“Goals are dreams we convert to plans and take action to fulfill.” – Zig Ziglar

“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.

“Commitment   is   that   turning point   in your   life when you seize  the moment  and convert it into an opportunity to alter your destiny.” – Denis Waitley

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle

“Live out of your imagination, not your history.” – Stephen Covey

“Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.” – Zig Ziglar

“A dream is a wish your heart makes.” – Walt Disney

“Where like is, there God is also.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“When we look for the excellent in others, we learn the best in ourselves.” – Martin Walsh

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Learn.
Mark Twain

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt

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“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”- General Dwight D. Eisenhower

”A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must be undaunted when the going gets tough.” – Ronald Reagan

“Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.”- General George S. Patton

”The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.” – Ray Kroc

”It is not honest to question of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.” – Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

”He who has never learned to obey cannot be a excellent commander.”- Aristotle

“The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.” – Walter Lippmann, 1889-1974

“I have to follow them. I am their leader.”- Alexandre-Auguste Ledru-Rollin, Leader of the French Revolution of 1848

”People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those people who sit still and inquire, why wasn’t it done the other way?” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.” – Harry Truman

”The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.“- Kenneth Blanchard

”A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not.“- Unknown Author

“To lead people, walk beside them … As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‘We did it ourselves’.”- Lao Tzu

“The best [leader] is the one who has sense enough to pick excellent men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“A excellent leader takes a small more than his share of the blame, a small less than his share of the credit.” – Arnold H. Glasgow

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“Fantastic hopes make fantastic men.”
- Thomas Fuller

“Hope is a waking dream.”
- Aristotle

“The men who build the future are those who know that greater things are yet to come,
and that they themselves will help bring them about.  Their minds are illuminated by the
blazing sun of home.  They never stop to doubt.  They haven’t time.”
- Melvin J. Evans

“There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so fantastic, no tonic so powerful as expectation
of something tomorrow.”
- Orison S. Marden

“Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful,
as hope.  Without hope men are only half alive.  With hope they dream and reckon and work.”
- Charles Sawyer

“Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to glide, but the bumble bee doesn’t
know it so it goes on flying anyway.”
- Mary Kay Ash

“Most of the vital 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

“If you have a lemon, make lemonade.”
- Howard Gossage

“Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the
same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously
heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is excellent.”
- Vaclav Havel

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Life is not merely being alive, but being well.
– Martial, 66 AD, Epigrams

We know a fantastic deal more about the causes of disease  than we do about the causes of
health.
– M. Scott Peck, TRLT

In nature there are neither rewards nor punihments – there are only consequences.
– Robert G. Ingersol

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other  kind of happiness.
– Schopenhauer, Arthur

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by
his thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
– Hippocrates

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all  liberties.
– Henri-Frederic Amiel 1828-1881

Happiness is nothing more than excellent health and a terrible memory.
– Albert Schweitzer

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
– Mark Twain

Inaction, save as a measure of recuperation between bursts of activity, is painful and dan-
gerous to the healthy organism – in fact, it is nearly impossible. Only the dying can he really
idle.
-  H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)

I know a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty than they have ever been before, because
a lot of their dread is gone.
– Robert Bly

For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to cel-
ebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape
from reality.
– Nathaniel Branden

Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
– Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)

Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be
pleased.
-  Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
-  Aristotle (384-322 BC)

Having excellent health is very different from only being not sick.
– Seneca The Younger, 50 AD

A young man with excellent health and a poor appetite can save up money.
– James Montgomery Bailey

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“Work like You don’t need the money. Like like You’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.” – Mark Twain

“What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” – Colin Powell

“I am the master of My own faith and the captain of My life.” - William Ernest Henley

“All the simple things used to be hard.” – Thomas Fuller

“The difference between a successful person and others is enough of strength, enough of knowledge.” – Author Unknown

“The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.” – Alan Ashley-Pitt

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If You reckon about that, You’ll do things differently.” – Warren Buffett

“Whatever thought by mind, can be achieved” – W. Clement Stone

“We are disturbed, not by the happening things, but by our personal thought to those things” – Epictetus

“The critical ingredient is getting off Your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have thoughts, but there are few who choose to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The right entrepreneur is a doer.” - Nolan Bushnell

“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

“The Greatest Power human kind have is the power to make a choice” – J. Martin Kohe

“Hope for the winning, and You will get it.” – Presto Bradley

“To be successful, You must choose exactly what You want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.” – Bunker Hunt

“You just can’t beat the person who always try.” -Author Unknown

“Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I’ll give You a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I’ll give You a stock clerk.” - J.C. Penney

“Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.” – William James

“I have failed over and over again – that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan

“All You have to do to achieve Your goals are already done by You. Believe it.” - Law of Attraction

“Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if He is reaching out and striving for his goals.” – Aristotle

“If You are never frightened, embarrassed or hurt, it means You never take chances.” – Julia Soul

“Every man is free to rise as far as He’s able or willing, but the degree to which He thinks determines the degree to which He’ll rise.” – Ayn Rand

“It is not how much We like it, but how much We delight in it.” – Charles H. Spurgeon

“The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.” – Sir William Osler

“The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.” – Peter Drucker

“They who have done huge things and have a very successful life are they who have had imagination about their life now, in the past.” – Lemy Yusento

“Life without friends is like death without witnesses.” - Spanish Proverb

“A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspired the power and energy to get it done.” – Ralph Lauren

“What the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” – Robert F. Kennedy

“Success is living up to Your potential. That’s all. Wake up with a smile and go after life … live it, delight in it, taste it, smell it, feel it.” – Joe Knapp

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