"If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today."
— Lou Holtz

Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.
— Roger Crawford

Money and power are not your true rewards. Your name, your principles, your impeccable standards, your virtuous conduct, and remains an influence with others long after you are gone. - Jason Hartman

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now."
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.
- William A. Foster

The best way to predict the future is to create it."
— Peter F. Drucker

"There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and having to say something."
— John Dewey

The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.

‎"Failure is simply an opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.", Henry Ford

All you see in your world is the outcome of your idea about it."
— Neale Donald Walsch: Spiritual author

"The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.", John Wooden

"You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you", Dale Carnegie

"Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire", Dale Carnegie

"One hour per day of study will put you at the top of your field within three years. Within five years you'll be a national authority. In seven years, you can be one of the best people in the world at what you do."
— Earl Nightingale: Was a motivational author and speaker

"Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.", Osho

"Don't mistake activity with achievement.", John Wooden

"In order to be irrplaceable, one must always be different.", Coco Chanel

"During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams", Tupac Shakur

The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.
- Walter Wriston

"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.", Marilyn Monroe

"Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.", Oprah Winfrey

"You can have brilliant ideas, but if you cannot get them across, your ideas will not get you anywhere."
— Lee Iacocca: Businessman, author, former CEO of Chrysler Corporation

"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?", Vincent Van Gogh

"There are no accidents... there is only some purpose that we haven't yet understood."
— Deepak Chopra: Speaker and writer on spirituality and mind-body topics

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."
— Norman Vincent Peale: Was a minister and author of inspirational books

"Ideas come from everything", Alfred Hitchcock

"Our life is what our thoughts make it.", Marcus Aurelius

"Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.", Jim Rohn

"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.", Henry Ford

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.", Franklin D.Roosevelt

"If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done."
— Norman Vincent Peale: Was a minister and author of inspirational books

"Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought."
— Napoleon Hill: Was a lecturer and author of books on achieving success

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.", Walt Whitman

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
- Bill Gates

"You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible."
— Deepak Chopra

"People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.", Bob Dylan

"We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives", John F. Kennedy

"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.", Henry David Thoreau

"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.", John Wooden

"Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.", Malcolm X

"In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore… they had better aim at something high."
— Henry David Thoreau: Was an author, poet, naturalist, and philosopher

If change is happening on the outside faster than on the inside the end is in sight.
- Jack Welch

"You don't become what you want, you become what you believe", Oprah Winfrey

"The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.", Napoleon Hill

"I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.", Abraham Lincoln

"The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.", Warren Buffett

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."
— Vincent van Gogh: Was a Dutch post-Impressionist artist

"The great secret of success in life is for a man to be ready when his opportunity comes."
— Benjamin Disraeli: Was England’s prime minister

"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking."
Henry Ford, 07/30/1863 - 04/07/1947
Founder of the Ford Motor Company

"To live is the rarest thing in the world.
Most people exist, that is all."
— Oscar Wilde: Was an Irish writer and poet

"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."
— William Blake: Was an English poet, printmaker, and artist

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
Albert Einstein, 03/14/1879 - 04/18/1955
Nobel Prize Laureate (Physics)

"The best way to persuade people is with your ears—by listening to them."
— Dean Rusk: Was secretary of state under Kennedy and Johnson

"Trying to change the outer is like seeing your unshaven face in the mirror and trying to shave the mirror."
— Joe Vitale: Bestselling author and co-star of The Secret movie

Maybe you are here on earth to learn that life is what you make of it, and it's to be enjoyed."
— Dick Sutphen: Psychic researcher, hypnotist, author

I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in.
- Anita Roddick

"The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same."
— Carlos Castaneda: Was an anthropologist and author

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
- Alvin Toffler

‎"I am grateful for all of my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties." -- J.C. Penney, businessman

"Having a why—a powerful, compelling reason—is the one thing no one can give you."
— Stephen Pierce

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.
- Brian Tracy

"Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. What you see reflects your thinking. And your thinking but reflects your choice of what you want to see."
— Quote from A Course in Miracles

"Never let what you cannot do stop
you from doing what you CAN do!"
— Stephen Pierce: Internet marketer and author

If I had to sum up in one word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.
- Lee Iacocca

Fortune favors the brave. -- Publilius Terence

A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.
- Suze Orman

"If you are not willing to risk the unusual,
you will have to settle for the ordinary."
— Jim Rohn: Was an entrepreneur and motivational author and speaker

"You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."
— Zig Ziglar: Motivational author and speaker

"Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won't, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can't." ~ Unknown

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.
- Victor Kiam

"Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started."
— David Allen: Management consultant, trainer, and author

"People keep looking outside themselves for the money. It's inside."
— Stephen Pierce: Internet marketer, author, speaker

Never give up. Learning from failure is an essential part of the entrepreneur's experience.
- Rachel Elnaugh

"It doesn't matter where you are coming from.
All that matters is where you are going."
— Brian Tracy: Self-help author, speaker, and lecturer

"The most important thing for a young man is to establish credit—a reputation and character."
— John D. Rockefeller: Was an industrialist and philanthropist

‎"It's what we do regularly -- every day, without fail -- that determines what we gain or lose." Coy Eklund

Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.
- Brian Tracy

"Nurture great thoughts, for you will never go higher than your thoughts."
— Benjamin Disraeli: Was a British prime minister, parliamentarian, and author

Find the things you like to do. Life is short, and it doesn't make sense if you don't love what you are doing.
- Eric Daniels

Leadership comes through respect, and a large part of respect is liking someone.
- Carol Leonard

"Think big and don't listen to people who tell you it can't be done. Life's too short to think small."
— Tim Ferriss: Author, entrepreneur, and public speaker

If the business is going well it's nothing to do with you and if it's going badly then it's all your fault.
- Lord Levene

"Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality."
— Earl Nightingale: Was a US motivational writer and author

"If you realized how powerful your thoughts are,
you would never think a negative thought."
— Peace Pilgrim: Born Mildred Norman, was a peace activist and spiritual leader

"Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted."
— Denis Waitley: Motivational speaker and author

Success is down to perseverance, ability, skills and experience, but it is also about being given an opportunity.
- Leigh Clifford

If I had the choice of hiring someone with connections or someone with skills and talent, I'd go with the latter.
- Chip Goodyear

"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: Was a personal success author and lecturer

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.
- Aristotle Onassis

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
- David Brinkley

"People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life.
I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive."
— Joseph Campbell: Was a writer and lecturer on mythology

"Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake."
— Paramahansa Yogananda: Was an Indian yogi and guru

Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.
- Alan Sugar

"My father instilled in me that if you don't see things happening the way you want them to, you get out there and make them happen."
— Susan Powter: Motivational speaker, dietitian, personal trainer, author

In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.
- Warren Buffet

"We are not human beings on a spiritual journey.
We are spiritual beings on a human journey."
— Dr. Stephen Covey: Best-selling author and professor

We do not go to work only to earn an income, but to find meaning in our lives. What we do is a large part of what we are.
- Alan Ryan

"As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is."
— Ram Dass: Spiritual Teacher

If there is a difference between you and, it may simple be that I get up every day and have a chance to do what I love to do, every day.  If you want to learn anything from me, this is the best advice I can give you.
~ Warren Buffet

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