scratch. To be
successful, we absolutely, positively have to
find people who have already paid the price to
learn the things that we need to learn to
achieve our goals.”
~ Brian Tracy

“Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I
am what I am today because of the choices I
made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I
choose otherwise”
~ Stephen Covey

“ If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would
have painted the Sistine floor”
~ Neil Simon

“Personal relationships are the fertile soil from
which all advancement, all success, all
achievement in real life grows.”
~ Ben Stein

“The foundation stones for a balanced success
are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love
and loyalty.”
~ Zig Ziglar

"Happiness is that state of consciousness which
proceeds from the achievement of one's
values."
~ Ayn Rand

"The only freedom which deserves the name is
that of pursuing our own good, in our own
way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive
others of theirs, or impede their efforts to
obtain it."
~ John Stuart Mill

"Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they
are made just like anything else, through hard
work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to
achieve that goal, or any goal."
~ Vince Lombardi

"Success is focusing the full power of all you are
on what you have a burning desire to achieve."
~ Wilfred Peterson

"The first step to getting the things you want out
of life is this: Decide what you want."
~ Ben Stein

“Success seems to be connected to action.
Successful people keep moving. They make
mistakes, but they don't quit.”
~ Conrad Hilton

"All that you need in order to have total
happiness, fulfillment, and love in your life you
already have right now, whoever you are,
wherever you are."
~ Dr. Wayne Dyer

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more
honorable, but more useful than a life spent
doing nothing."

"Apply yourself. Get all the education you can,
but then, by God, do something. Don't just
stand there, make it happen."
~ Lee Iacocca

"Just when the caterpillar thought the world was
over, it became a butterfly."
~ Unknown

"If you look at what you have in life, you'll
always have more. If you look at what you
don't have in life, you'll never have enough."
~ Oprah Winfrey

"The more you see yourself as what you'd like to
become, and act as if what you want is already
there, the more you'll activate those dormant
forces that will collaborate to transform your
dream into your reality."
~ Dr. Wayne Dyer

“The happiness of your life depends on the
quality of your thoughts.”
~ Marcus A. Antoninus

"Opportunity dances with those who are already
on the dance floor."
~ Jackson Brown

“You were born to win, but to be a winner, you
must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect
to win.”
~ Zig Ziglar

"There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less than the one
you are capable of living."
~ Nelson Mandela

"Today you are You, that is truer than true. There
is no one alive who is Youer than You."
~ Dr. Seuss

"There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a
living at what you love. There is only a scarcity
of resolve to make it happen."
Dr. Wayne Dyer

“To believe your own thought, to believe that
what is true for you in your private heart is
true for all men - that is genius.”

"The key that unlocks energy is desire. It's also
the key to a long and interesting life. If we
expect to create any drive, any real force
within ourselves, we have to get excited."
~ Earl Nightingale

"Your only limitations are those you set up in
your mind, or permit others to set up for you."
~ Og Mandino

“It was character that got us out of bed,
commitment that moved us into action, and
discipline that enabled us to follow through.”
~ Zig Ziglar

"We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to
renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the
deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the
perennial sense that life is miracle and magic."
~ E. Merrill Root

“Don't be afraid to give your best to what
seemingly are small jobs. Every time you
conquer one it makes you that much
stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big
ones will tend to take care of themselves.”
~ Dale Carnegie

"Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every
time I live, I get an education."
Burk Hudson

“Individual commitment to a group effort - that
is what makes a team work, a company work,
a society work, a civilization work.”
~ Vince Lombardi

“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short
races one after another.”
~ Walter Elliott

“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in
rising up every time we fail.”

“Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his
rock, perhaps a hundred times without as
much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the
hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and
I know it was not the last blow that did it, but
all that had gone before.”
~Jacob A. Riis

"You have to leave the city of your comfort and
go into the wilderness of your intuition. What
you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll
discover is yourself."
~ Alan Alda

"Love the moment, and the energy of that
moment will spread beyond all boundaries."
~ Corita Kent

"The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line
between the known and unknown, who is
unafraid of failure, will succeed."
~ Gordon Parks

"Striving for excellence motivates you; striving
for perfection is demoralizing."
~ Harriet Braiker

"Belief in yourself, belief in your abilities, will
override fear almost every time. The only thing
we are afraid of is what we are capable of
accomplishing."
~ Rich DiGirolamo

"If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for
circumstances or other people to create
perspective expanding experiences. You can
consciously create your own."
~ Stephen Covey

"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 might be. Don't merely dream -
- but create!"
~ Robert Collier

“Ya wanna know what makes me sad ? The last
ice cream truck of summer.”
~ Dennis the Menace

“The happiest people in the world are those who
feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and
this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total
responsibility for every part of their life.”
~ Brian Tracy

“So long as there is breath in me, that long I will
persist. For now I know one of the greatest
principles on success; if I persist long enough I
will win.”
~ Og Mandino

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do,
and liking how you do it."
~ Maya Angelou

"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy,
wealthy, and wise."
~ Benjamin Franklin

“I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do
everything, but still I can do something; And
because I cannot do everything I will not
refuse to do the something that I can do.”
~ Helen Keller

“You are forgiven for your happiness and your
successes only if you generously consent to
share them.“
~ Albert Camus

"Goals are not only absolutely necessary to
motivate us. They are essential to really keep
us alive."

"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You
imagine what you desire; you will what you
imagine; and at last you create what you will."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge.
For knowledge is limited to all we now know
and understand, while imagination embraces
the entire world, and all there ever will be to
know and understand."
~ Albert Einstein

"First comes thought; then organization of that
thought into ideas and plans; then
transformation of those plans into reality. The
beginning, as you will observe, is in your
imagination."
~ Napoleon Hill

"It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good
AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the
stuff rolled together that makes life worth
livin'."
~ Takayuki Ikkaku

“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them
what to do and they will surprise you with
their ingenuity. “
~ General George S. Patton

"Change before you have to."
~ Jack Welch

“Perseverance is a great element of success; if
you only knock long enough and loud enough
at the gate you are sure to wake up
somebody.”
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act,
or thought, or word, that raises us above
ourselves."
~ Arthur P. Stanley

“When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the
way, implicitly and unquestionably.”
~Walt Disney

"The greatest pollution problem we face today is
negativity. Eliminate the negative attitude and
believe you can do anything. Replace 'if I can,
I hope, maybe' with 'I can, I will, I must."
~ Mary Kay Ash

"You can conquer almost any fear if you will only
make up your mind to do so. For remember,
fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the
mind."
~ Dale Carnegie

"If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be
like this forever. Is that good news?"
~ Dr. Robert Anthony

"There are moments that, when captured, will
redefine who you are forever."
~ Matthew C. Horne

"Remind yourself regularly that you are better than
you think you are. Successful people are not
superhuman. Success does not require a super-
intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about
success. And success isn't based on luck.
Successful people are just ordinary folks who
have developed belief in themselves and what
they do. Never -- yes, never -- sell yourself short.“
~ David J. Schwartz

"People are like stained-glass windows. They
sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but
when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is
revealed only if there is a light from within."
~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

"It is those who have this imperative demand for
the best in their natures, and who will accept
nothing short of it, that holds the banners of
progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for
others."
~ Orison Swett Marden

"Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it
is you who will get you where you want to go,
no one else."
~ Les Brown

"The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can
envision the fact that you can do something,
you can do it, as long as you really believe 100
percent.“
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

"To be successful, you must decide exactly what
you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay
the price to get it."
~ Bunker Hunt

"You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed
in the costume of failure.“
~ Zig Ziglar

"We all have ability. The difference is how we
use it."
~ Stevie Wonder

"I have been impressed with the urgency of
doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Being willing is not enough; we must do.
~ Leonardo da Vinci

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to
succeed is more important than any one
thing."
~ Abraham Lincoln

"Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle
of a plan, in which we must fervently believe,
and upon which we must vigorously act. There
is no other route to success."
~ Stephen A. Brennan

"I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my
career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26
occasions I have been entrusted to take the
game winning shot... and I missed. I have
failed over and over and over again in my life.
And that's precisely why I succeed."
~ Michael Jordan

"Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will
recognize them chiefly by their attitudes."
~ Charles Prestwich Scott

"Nowhere can man find a quieter or more
untroubled retreat than in his own soul."
~ Marcus Aurelius

"Anything that is wasted effort represents
wasted time. The best management of our
time thus becomes linked inseparably with the
best utilization of our efforts."
~ Ted W. Engstrom

"Efficiency is doing better what is already being
done. Effectiveness is deciding what to do
better."
~ Peter F. Drucker

“The more credit you give away, the more will
come back to you. The more you help others,
the more they will want to help you.”
~ Brian Tracy

"Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a
secret power working twenty-four hours a day,
for good or bad. It is of paramount importance
that we know how to harness and control this
great force."
~Tom Blandi

"The elevator to success is out of order. You'll
have to use the stairs... one step at a time."
~ Joe Girard

“When you're going down the wrong road, you
don't need motivation to speed up. You need a
clear vision to turn you around.“
~ E.R.Haas

"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities!
Without a humble but reasonable confidence
in your own powers you cannot be successful
or happy."

"The idea is to make decisions and act on them --
to decide what is important to accomplish, to
decide how something can best be
accomplished, to find time to work at it and to
get it done."
~ Karen Kakascik

"Every successful man I have heard of has done
the best he could with conditions as he found
them..."
~ Edgar Watson Howe

“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a
series of small things brought together.”
~ Vincent Van Gogh

"The finest gift you can give anyone is
encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the
encouragement they need to grow to their full
potential. If everyone received the
encouragement they need to grow, the genius in
most everyone would blossom and the world
would produce abundance beyond the wildest
dreams.
~Sidney Madwed

"Words of encouragement fan the spark of
genius into the flame of achievement."
~ Wilfred A. Peterson

"One important key to success is self-
confidence. An important key to self-
confidence is preparation."
~ Arthur Ashe

"The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and
the other to think with. Success depends on
which one we use the most."
~ Ann Landers

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

"Life has no limitations, except the ones you
make."
~ Les Brown

“Take your time today in making well-informed
decisions, but once your decision is made, take
action to make it happen -- NOW! “
~ E. R. Haas

“Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead
dog, the scenery never changes."
~ Lew Gizzard

"Without passion people are a mere latent force
and possibility, like the flint which awaits the
shock of the iron before it can give forth its
spark."
~ Henri Frederic Amiel

"People wait for opportunity to come along...yet
it is there every morning."
~ Dennis the Menace

“The difference between the impossible and the
possible lies in a person's determination.”
~ Tommy Lasorda

“He's nice to people 'n animals... but you oughta
hear him talkin' to a golf ball ! “
~ Dennis the Menace

"Without AMBITION one starts nothing. Without
WORK one finishes nothing. The prize will NOT
be sent to you. You have to WIN it. The man
who knows HOW will always have a job. The
man who also knows WHY will always be his
boss.

"The beginning is the most important part of the
work."
~ Plato

"Be around people who can keep your energy
and inspiration high. While you can make
progress alone, it's so much easier when you
have support.”
~ Dr. Joe Vitale

"If you wish the world to become loving and
compassionate, become loving and
compassionate yourself. If you wish to
diminish fear in the world, diminish your own.
These are the gifts that you can give."
~ Gary Zukav

"If you won't be better tomorrow than you were
today, then what do you need tomorrow for?"
~ Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav

"If, before going to bed every night, you will tear
a page from the calendar, and remark, "there
goes another day of my life, never to return,"
you will become time conscious."
~ A. B. Zu Tavern

"There is no security on this earth, there is only
opportunity."
~ General Douglas MacArthur

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what
you have not; remember that what you now
have was once among the things you only
hoped for."
~ Epicurus

"If we only knew that we could have anything
we wanted we would set more goals."
~ Earl Nightingale

"A winner is someone who recognizes his God-
given talents, works his tail off to develop
them into skills, and uses these skills to
accomplish his goals."
~ Larry Bird

“You can’t build a reputation on what you're
going to do.”
~ Henry Ford

"You will never FIND time for anything. If you
want time, you must MAKE it."
~ Charles Bixton

“Those people who develop the ability to
continuously acquire new and better forms of
knowledge that they can apply to their work
and to their lives will be the movers and
shakers in our society for the indefinite
future.”
~ Brian Tracy

"It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The
chain of destiny can only be grasped one link
at a time."
~ Sir Winston Churchill

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts.
To believe in the heroic makes heroes."
~ Benjamin Disraeli

"Once you wake up thought in a man,
you can never put it to sleep again."
~ Zora Neale Hurston

"Part of being a champ is acting like a champ.
You have to learn how to win and not run
away when you lose. Everyone has bad
stretches and real successes. Either way, you
have to be careful not to lose your confidence
or get too confident."
~ Nancy Kerrigan

"If your dream is a big dream, and if you want
your life to work on the high level that you say
you do, there's no way around doing the work
it takes to get you there."
~ Joyce Chapman

"Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a
leader's success. He can accomplish nothing
unless he can communicate effectively."
~ Norman Allen

"Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
~ Frank Outlaw

"The person without a purpose is like a ship
without a rudder—waif, a nothing, a no man.
Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw
such strength of mind and muscle into your
work as God has given you."
~ Thomas Carlyle

"It's how you deal with failure that determines
how you achieve success."
~ David Feherty

"Your goals are the road maps that guide you
and show you what is possible for your life."
~ Les Brown

“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase
perfection we can catch excellence.”
~ Vince Lombardi

"Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You
can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but
morning comes. Keep hope alive."
~ Jesse Jackson

"Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great
if given with affection.”
~ Pindar

"It has never been, and never will be, easy work!
But the road that is built in hope is more
pleasant to the traveler than the road built in
despair, even though they both lead to the
same destination."
~ Marion Zimmer Bradley

"Whether you think you can or whether you
think you can't, you're right!"
~ Henry Ford

“Always render more and better service than is
expected of you, no matter what your task
may be. “
~ Og Mandino

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
~ Aristotle

"Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize
all its forces to your aid. But the first essential
is that you begin. Once the battle is started, all
that is within and without you will come to
your assistance."
~ Robert Collier

"Our attitude toward life determines life's
attitude towards us."
~ Earl Nightingale

"Nothing in the world can take the place of
persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more
common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a
proverb. Education alone will not; the world is
full of educated derelicts. Persistence and
determination alone are omnipotent."
~ Calvin Coolidge, 30th President

"Action is the real measure of intelligence."
~ Napoleon Hill

"The principle is competing against yourself. It's
about self improvement, about being better
than you were the day before."
~ Steve Young

“Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and
work at it until it's done right.”
~Walt Disney

"God doesn't look at how much we do, but with
how much love we do it."
~ Mother Teresa

"A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the
strength to persevere and endure in spite of
overwhelming obstacles."
~ Christopher Reeve

"Other people's opinion of you does not have to
become your reality."
~ Les Brown

“Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll
die tomorrow.”
~ James Dean

“A dream is your creative vision for your life in
the future. You must break out of your current
comfort zone and become comfortable with
the unfamiliar and the unknown.”
~ Denis Waitley

“The person who knows one thing and does it
better than anyone else, even if it only be the
art of raising lentils, receives the crown he
merits. If he raises all his energy to that end,
he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded
as such.”
~ Og Mandino

“Work hard and become a leader; be lazy and
never succeed.”
~ Proverbs 12:24

“I have found that being honest is the best
technique I can use. Right up front, tell people
what you're trying to accomplish and what
you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.”
~Lee Iacocca

“You can become an even more excellent person
by constantly setting higher and higher
standards for yourself and then by doing
everything possible to live up to those
standards.”
~ Brian Tracy

“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what
men say. I just watch what they do.”
~ Andrew Carnegie

“The stories of past courage... can offer hope,
they can provide inspiration. But they cannot
supply courage itself. For this each man must
look into his own soul.”
~ John F. Kennedy

“Courage is the first of human qualities, because
it is the quality which guarantees all others.”
~ Sir Winston Churchill

“Dreaming is an act of pure imagination,
attesting in all men a creative power, which, if
it were available in waking, would make every
man a Dante or a Shakespeare.
“
~ H.F. Hedge

"People never improve unless they look to some
standard or example higher or better than
themselves."
~ Tryon Edwards

“The great accomplishments of man have
resulted from the transmission of ideas and
enthusiasm.”
~ Thomas J. Watson, Sr

“When upon life's billows you are tempest
tossed, When you are discouraged, thinking all
is lost, Count your many blessings, name them
one by one, And it will surprise you what the
Lord hath done. ”
~Johnson Oatman

“Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and
the rule of law under God is acknowledged.”
~ Ronald Reagan

“If you're going to be thinking, you may as well
think big.”
~ Donald Trump

“I studied the lives of great men and famous
women, and I found that the men and women
who got to the top were those who did the
jobs they had in hand, with everything they
had of energy and enthusiasm.”
~ Henry Truman

"Do something for somebody every day for which
you do not get paid.“
~ Albert Schweitzer

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is
what keeps you going.”
~ Jim Ryun

“Desire is the starting point of all achievement,
not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating
desire which transcends everything.“
~ Napoleon Hill

"Each new hour holds new chances, for new
beginnings. The horizon move forward,
offering you space to place new steps of
change.”
~ Maya Angelou

“You've got to sing like you don't need the
money, love like you'll never get hurt. You've
got to dance like no one is watching. It's gotta
come from the heart, if you want it to work.”
~ Susannah Clark

“Start by doing what's necessary, then what's
possible, and suddenly you are doing the
impossible.”
~ St. Francis of Assisi

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil
is for good men to do nothing.”
~ Edmund Burke

"Chance can allow you to accomplish a goal
every once in a while, but consistent
achievement happens only if you love what
you are doing."
~ Bart Conner

"You learn in life that the only person you can
really correct and change is yourself."
~ Katharine Hepburn

“If you have a great ambition, take as big a step
as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The
step may only be a tiny one, but trust that it
may be the largest one possible for now."
~ Mildred Mcafee

"We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and
the pattern which was weaving when the sun
went down is weaving when it comes up in the
morning."

“When we are motivated by goals that have deep
meaning, by dreams that need completion, by
pure love that needs expressing, then we truly
live life.”
~ Greg Anderson

“My philosophy of life is that if we make up our
mind what we are going to make of our lives,
then work hard toward that goal, we never
lose - somehow we win out”
~ Ronald Reagan

"Life's real failure is when you do not realize how
close you were to success when you gave up."
~ Anonymous

“You can't hit a home run unless you step up to
the plate. You can't catch a fish unless you put
your line in the water. You can't reach your
goals if you don't try.”
~ Kathy Seligman

"If you want to achieve excellence, you can get
there today. Simply stop doing less than
excellent work."
~ Thomas J. Watson

“A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you
believe in yourself and have the courage, the
determination, the dedication, the competitive
drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little
things in life and pay the price for the things
that are worthwhile, it can be done.”
~ Vince Lombardi

“Surround yourself with the best people you can
find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as
long as the policy you've decided upon is being
carried out.”
~ Ronald Reagan

"Some men have thousands of reasons why they
cannot do what they want to, when all they
need is one reason why they can."
~ Willis Whitney

"Determine what specific goal you want to
achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its
attainment with unswerving singleness of
purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader.“
~ Paul J. Meyer

“The only limit to our realization of
tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The odds of hitting your target go up
dramatically when you aim at it."
~ Mal Pancoast

"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest
upon, but only to hold a man's foot long
enough to enable him to put the other
somewhat higher."
~ Thomas Henry Huxley

"Good, better, best; never let it rest till your good
is better and your better is best."
~ Anonymous

"Not all who wander are lost."
~ J. R. R. Tolkien

"Do all the good you can, by all the means you
can, in all the ways you can, in all the places
you can, at all the times you can, to all the
people you can, as long as ever you can."
~ John Wesley

"The difference between a successful person and
others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of
knowledge, but rather a lack of will."
~ Vince Lombardi

"If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it."
~ Ronnie Lott

"We change the world not by what we say or do,
but as a consequence of what we have
become."
~ Dr. David Hawkins

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win
glorious triumphs, even though checkered by
failure, than to take rank with those poor
spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much,
because they live in the gray twilight that
knows neither victory nor defeat."
~ Teddy Roosevelt

“Success means fulfilling your own dreams,
singing your own song, dancing your own
dance, creating from your heart and enjoying
the journey, trusting that whatever happens, it
will be OK. Creating your own adventure!"
~ Elana Lindquist

This is the end of a year of good, positive, sometimes
funny, certainly motivational quotes collected to make
every day a great day.
This is but the first of a three volume set. If you don’t have
it , buy it now. There are no duplicates between the
three files. Contact wchurchcpp@cox.net to order.
God Bless you!!!
~ Wayne C. Church

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