Each of us will one day be judged by our standard of life, not by our standard of living; by our measure of giving, not by our measure of wealth; by our simple goodness, not by our seeming greatness. ~William Arthur Ward

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. ~Martin Luther King

The message is clear: plan with attitude, prepare with aptitude, participate with servitude, receive with gratitude, and this should be enough to separate you from the multitudes. ~Krish Dhanam

A winner is big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. ~John Maxwell

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. ~Joe Sabah

Regardless of your lot in life, you can build something beautiful on it. ~Zig Ziglar

Decision is the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made nothing happens.
~Wilfred A. Peterson

You might not be what you say you are, but what you say, you are. ~Zig Ziglar

When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work. ~George Bernard Shaw

If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one. ~Cavett Robert

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people. ~Barbara Bush

What I hear I forget. What I see I remember. What I do, I know. ~Chinese Proverb

I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you. ~Blaise Pascal

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. ~Vince Lombardi

It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
~W. Somerset Maugham

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. ~Saint Basil

Life is like a game of tennis; the player who serves well seldom loses. ~Anonymous

Dreams get you started; discipline keeps you going. ~Jim Rohn

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. ~Ronald E. Osborn

You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want. ~Zig Ziglar

Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson

I've failed over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. ~Michael Jordan

When the tide goes out, you see who's swimming naked. ~Warren Buffett

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration. ~Thomas A. Edison

If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. ~Thomas A. Edison

If you don’t know where you’re going – any road will take you there. ~Alice in Wonderland

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. ~Edward de Bono

When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves. 
~Anthony J. D'Angelo

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.  ~John Dewey

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ~Thomas A. Edison

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. ~Thomas A. Edison

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.  ~Elbert Hubbard

Getting caught is the mother of invention. ~Robert Byrn

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. ~Sir Winston Churchill

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. ~Vince Lombardi

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for; but rather something to be achieved. ~William Jennings Bryan

Those on top of the mountain did not fall there. ~Anonymous

If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.
~Arthur C. Clarke

Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development.
~Julius Frontinus

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.  ~Ayn Rand

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.  ~Eva Young

The less skillfully you think, the more others will think for you. ~Anonymous

Having a vision for your life allows you to live out of hope, rather than out of your fears.
~Stedman Graham

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.  ~Jack Penn

Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently. ~William A. Ward

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal. ~Elbert Hubbard

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' ~George Bernard Shaw

It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. ~Somerset Maugham

None of our men are "experts."  We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job.  A man who knows a job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient he is.  Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible.  The moment one gets into the "expert" state of mind a great number of things become impossible.  ~Henry Ford, Sr.

Wherever you go, there you are. ~Anonymous

Everything comes too late for those who only wait. ~Elbert Hubbard

Shoot for the moon.  Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.  ~Les Brown

One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it. 
~Sidney Howard

If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. 
~Lawrence J. Peter

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.  ~Henry Ford

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.  ~Samuel Johnson

Goals are dreams with deadlines.  ~Diana Scharf Hunt

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.  ~Doug Larson

The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.  ~Charles DeLint

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music. ~Ronald Reagan

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. ~Henry Ford

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.  ~Thomas Henry Huxley

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.  ~Jack Penn

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.  Now put the foundations under them.  ~Henry David Thoreau

Before we build a better mousetrap, we need to find out if there are any mice out there.
~Yogi Berra

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion.  You must set yourself on fire. 
~Arnold H. Glasow

The important thing is to strive towards a goal which is not immediately visible.  That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit. 
 ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, translated from French by Lewis Galantière

Sometimes the path you're on is not as important as the direction you're heading.  ~Kevin Smith

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.  ~Bruce Feirstein

If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up. 
 ~J.M. Power

Anger is the only thing to put off till tomorrow. ~Slovakian Proverb

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single Oy. ~Author Unknown

A deadline is negative inspiration.  Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.  ~Rita Mae Brown

Life's problems wouldn't be called "hurdles" if there wasn't a way to get over them. 
~Author Unknown

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.  ~T.S. Eliot

I love deadlines.  I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.  ~Douglas Adams

God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow in them.  ~Author Unknown

Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.  ~C.D. Jackson

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.  ~Author Unknown

Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.  ~Adolph Monod

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.  ~Ayn Rand

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.  ~Woody Allen

Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated? ~Author Unknown

Life is full of obstacle illusions.  ~Grant Frazier

It is never too late to be who you might have been.  ~George Eliot

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.  ~Eva Young

The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle.  ~Author Unknown

I don't care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don't harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you're never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants.  ~Zig Ziglar

The impossible is often the untried.  ~Jim Goodwin

How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to? 
 ~Anthony Robbins

Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes.  ~Author Unknown

When I was a Boy Scout, we played a game when new Scouts joined the troop.  We lined up chairs in a pattern, creating an obstacle course through which the new Scouts, blindfolded, were supposed to maneuver.  The Scoutmaster gave them a few moments to study the pattern before our adventure began.  But as soon as the victims were blindfolded, the rest of us quietly removed the chairs.  I think life is like this game.  Perhaps we spend our lives avoiding obstacles we have created for ourselves and in reality exist only in our minds.  We're afraid to apply for that job, take violin lessons, learn a foreign language, call an old friend, write our Congressman - whatever it is that we would really like to do but don't because of personal obstacles.  Don't avoid any chairs until you run smack into one.  And if you do, at least you'll have a place to sit down. 
~Pierce Vincent Eckhart

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is best from the top.  ~Arnold Bennett

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.  ~George Lucas

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

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.  ~Henry Ford

Don't say you don't have enough time.  You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.  ~Life's Little Instruction Book

Try not.  Do or do not.  There is no try.  ~Yoda

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.  ~Beverly Sills

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.  ~Henry Ford

The vision must be followed by the venture.  It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.  ~Vance Havner

Don't waste time learning the "tricks of the trade."  Instead, learn the trade.  ~Attributed to both James Charlton and H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

If it came true, it wasn't much of a dream.  ~Mignon McLaughlin

Of course I'm ambitious.  What's wrong with that?  Otherwise you sleep all day.  ~Ringo Starr

Hell!  There ain't no rules around here!  We're trying to accomplish somep'n. 
~Thomas Alva Edison

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers.  But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.  ~Sarah Ban Breathnach

Know your limits, but never stop trying to exceed them.  ~Author Unknown

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.  ~Andre Gide

Breathe in. Breathe out. Breathe in. Breathe out. Forget this and attaining Enlightenment will be the least of your problems. ~Author Unknown

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. 
~Peter Drucker

Nothing interferes with my concentration.  You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up.  Well, maybe once.  ~Isaac Asimov

There is one quality more important than "know-how" and we cannot accuse the United States of any undue amount of it.  This is "know-what" by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our purposes are to be.  ~Norbert Wiener

If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it over.  ~Author Unknown

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance.  In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? - the cuckoo clock.  ~Graham Greene & Orson Wells

The only thing that has to be finished by next Tuesday is next Monday.  ~Jennifer Yane

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.  ~Harry S. Truman

The greatest dreams are always unrealistic.  ~Will Smith

Out of the strain of the doing, into the peace of the done. ~Julia Woodruff

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. 
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet.  ~Author Unknown

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal. 
 ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Map out your future, but do it in pencil. ~Jon Bon Jovi

You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.  ~Charles C. Noble

We're still not where we're going, but we're not where we were.  ~Natash Jasefowitz

In the measurement world, we set a goal and strive to achieve it.  In the universe of possibility, we set the context and let life unfold.  ~B. Zander

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.  ~Pearl S. Buck

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.  ~Elbert Hubbard

If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time.  ~Author Unknown

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living.  Satisfaction is death. 
~George Bernard Shaw

When the horse is dead, get off.  ~Author Unknown

Vision without action is a daydream.  Action with without vision is a nightmare. 
 ~Japanese Proverb

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody.  There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it.  Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.  Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's job.  Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it.  It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anyone could have.  ~Author Unknown

Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours. 
~Doug Larson

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew like hell. ~Peter Brock

One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.  ~Thomas Fuller

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.  ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If you are not afraid to face the music, you may someday lead the band. ~Spuk Tiding

The best and most beautiful things in life cannot be seen, not touched, but are felt in the heart. ~Helen Keller

All men dream:  but not equally.  Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity:  but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.  ~T.E. Lawrence

When people say to me:  "How do you do so many things?"  I often answer them, without meaning to be cruel:  "How do you do so little?"  It seems to me that people have vast potential.  Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks.  Yet most people don't.  They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.  ~Philip Adams

Life's journey is like a walk down a long hallway with a cup of coffee in your hand. You can spill some and make a mess and still have a cup that's plenty full. ~Merry Wheaton

Well done is better than well said. ~Benjamin Franklin

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its' pants on.
~Winston Churchill

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
~Nelson Mandela

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

~Mother Teresa

Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today. ~Abraham Lincoln

There are people who prefer to say 'Yes' and people who prefer to say 'No.' Those who say Yes are rewarded by the adventures they have, and those who say No are rewarded by the safety they attain. ~Keith Johnstone

We must become the change we wish to see in the world. ~Mahatma Gandhi

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. ~George Washington

The time is always right to do what is right. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. ~Dwight Eisenhower

All the adversity I've had in my life, has strengthened me. You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. ~Walt Disney

It is better to light the candle than to curse the darkness. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. ~Vince Lombardi

What got you here, won’t get you there. ~Author Unknown

If you live each day as if it’s your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right. ~Author Unknown

When a man knocks you down, bite him in the leg. You Just Don’t Quit! ~Author Unknown