Discovery consists in seeing what everybody else has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.
-Albert Szent-Gy-rgi
Trust rather than fear, encouragement rather than force, cooperation rather than competition, challenge rather than threat, recognition rather than praise, self-discipline rather than punishment, and satisfaction rather than reward.
-Arthur Combs
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Those who say it cannot be done shouldn’t interrupt the people doing it.
You don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.
-Les Brown
Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could do only a little.
-Edmund Burke
A stumble may prevent a fall.
-English Proverb
Never mistake motion for action.
-Ernest Hemingway
When you hire people who are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.
-RH Grant
Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-Vince Lombardi
Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands-but, like seafaring men on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, reach your destiny.
-Carl Schurz
Whether you think you can or think you can’t - you are right.
-Henry Ford
Winner vs. Loser: The winner - is always part of the answer; the loser - is always part of the problem; the winner - always has a program; the loser - always has an excuse; the winner - says let me do it for you; the loser - says that’s not my job; the winner - sees an answer to every problem; the loser- sees a problem for every answer; the winner- sees a green near every sandtrap; the loser - sees two or three sand traps near every green; the winner - says it may be difficult but it’s possible; the loser - says it may be possible but it’s too difficult.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
-Thomas Alva Edison
In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
-Eric Butterworth
A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.
-Richard Nixon
Learn to create not compete.
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
-Will Rogers
You see things as they are and ask “why?” I dream things as they never were and ask “why not?”
-George Bernard Shaw
It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
-Eric Hoffer
To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?
-Katherine Graham
Entrepreneur: A high rolling risk-taker who would rather be a spectacular failure than a dismal success.
-Jim Fisk & Robert Barron
Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.
-David Lloyd George
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
The trouble with using experience as a guide is that the final exam often comes first and then the lesson.
The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
-Bill Cosby
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.
-Ann Landers
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
-Napoleaon Hill
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down.
-Mary Pickford
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
Begin with the end in mind.
Success is measured by what you had to give up to get there.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
-Thomas A. Edison
Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that's where you will find success."
– Thomas J. Watson
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
-Mahatma Gandhi
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
-Aristotle
Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to start where he was.
-Lao-Tzu
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
-Confucius
A ship in the harbor is safe...but that's not what ships were made for.
Too many people are ready to carry the stool when the piano needs to be moved.
-Anonymous
The wealthy person is not the one who has the most but the one who needs the least.
If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, “I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.”
-Ann Landers
