The secret of getting ahead is getting started

Mark Twain

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

James Allen

Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way. Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past

Brian Tracy

Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fail

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savoured.

Earl Nightingale

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“You can’t be a winner and be afraid to lose.” — Charles Lynch

“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they may
have planned for you? Not much.” — Jim Rohn

“Something must die in order to grow – your old habits, your old self image, your old thinking, your old life…
must be weeded out for the seeds of success to grow.” — Doug Firebaugh

“For many people, change is more threatening than challenging. They see it as the destroyer of what is familiar
and comfortable rather than the creator of what is new and exciting.” — Nido Qubein

“The most practical, beautiful, workable philosophy in the world won’t work – if you won’t.” — Zig Ziglar

“We all need lots of powerful long-range goals to help us past the short-term obstacles.” — Jim Rohn

“Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in
judgment, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to
either fortune or failure.” — Jim Rohn

“The trouble with many plans is that they are based on the way things are now. To be successful, your personal
plan must focus on what you want, not what you have.” — Nido Qubein

“Where will you be in five years? Develop a plan, and then activate that plan to put yourself where you want to
be in five years. Be sure to update your five-year plan at least annually in order to stay ahead of the game.” —
Tom Hopkins

“Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once
you’ve lost it, you can never get it back.” — Harvey Mackay

“Teaching people skills without giving them a vision for a better future — a vision based on common values — is
only training.” — Nido Qubein

“Sales people should take lessons from their kids. What does the word ‘no’ mean to a child? Almost nothing.” —
Jim Rohn

“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they may
have planned for you? Not much.” — Jim Rohn

“One of the marks of superior people is that they are action-oriented. One of the marks of average people is that
they are talk-oriented.” –Brian Tracy

“The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more
important than the events that occur.” — Vince Lombardi

“The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.” —
Benjamin Disraeli

“List 20 things you are going to do in the next 30 days to fast-start your sales career. Then take action on at least
one of them.” — Brian Tracy

“Time is on your side…always has been….but which side is it on? Winning…or Losing?…Your choice.” — Dr.
Maxwell Maltz

“99% of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.” — George Washington Carver

“When you have a clear purpose, you won’t have time for negativity.” — Mark Victor Hansen

“When you’ve got something to prove, there’s nothing greater than a challenge.” — Terry Bradshaw

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

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“If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always
pays the best interest.” — Benjamin Franklin

“Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and
less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and
stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.” — Mark Victor
Hansen

“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a
solution everybody can understand.” — General Colin Powell

“No matter what size the bottle, the cream always came to the top.” — Charles Wilson

“We get paid for bringing value to the marketplace. It takes time to bring value to the marketplace, but we get
paid for the value, not the time.” — Jim Rohn

“You do not lead by hitting people over the head–that’s assault, not leadership.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Opportunities? They are all around us…there is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to
discover it.” — Orison Swett Marden, 1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine

“We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.” — Lee Iococca

“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” — Benjamin Disraeli

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” —
Thomas Edison

“A boat doesn’t go forward if each one is rowing their own way.” — Swahili Proverb

“You may delay, but time will not.” — Benjamin Franklin

“The majority of people meet with failure because they lack the persistence to create new plans to take the place
of failed plans.” — Mark Victor Hansen

“Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim, nor even extra brightness, but perseverance all can have.”
– Woodrow Wilson

“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in very difficulty.” — Winston
Churchill

“You are always free to choose what you do with your life. To make changes in your future, make new choices
today.” — Brian Tracy

“The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then
focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we’ve already achieved them.” —
Denis Waitley

“Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.” — Sir James Dewar

“Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his
mind.” — Leonardo da Vinci

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.” —
Abraham Lincoln

“Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom
otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don’t hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude
to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.” — Zig Ziglar

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

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It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best motivation is self-motivation.  The guy says, “I wish someone would come by and turn me on.” What if they don’t show up?  You’ve got to have a better plan for your life.
Jim Rohn

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide

Our strength grows out of our weakness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.
Brian Tracy

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.  You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

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“We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.” — Stevie Wonder

“Most time is wasted, not in hours, but in minutes. A bucket with a small hole in the bottom gets just as empty as
a bucket that is deliberately kicked over.” — Paul J. Meyer

“Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through
their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their
greatest success.” — Stephen Covey

“If your cup runneth over, expand your cup.” — Mark Victor Hansen

“Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained
enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. — Paul J. Meyer

“Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible.” —
Robert Schuller

“Total, unconditional acceptance of yourself is the first step in building a positive self-image.” — Nido Qubein

“The most influential person who will talk to you all day is you, so you should be very careful about what you say
to you!” — Zig Ziglar

“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.” —
Johann Wolfgang von Goeth

“We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion
to our service.” — Earl Nightingale

“Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has an idea. It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does
something about it that makes a difference.” — Nolan Bushnell

“The fact is that, to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the
cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.” — Richard Cushing

“All of us are watchers — of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway — but few are observers. Everyone
is looking, not many are seeing.” — Peter M. Leschak

“Superior people take both the credit and the blame for everything that happens to them.” — Brian Tracy

“A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops
trying.” –Napoleon Hill

“Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.” — Brian Tracy

“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

“The chief distinguishing characteristic of leaders is Intensity of Purpose.” — Brian Tracy

“Try? There is no try! There is only do or not do.” — Yoda, Jedi Warrior

“You cannot increase the quality or quantity of your achievement or performance except to the degree of which
you increase your ability to use your time effectively.” — Brian Tracy

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

“There is no chance, no destiny, no fate that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined
soul.” — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Dare to be what you ought to be; dare to be what you dream to be; dare to be the finest you can be. The more
you dare, the surer you will be of gaining just what you dare!” — Norman Vincent Peale 

“I am not bound to win but I am bound to be true; I am not bound to succeed but am
bound to live up to what light I have.” — Abraham Lincoln

“The basic goal-reaching principle is to understand that you go as far as you can see, and
when you get there you will always be able to see farther.” — Zig Ziglar

“Success equals goals; all else is commentary” — Brian Tracy

“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about
the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
- Buddha

“Make your decisions for your tomorrows not just your today’s.” — Patricia Fripp

“There are those of us who are always about to live. We are waiting until things change,
until there is more time, until we are less tired, until we get a promotion, until we settle
down — until, until, until. It always seems as if there is some major event that must occur
in our lives before we begin living.” — George Sheehan

“Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?” —
Jimmy Johnson

“Time has no favorites…and it doesn’t become kinder to one over another…it just gives
us back…what we put into it…” — Doug Firebaugh

“The first qualification for success in my view is a strong work ethic.” — Henry Ford

“Your heart is the power core of all your success…no matter what you are desiring, if your heart isn’t in it…then
you will be without it.” — Doug Firebaugh

“What have you always wanted to do but been afraid to attempt? Whatever it is, it may be your greatest
opportunity in life.” — Brian Tracy

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

“Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.” — W.C. Fields

“People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.” — Harvey Mackay

“Confident people are willing to take risks; people who take risks develop self-confidence.” — Brian Tracy

“The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and
third, common sense. — Thomas Edison

“Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.” — H. Jackson Browne

“One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears – by listening to them.” — Dean Rusk

“The only difference between a Good Day and a Bad Day Is your ATTITUDE!” — Dennis S. Brown

“No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself
or your life that you want to change.” — Barbara De Angelis

“Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” — Henry Ford 

Every human has four endowments- self-awareness, conscience,
independent will and creative imagination.
These give us the ultimate human freedom…
The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Stephen Covey

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination,
Imagination is the workshop of your mind,
capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
Napoleon Hill

There is just one life for each of us:  our own.
Euripides

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work.
Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities.
Dale Carnegie

There is no such thing in anyone’s life as an unimportant day.
Alexander Woollcott

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

“To move the world we must first move ourselves.” – Socrates

“Be   very   careful  what   you   say   to   yourself   because   someone   very   important   is listening… You!” – John Assaraf

“Winners are  the ones who  really  listen  to  the  truth of   their  hearts.”  – Sylvester Stallone

“The secret of success is consistency of purpose.” – Benjamin Disraeli

“Don’t just dream it. Be it!” – Richard O’brian

“He has achieved success who has   lived well,   laughed often and  loved much.”   - Bessie Anderson Stanley

“The key to happiness is having dreams; the key to success is making them come  true.” – James Allen

“All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.” – Orison Swett  Marden

“Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.” – Jim Rohn

“You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward  what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing  it to master you.” – Brian Tracy

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination
encircles the world.” – Albert Einstein

“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts,
we make the world.” – Buddha

“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and
then do it.” – Henry Ford

“It   is   not  what  we   get.  But  who  we   become,  what  we   contribute…   that   gives
meaning to our lives.” – Anthony Robbins

“Dream  lofty dreams,  and as you dream,  so you shall  become.  Your vision  is  the
promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at
last unveil.” – James Allen

“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.” – Anthony Robbins

“Begin with the end in mind.” – Dr. Stephen Covey

“Develop an attitude of  gratitude, and give thanks  for everything that happens to
you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger
and better than your current situation.” – Brian Tracy