"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing — that's why we recommend it daily."
— Zig Ziglar: Author and motivational speaker

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
- Albert Camus

People do not follow uncommitted leaders. Commitment can be displayed in a full range of matters to include the work hours you choose to maintain, how you work to improve your abilities, or what you do for your fellow workers at personal sacrifice.
- Stephen Gregg

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.
- Willa A. Foster

"Listen to your life. All moments are key moments."
— Frederick Buechner: Writer and theologian

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... but are felt in the heart."
— Helen Keller: Was a blind and deaf author and lecturer

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
— Albert Einstein: Was a theoretical physicist

If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings--and put compensation as a carrier behind it--you almost don't have to manage them.
- Jack Welch

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

The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does.
- Daisy Bates

"You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself."
— Harvey Firestone: Tire executive

"Never let yesterday use up too much of today."
— Will Rogers: Humorist

The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose. - E.M. Gray

"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."
— John D. Rockefeller: Was an American industrialist and philanthropist

I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance. - Steve Jobs

“The biggest lesson I have ever learned is the stupendous importance of what we think. If I knew what you think, I would know what you are, for your thoughts make you what you are; by changing our thoughts, we can change our lives.” — Dale Carnegie

“Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.” — Napoleon Hill

“You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.” — James Allen

“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”
— Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“All improvement in your life begins with an improvement in your mental pictures.”
— Brian Tracy