"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt." -- William Shakespheare "Vision is the art of seeing things invisible." -- Jonathon Swift "Our plans miscarry if they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind." -- Seneca "Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." -- Goethe "Judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them." -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg "There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth -- not going all the way, and not starting." -- Buddha "Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction." -- Anne Frank "Admitting error clears the score, and proves you wiser than before." -- Arthur Guiterman "Never discourage anyone... who continually makes progress, no matter how slow." -- Aristotle "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." -- James Joyce "We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee." -- Marian Wright Edelman "If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate." -- Thomas Watson, Sr. "Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive." -- Jesse Jackson "Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run." -- Rudyard Kipling "If you lose an hour in the morning, you have to hunt for it the rest of the day." -- Chinese Proverb "I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work." -- Ben Franklin "Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it." -- Helen Keller "We must all wage an intense, lifelong battle against the constant downward pull. If we relax, the bugs and weeds of negativity will move into the garden and take away everything of value." -- Jim Rohn "Don't water your weeds." -- Harvey Mackay "Let criticism motivate you." -- Jan Ruhe "Knowing how to learn fast is the key to rapid personal growth and quick sales success. Develop your powers of focus and concentration." -- Tom Hopkins "Training teaches people to follow prescriptions. Education teaches people to make choices." -- Nido Qubein "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 "If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around." -- Jim Rohn "Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears." -- Brian Tracy "You can't have everything...where would you put it." -- Stephen Wright "That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest." -- Henry David Thoreau "I am a big believer in the 'mirror test.' All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best." -- John McKay "When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace." -- J. Lubbock "The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes." -- Benjamin Disraeli "One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared." -- Merlin Olsen |